What the corpus says about The Mist (2007)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Mist (2007) 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 Mist (2007) 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 — Patreon · Panic Room · 1:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ The Mist · craft · A host compares the stuck-until-it-resolves dread of Panic Room to The Mist. · "It's like, it's like, it's like the mist."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:45:33 · unknown (0.30)] The Mist ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · black-and-white CGI · The Mist's black-and-white cut makes perfectly professional CGI bugs read as vintage, like Part 8's black-and-white digital effects. · "It's also like the mist is kind of like that where you have these CGI bugs that look like perfectly professional CGI special effects, but in black and white."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Bird Box · programming · Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version. · "But I think this is the really well-done version of it."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:45:43 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Anchorman (Wake Up Ron Burgundy alt cut) · lineage · Lynch's deleted-scene habit is riffed as making his own Wake Up Ron Burgundy. · "Lynch loves wake up Ron Burgundy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:21:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read) · lineage · The convenience store was only seen inside, upstairs, in Fire Walk with Me; Part 8 shows its exterior and it is where nasty business happens. · "Wait, so we've been to the convenience store and in the past?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Succession · programming · As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession. · "but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:41:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.50)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Blue Velvet · lineage · The teen walking-and-talking scenes in the last 15 minutes recall Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern strolling in Blue Velvet, with Dern looking like she is from another decade. · "I always feel like the scenes where they're walking and talking remind me of the scenes of of com McLachlan, Lord Dern walking in blue velvet, that sort of innocent conversation."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Rope · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:50:51 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ⇒ On the Air (the host's read) · lineage · The woodsman wanting to be on the radio and finding the people find him boring is read as a callback to the Lynch-Frost sitcom On the Air. · "I'm like, oh, this is a callback to on the air, the Lynch Frost sitcom."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Lifeboat · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:17:19 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Eraserhead · theme · Orb imagery in Part 8 is traced to Lynch's earlier orb imagery such as Eraserhead. · "Sure, there's like eraser heads. Right, things like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Psycho · lineage · Panic Room is to Fight Club as Psycho is to North by Northwest: a small, single-location B movie after a big sprawling one. · "But really it's like, it's Hitchcock doing Psycho right after North by Northwest."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:02:28 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Celebrity Deathmatch · theme · As a ten-year-old the speaker treated every Celebrity Deathmatch episode as if it were Part 8, rewriting the rules of TV. · "I treated every episode of celebrity death match as if it were part 8 of Twin Peaks the Return, where I was like, the rules have been rewritten."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs. · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:29:58 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Captain Planet and the Planeteers · theme · The Giant dreaming a golden cloud that becomes Laura Palmer to go fight Bob is likened to Captain Planet. · "it is like it's some real Captain Planet shit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah). · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:34:19 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read) · theme · Part 8 finally ties up Jean Renault's season 2 claim that Cooper's arrival ruined Twin Peaks by showing the evil predates him. · "So like episode eight, finally, it's like we've tied up the genre now plotline from season two."
[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
[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 The Mist (2007); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Mist (2007) 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.