What the corpus says about Night of the Living Dead (1968)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Night of the Living Dead (1968) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Night of the Living Dead (1968) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:03:15 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Night of the Living Dead ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read) · lineage · Hooper saw the line down the block for Night of the Living Dead and decided to make a horror film with his own ideas about Vietnam-era America. · "Toby Hooper, who directed Chainsaw Massacre, went and saw Night of the Living Dead."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:48:17 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Night of the Living Dead ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · lineage · The first girl in Night of the Living Dead is also the final girl, chased through the cemetery, and Miasma plays with that. · "I mean, candy asthma has fun with that too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Night of the Living Dead · theme · Party movie plus zombie-style siege movie. · "marrying it to Night of Living Dead is pretty fucking potent."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:26:47 · Patton Oswalt (0.50)] Night of the Living Dead ↔ Anything for Jackson · professional-first filmmakers · The Anything for Jackson makers, like Romero, were working filmmakers who then made a genre film. · "it's the same George Romero thing of, I'm just an industrial filmmaker."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:21:40 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Friday the 13th ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The in-film franchise is very much Friday the 13th while also running through the paces of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. · "It is very much Friday the 13th, but it's also gone through some of the same paces as Scream, and I know what you did last summer and things like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:30:52 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ The Last House on the Left · programming · Chris picks Last House on the Left for a double feature as an equally disturbing snapshot of movie history. · "I'll probably go last house on the left, although it is equally disturbing"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:47:07 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · programming · Hitler-in-comedy debate: they just did Hitler in Last Crusade. · "We just did Hitler in Last Crusade."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:31:17 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Deliverance · programming · A guest pick for a double bill: road trip gone wrong. · "Oh, my God. Road trip gone wrong."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:06:44 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Pineapple Express · programming · Pineapple Express is the pick for best double feature with This Is the End. · "It's gotta be pineapple."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:30:53 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Sleepaway Camp ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the maker said so: interviews with Jane) · lineage · Sleepaway Camp is among the films in Miasma's DNA, along with Nightmare on Elm Street 2. · "I think the movies that are in this movie's DNA or that have come up in interviews"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:31:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read) · programming · Bill pairs it with Halloween to compare how much Halloween cribbed from Chainsaw. · "I went Halloween just to compare and contrast like how much Halloween, crib done, chainsaw, all that stuff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:07:20 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation · programming · Best comedy sequel chat: Christmas Vacation over European Vacation. · "Christmas vacation maybe."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes. · "Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:46:48 · unknown (0.30)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Friday borrowed the seemingly friendly helper who turns out hostile and the killer who keeps getting back up. · "a seemingly friendly helper who ends up being not friendly, the Texas chainsaw move."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:03:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Charlie Kaufman ⇒ This Is the End (the maker said so: came up in the research) · lineage · Goldberg said the film was meant to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman. · "He said the whole point of this movie, they're just trying to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:51:44 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ↔ The Cabin in the Woods · lineage · Some critics compare Miasma to Cabin in the Woods, which popped the hood on horror and elevated it into discourse. · "some people have compared can't be asthma to the Joss Whedon film to Cabin in the Woods, which is an interesting comparison."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:47:50 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · The cemetery-warning figure at the start of Chain Saw parallels Ralph. · "The guy in the beginning at the cemetery at Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he kind of warns everybody of what's to come."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:03:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] This Is the End ↔ The Larry Sanders Show · lineage · Celebrities playing exaggerated versions of themselves with real insults leaking through is a Larry Sanders move. · "This has so many Larry Sanders moments where it's like, They're celebrities, but they're, they're playing like exaggerated or shticky versions of themselves"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:55:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] X ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · lineage · After X, Pearl and MaXXXine the self-referential riffing on rape revenge and slasher films hit a dead end, and Miasma rebuilds the bridge. · "we have kind of gotten to the conclusive point of self-referential riffing on rape revenge and slasher films"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:03:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read) · lineage · Halloween felt like it invented modern horror, but on rewatch Chainsaw is the real ground zero. · "whenever I watch Chainsaw, I'm like, no, actually this is ground zero."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:13:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read) · lineage · The movie grew out of the 8-minute short Rogen and Goldberg made. · "It was based on a short that, uh, Rogan and Goldberg did called Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:57:44 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · Miasma restages the sex, death, chase and catharsis of the classic final-girl structure differently from Texas Chain Saw. · "in a very different way than, you know, Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:17:18 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Ed Gein ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read) · lineage · The film was a little influenced by Ed Gein, whose skin masks and grave digging fascinated Hollywood. · "it was a little influenced by the great Ed Geen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:29:25 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] This Is the End ↔ Blood Red (unmade Pineapple Express 2) · lineage · The Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse homemade footage echoes the planned Pineapple Express 2, Blood Red. · "If they were going to make it, it was going to be blood red."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 1:14:37 · Gillian Anderson (0.90)] Sunset Boulevard ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Billy is partly a Sunset Boulevard figure, which Anderson played with in costuming, and the film acknowledges the Norma Desmond comparison itself. · "the Sunset Boulevard reference"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:41:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · The final girl running to Jason's mom for help copies Sally running to the gas station guy. · "Friday the 13th rips it off."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:03:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Pineapple Express ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read) · lineage · A weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express; Pineapple Express is the double feature pick. · "this is kind of like a weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express anyway."
[speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[speaker] Patton Oswalt · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · Watches The Killing repeatedly, loves noir and character actors, Timothy Carey stories, Matthau in Pelham 123, Albert Brooks and Adam Sandler's dramatic work, Shudder and the Corman-style ecosystem. Hates the method and the auteur theory. · stances: The method and the auteur theory both get in the way of the work; The Killing's characters are small-time crooks who aren't smart enough; Titles do real work, the killing is a double meaning; Genre outsiders like Shudder directors will be the next filmmakers
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Night of the Living Dead (1968); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Night of the Living Dead (1968) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.