What the corpus says about The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) 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 The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) 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 Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:40:50 · unknown (0.35)] Babygirl ↔ The Killing of a Sacred Deer · theme · Both give Kidman characters with distinctive sexual habits. · "This movie, and Baby Girl have something in common about how Nicole Kidman's characters like to have sex."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:20:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Killing of a Sacred Deer ↔ Poor Things · theme · Sacred Deer is framed as Lanthimos's horror movie, in a run of one-per-genre films ending with the monster movie. · "that's also his horror movie."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] The Favourite ↔ The Killing of a Sacred Deer · contrast · The Favourite is in keeping with The Lobster but different from The Killing of a Sacred Deer. · "It is in keeping with the lobster, but it's like way different than a killing of a sacred deer."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:41:43 · unknown (0.35)] The Killing of a Sacred Deer ↔ The Invasion · people · Kidman again made two films in a year with the same actor, as with Daniel Craig. · "Another situation where she made 2 movies in the same year with the same actor, just like she had the invasion and the Golden Compass with Daniel Craig."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:26:17 · Joe Wright (0.95)] The Killing of a Sacred Deer ↔ Yorgos Lanthimos · craft · Wright is fascinated by how Lanthimos gets disassociated performances, reportedly from scripts translated literally from Greek. · "I'm fascinated by how he gets those strange, almost disassociated performances out of people."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:40:59 · unknown (0.30)] The Killing of a Sacred Deer ↔ Nicole Kidman · verdict · One of the favorite Yorgos films; yellow but not necessarily in. · "I love the killing of a sacred deer."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:26:09 · Joe Wright (0.95)] The Killing of a Sacred Deer · fun · His last great thing seen; he says it is deeply frightening on a subconscious level. · "deeply, deeply frightening on a deep psychological subconscious level."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:00:30 · unknown (0.30)] Babygirl ↔ Nicole Kidman · programming · A listener vote for the last spot is floated. · "What do you think if we put these other 10 things up for the public and they can have the 11th spot?"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:19:43 · Todd Haynes (0.65)] Todd Haynes ↔ Poor Things · programming · Haynes recently saw Poor Things and loved it, singling out Mark Ruffalo. · "I just saw poor things recently and man, I loved it."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:35:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] The Favourite ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Lanthimos films are read as his takes on familiar genres; The Favourite is his Mean Girls. · "Like the favorite is his version of Mean Girls."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:24:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Invasion of the Body Snatchers ⇒ The Invasion (the host's read) · lineage · It is a Body Snatchers remake, and that story always feels resonant. · "This is an invasion of the Body Snatchers remake directed by Oliver Hirschpiegel who directed Downfall, the film about Hitler."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:35:20 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl ↔ The Brutalist · programming · Reijn's last great thing seen is The Brutalist; Sean agrees it is his favorite of the year. · "I am obsessed with the brutalists."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:28:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Zone of Interest ↔ Poor Things · lineage · Five adapted-screenplay nominees are interesting recontextualizations of their sources, and Zone of Interest is the outside contender that is also one. · "The one on the outside, I think, is also a best picture contender that is also a recontextualization, which is the zone of interest."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Favourite ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Sean praises the Mean Girls reading, then says the film is really about power and lonely futility. · "The favorite is Mean Girls. I think that's super smart reading of that movie"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:41:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Dogtooth ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Both are about who gets to dictate the rules; Poor Things is described as a sequel to Dogtooth's fathers-and-language themes. · "It's like the sequel to that movie in some ways because the Godwin character"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:29:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Babygirl ↔ Secretary · lineage · The film that Babygirl is most often compared to. · "The movie that I've seen this movie compared to quite often is Secretary, have you seen Secretary?"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Bride of Frankenstein ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says the Frankenstein novel and the first two Frankenstein movies are major influences on Poor Things. · "the Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are, like, huge influences on this movie."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:04 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode) · lineage · Reijn set out to converse with the 90s and early-2000s sexual thrillers she loved but found sexist. · "I wanted to be in conversation with all the sexual thrillers that I so loved in the 90s and the early 2000s, but then I also thought were incredibly sexist and not human."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:18:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Alasdair Gray ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · The film is based on the Scottish author's novel, from which Lanthimos took liberties. · "this is actually based on a novel by Alice Dare Gray, the Scottish author."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:03:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Babygirl ↔ Hedda Gabler · theme · A speaker reads the movie's edges as Hedda Gabler-style constructs (transcript garbled). · "the further you get to the sides of some of the head of gabbler constructs, some of the robot concepts."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Barbie · theme · Both arrived as feminist coming-of-age stories about a created girl learning about the world, six weeks apart. · "it was about 6 weeks after the Barbie wave and there are some really obvious comparisons to be made here."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:18:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ The Substance · theme · Same year as The Substance; both are women-made films confronting an actress's aging, one literal, one metaphorical. · "it's an interesting time for this movie to come along in the same year as the substance where that movie makes the metaphorical literal."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:37:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ Fair Play · theme · The sex-in-American-movies topic was discussed in the Fair Play episode. · "We talked about it in the Fairplay episode last year."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:29:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Secretary · craft · A wide shot in the motel scene immediately recalls Secretary. · "There is like a, like a beautiful wide shot that you immediately do think of secretary."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:40:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ The Island of Dr. Moreau · theme · Godwin, fusing creatures on his island, is likened to a Dr. Moreau figure. · "he's kind of an, uh, an island of Dr. Moreau kind of figure"
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Joe Wright · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · Loves cinematic beauty, rhythm and music, minimalist composers, and 1970s-80s auteurs plus British TV drama. Can't stand being called painterly, box-office tracking, or superhero movies. A sucker for emotional sets, singalongs and performances from unusual actors. · stances: Film is most like music; it happens in time; Prefers cinematic to painterly; Doubt is a component of wisdom; Does not compare himself to other artists; Not snobbish about television
[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)

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 The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) 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.

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