What the corpus says about Messiah of Evil (1973)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Messiah of Evil (1973) 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 Messiah of Evil (1973) 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 · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:08:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Messiah of Evil ↔ American Graffiti · lineage · Messiah of Evil is described as hugely influential on 80s horror that followed. · "clearly hugely influential on the 80s films that were going to come after it."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:07:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Messiah of Evil ↔ Howard the Duck · people · Messiah of Evil's writers-directors are best known for Howard the Duck, which it has nothing to do with. · "They are probably best known for working on Howard the Duck"
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:09:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Messiah of Evil ↔ Miami Blues · same label · Radiance put out Messiah of Evil; the speaker first got hip to the label buying Miami Blues at Fopp. · "But I bought Miami blues there, which is a really, really good Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Lee movie."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:09:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Messiah of Evil ↔ Thieves Like Us · same label · Radiance also issued a great edition of the Altman film Thieves Like Us. · "they put out a great edition of Thieves Like Us, the Altman movie"
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:09:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Messiah of Evil · fun · Radiance's 4K hard box of Messiah of Evil is called one of the coolest purchases ever, a hard-to-see 1974 cult horror. · "But the Messiah of Evil one, is like one of the coolest purchases I've ever made."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:39:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ American Graffiti · theme · Amanda compares the high school interlude in the middle of The Fabelmans to American Graffiti. · "the lovely American graffiti high school, like interlude in the middle."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 2:13:19 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Howard the Duck · programming · The credits tag with Howard the Duck leads to talk about the comic being better than the Lucas film and Kevin Smith's animated show. · "Not the George Lucas film."
[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)

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 Messiah of Evil (1973); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Messiah of Evil (1973) 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.