What the corpus says about Hereditary (2018)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Hereditary (2018) 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 Hereditary (2018) 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 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:48:48 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Hereditary ↔ Midsommar · theme · Hereditary comes from Aster's ideas about childhood and parenthood, Midsommar from romantic relationships. · "hereditary is probably rooted in some of his ideas about childhood and parenthood and Midsommar is rooted in his ideas about romantic relationships"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:38:40 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Hereditary · contrast · In the ring-search scene the fear of a Hereditary-style horror turn flickers by. · "I like, 0 my god, is this hereditary going to happen again?"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:47:22 · unknown (0.40)] Hereditary ↔ Manchester by the Sea · verdict · Worst first-date movies are real bummers like Hereditary and Manchester by the Sea. · "Hereditary and Manchester by the Sea, I think are like real bummers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:34:31 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Hereditary · industry · Cinema scores: horror films like Us and Hereditary draw low scores that don't track quality, with a list of Fs mostly great movies. · "And almost all of them are great movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:06:46 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Friday Night Lights (TV series) · programming · The reboot will use the title as a bucket for different stories about Texas high school football. · "use the title as a bucket to tell different stories about high school football in Texas."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:17:03 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Ant-Man (the host's read) · programming · After Guardians' success with unknown characters, Ant-Man was an easy next gamble. · "you do Ant-Man after that because you're just like, yeah, let's do Ant-Man."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:22:20 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Manchester by the Sea · theme · A man loses his family in a past tragedy and becomes the super of a building, which the speaker notes as the same plot. · "In all caps, I wrote, this is the plot of Manchester by the Sea."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:11:14 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jonny Greenwood ↔ Midsommar · craft · Chris describes the Midsommar experience as Ari Aster playing Greenwood's strings until his eardrums explode. · "Ari Astor stuffed me in a fucking bear carcass and played Johnny Greenwood strings in my, until my eardrums explode."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 1:42:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Varsity Blues · programming · Best double feature: the serious Texas version after the super fun one. · "We get the super fun Texas version, then we get like the serious version."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:31:39 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Midsommar ↔ Midsommar · craft · The cold open is Chris's favorite sequence for filmmaking expertise, even as punishing as it gets. · "just in terms of filmmaking, uh, expertise, uh, would be the cold open opening sequence of Midsommar."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:01 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ MASH · lineage · Friday Night Lights is a movie that led to a TV show, like MASH, Buffy and Parenthood. · "there's been really good movies that led to better TV shows."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:59:57 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Captain Marvel provides context for the Nova Corps Cree and a not-yet-crazy Ronan, and Jude Law's Yon-Rogg. · "But the idea in Captain Marvel is he's not crazy yet."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Buffy the Vampire Slayer · lineage · Another movie that led to a TV series, named as precedent. · "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Parenthood · lineage · Another movie-to-TV precedent; there is an argument the show is better. · "I think parenthood, there's a really good argument."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:59:51 · David Sims (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · programming · The Collector mid-credits scene already shows the Guardians' comic space weirdness; the speaker thinks James Gunn directed it. · "I think gun directed this. It's 100% difficult."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ⇒ Friday Night Lights (TV series) (the host's read) · lineage · The TV show's excellence overshadowed the film, which has become underrated. · "And then this one, which I think the TV show kind of overwhelmed the movie, and now the movie has become weirdly underrated."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read) · programming · Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list. · "We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:09:40 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Against the Grain (NBC show) · lineage · Earlier Texas football entries that Friday Night Lights outdid; the NBC show failed. · "there was against the grain, an NBC show with Ben Affleck as the quarterback that failed."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:43:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · As a prequel, Captain Marvel brings back Guardians characters Ronan (Lee Pace) and Korath (Djimon Hounsou). · "this is, of course, a prequel, so their characters appear in this film again."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:10:01 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Varsity Blues · lineage · Both took viewers into the Texas football world; Friday Night Lights nailed it and the TV series went further. · "Then this movie nailed it?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:35:50 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Trek: The Original Series · lineage · It has a Star Trek vibe, essentially a comedy with 60s Trek aesthetics. · "It's like someone doing a comedy with 60s trek aesthetics."
[speaker] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines
[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 Hereditary (2018); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Hereditary (2018) 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.