What the corpus says about Body Double (1984)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Body Double (1984) 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 Body Double (1984) 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.

[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Body Double ⇒ American Psycho (the host's read) · lineage · American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double. · "it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:44:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Body Double · contrast · Body Double is pulp that deals with similar Hollywood grime and is fun, whereas Fosse could not treat it as pulp. · "But like, I mean, fossi, for better or worse, I don't think could view things as pulp."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:08:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Body Double · people · Body Double puts De Palma's sexual obsessions on the surface; Mission: Impossible keeps them under it for a mass audience. · "body double is, like, right on the surface."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:44:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Body Double · timeline · Melanie Griffith was Fosse's first choice; Body Double (her comeback) came right after. · "Bob Fossey wants Melanie Griffith."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:23:03 · unknown (0.40)] Melanie Griffith ↔ Body Double · career · Body Double was the first time a real director saw something more in Griffith. · "That's the 1st time, like a real director is like, no, no, there's something more here."
[pairs] Body Double ↔ Star 80 · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:02:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · Every scene of Star 80 is likened to the porno scene in Taxi Driver turned up to 75. · "Like every scene of this movie is like the porno scene in Taxi Driver, but amped up to 75."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:16:12 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ American Psycho · theme · Silver's rage is the 80s American Psycho kind. · "pours all of his 80s American psycho rage into it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Mission: Impossible · programming · 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day. · "So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Boogie Nights · theme · Star 80 produces the same turn-it-off discomfort as the firecracker scene in Boogie Nights. · "Combined with the firework, the firecracker scene in boogie nights."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read) · lineage · Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark. · "I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:07:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Anatomy of a Murder · theme · Concern for the ruined man instead of the woman echoes Anatomy of a Murder's rape-trial rhetoric. · "That reminds me of an anatomy of murder when they're prosecuting the, they're like, let's think about ruining a man's life before we convict this person of rape"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Fast and the Furious ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action. · "the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Kael's charge that Clockwork Orange was prurient and pitied only Alex is applied to Star 80 and Snyder. · "I think the only sympathy that you see from the filmmaker is with Paul Snyder."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Rififi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound. · "my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:16:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Kate Plays Christine · theme · Kate Plays Christine is cited as a film about the compulsion to tell tragic victims' stories and play them. · "it is a movie about an actor trying to play a tragic, you know, a person who killed herself on news."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Psycho ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Killing off Kristin Scott Thomas's star-billed character early mirrors Psycho killing Janet Leigh. · "it's completely Hitchcocky and it's killing Janet Lee after 40 minutes."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:23:50 · David Sims (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Cabaret · theme · Fosse's female characters like Sally Bowles and Honey Bruce got rich interior life, which Star 80 lacks. · "I would even argue, honey, Bruce, like, you know, who really is, like, pretty wonderful."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:46:08 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jaws · lineage · A political awards category was suggested, recalling a Jaws episode on Amity's campaign. · "between this and you outlining Quince campaign in Amity for the Jaws rewatchables, we should have some sort of political category here."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:28:09 · unknown (0.30)] Star 80 ↔ Peeping Tom · theme · Peeping Tom was also savaged on release but was later vindicated, unlike Star 80. · "Except Peeping Tom is like eventually kind of vindicated and this people were like, no, fuck you."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Topkapi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Langley heist is an homage to the Jules Dassin heist classics Topkapi and Rififi. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics of uh, top copy and uh, Rafifi."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:32:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lenny ⇒ Star 80 (the host's read) · craft · Star 80's interview framing/superstructure echoes Lenny's, and Lenny is the origin of the Chevy-Chase-style voice. · "This movie, you have the interview, this sort of superstructure that he loves so much"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jules Dassin ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Dassin's heist classics are the model for the Langley break-in. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics"
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Julie Klausner · latest sketch, Blank Check · Star 80 · A serious Fosse devotee who loves Cabaret, All That Jazz, Sweet Charity and Liza with a Z, and praises collaborations with women. She finds Star 80 powerful but ugly, a prurient pornographic film made by a man who will not look at the victim, and she is haunted by it. · stances: Star 80 is powerful but not great and not fabulous; It sexualizes violence against Stratton with no female point of view; Judge creative men by how they collaborate with women; Sweet Charity ranks above Star 80; Cabaret's restraint with Liza shows Fosse's best instincts
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[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 Body Double (1984); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Body Double (1984) 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.