What the corpus says about Straw Dogs (1971)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Straw Dogs (1971) 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 Straw Dogs (1971) 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 · ‘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 · Flesh+Blood · 1:04:11 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Straw Dogs · contrast · Unlike Straw Dogs, the assault scene implies the woman is taking power, not enjoying it. · "Something like Straw Dogs, where you're seeing an assault, and then he is sort of inferring that she's enjoying it, is very different than something like this"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:53:35 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Straw Dogs · violence compared · Fincher names Straw Dogs as challenging ideas of revenge. · "I holy respect straw dogs or even star 80."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:25:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Back to the Future · programming · Flesh+Blood opened Labor Day weekend 1985 when Back to the Future was number one. · "Back to the future?"
[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 — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:16:06 · Fran Hoepfner (0.40)] The Girl in the Spider's Web ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · lineage · Spider's Web is the reboot after Fincher's film; the speaker finds it ill advised to abandon Mara. · "especially when the thing that everyone liked most about this movie was that performance and how quickly they abandoned it."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:43:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Willow · lineage · The painted poster looks like fantasy-adventure posters of the era. · "it has this poster that looks like, you know, the poster for Willow or Legend"
[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 — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:49:09 · unknown (0.30)] Stieg Larsson ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The film is Zaillian's abridged adaptation of Larsson's novel, which loses nothing major. · "I think this is an excellent piece of adaptation that does not really, like, skip anything major."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:27:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Flesh and Blood ↔ The Loveless · theme · Both take a romanticized genre and show how gross it really was. · "Which is where I think this movie shares a similarity with the Loveless."
[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 — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The Fincher film is the American remake of the Swedish original; its director says he was not worried. · "Everyone who loves film will go see the original."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:05:02 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Strange Days · theme · Like Strange Days, the film treats sexual assault as psychological aftermath rather than a plot device. · "In the Strange Days episode, we talked about the sexual assault scene in that movie, right?"
[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 — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:25:22 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Both open on a protagonist already broken by past failure. · "It's the Michael Clayton thing I love of like, you start this movie with a character"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ A Bug's Life · theme · Steven's crazy siege inventions are compared to Flick's. · "He's like flick from a bug's life where he's coming up with these crazy inventions"
[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 — Patreon · The Killer · 0:02:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The speaker listened to the Dragon Tattoo score while reading the comic because The Killer score was not out. · "it's not out there, so I just listened Dragon Tattoo."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Hieronymus Bosch · craft · The film's opening is said to look like a Bosch painting. · "Like, now we're in a bosh painting."
[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 — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:52:03 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The Swedish version is a near one-to-one transposition with no act structure; Fincher's feels dramatic. · "the Swedish one is almost so one-to-one that it has no ax structure."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:18 · David Sims (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Monty Python and the Holy Grail · craft · The film's muddy, grimy medieval look is likened to Holy Grail. · "The movie that this is aesthetically most similar to weirdly is Monty Python, the Holy Grail."
[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 — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.30)] Sven Nykvist ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the maker said so) · craft · Someone on the shoot (Fincher, or the DP by the garbled name) wanted a Sven Nykvist look: warm fires, cold rooms. · "I wanted to do a whole Sven Nikfist thing"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Excalibur · craft · The siege-tower set piece is presented like a grand medieval epic. · "Is it's presenting it to you like you're watching."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:30:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Panic Room ↔ Charles Bronson · lineage · A regular person put in danger who has to knuckle up, like a Charles Bronson movie. · "This is kind of like a Charles Bronson movie in a way"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:11:51 · unknown (0.30)] Lola Visual Effects ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · Lola tracked a hair gap into reshot footage. · "So Lola, the special effects house, who's like one of the best, they do like all the de-aging, they're like top level."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[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 Straw Dogs (1971); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Straw Dogs (1971) 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.