What the corpus says about Unfriended (2014)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Unfriended (2014) 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 Unfriended (2014) 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 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:29:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Unfriended · contrast · Unlike Searching or Unfriended, being on a computer is not the point of Mercy, which is mostly action seen through grainy cameras. · "Because the movie is not like searching or unfriended, where kind of like being on the computer is the point of the movie that like you need to be on the computer to solve the crime."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:14:50 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Unfriended ↔ Jaws · contrast · Unfriended is exhausting and one-and-done, not a film to rewatch and study the way you would Jaws. · "I don't need to revisit that and study it like its Jaws"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:14:36 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Unfriended ↔ Agatha Christie · lineage · The screen-only chat setup works like an Agatha Christie whodunit in internet hyperdrive. · "it's essentially just like an Agatha Christie novel, but played out in this hyperdrive internet driven way"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:14:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Unfriended ↔ Blumhouse · industry · Unfriended fits the cheap, high-concept Blumhouse mold. · "Yeah, you can see that it's in that blumhouse mold that I was describing."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:14:17 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Unfriended · fun · The whole film plays on a laptop screen; Chris says it exhausts you because your brain tracks four panes of information at once. · "your brain can process 4 quadrants of information and can actually like listen to people while also watching a mouse clicking over different apps"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:01:39 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · programming · Bendis lives in Portland, where Raiders and Jaws play theaters every summer; his kids found both still work. · "I'm here in Portland where Raiders and Jaws plays on theaters, at least once a summer."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:20:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Minority Report ⇒ Mercy (the host's read) · lineage · Mercy's AI-as-justice-machine premise is an idea Minority Report explored earlier. · "Like minority report explores this idea of what if we use technology to better, like better control criminal activity in the world."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:46:35 · unknown (0.35)] Jaws ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Friday took Jaws' device of music for a villain you cannot see. · "the Jaws music for the villain you can't see."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:27:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Charles Bronson · lineage · They like January thrillers that are souped-up Bronson-style wrongly-accused movies; Mercy's problem is what underlies it. · "basically souped up Charles Bronson movies and Chris Pratt has a gun and is wrongly accused and needs to solve a crime."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jaws ⇒ Twister (the host's read) · lineage · Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie. · "The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:27:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Alfred Hitchcock · lineage · Wrongly-accused-man plots are Hitchcock territory; the plot is not the objection. · "Alfred Hitchcock made tons of movies like this."
[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."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:22:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Moneyball · theme · The film's gut-instinct-versus-data argument is framed as Moneyball. · "It's it's straight up moneyball."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:34:36 · unknown (0.40)] Jaws ⇒ Arachnophobia (the host's read) · lineage · Arachnophobia is Jaws with spiders. · "it's sort of like Jaws, but with spiders"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:29:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Mission Impossible (franchise) · craft · Mercy's phone-and-drone-camera look is likened to a franchise opening stretched to feature length. · "It's like the opening 3 minutes of a Mission Impossible movie for 96 minutes."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:25:32 · Bilge Ebiri (0.90)] Jaws ↔ Lincoln · theme · The slaps in Jaws and Lincoln show the shift from identifying with the slapped child to the anxious parent. · "So it's very much like almost like the humiliation of a little boy who's been slapped."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Michael Bay · craft · A truck chase in Mercy would be a standout if it were shot by Michael Bay, but is undercut by the screens. · "if it were Michael Bay, it would be the coolest sequence of the year for action filmmaking."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:27:19 · unknown (0.50)] To Live and Die in L.A. ↔ Jaws · theme · Scenes that gloss over a shocking event: the Reagan-building explosion in To Live and Die in L.A., the Kintner boy in Jaws, Loomis in Halloween. · "a guy explodes in the same building that that Ronald Reagan is giving a speech at, then the next scene is like, they don't even reference it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:58:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Lego Batman Movie ↔ Jaws · theme · The Phantom Zone fills with franchise monsters, including the Jaws shark and the Jurassic Park T-Rex. · "The shark from Jaws, the T-Rex from Jurassic Park."
[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] 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] 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] 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] 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 Unfriended (2014); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Unfriended (2014) 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.