What the corpus says about Resident Evil (2002)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Resident Evil (2002) 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 Resident Evil (2002) 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 · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:19:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Resident Evil ↔ The Crow · craft · Fennessey says DP Darius Wolski is working in his The Crow / Dark City register on Resident Evil. · "the director of photography of this movie is 70-year-old Darius Wolski, who is best known, I think, recently for his work with Ridley Scott, but who is really in his The Crow Dark City bag in this movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:19:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Resident Evil ↔ Dark City · craft · Same remark: Wolski's look here is his Dark City mode, a shared-cinematographer style comparison. · "who is really in his The Crow Dark City bag in this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:06:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Resident Evil · horror boom · Horror is Hollywood's new singles and doubles; Backrooms, Resident Evil and Obsession are the year's successes. · "The new singles and doubles of Hollywood is horror."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:59:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Austin Abrams ↔ Resident Evil · career · Abrams is floated as this fall's final girl across Resident Evil and Whalefall. · "Is is Austin Abrams This Falls Final Girl?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:20:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Resident Evil ↔ Ryan Hayes Holladay · people · The Holladays return to score, implying a repeat collaboration with the earlier Cregger films; Fennessey loves the score. · "Ryan and Hayes Holiday are back doing the score."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 2:09:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Crow ↔ Rust · lineage · Gun-safety protocols on sets exist because of The Crow, which is why the Rust shooting is so shocking. · "they're like so crazy, like about you checking because of the crow, basically, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:30:52 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ The Last House on the Left · programming · Chris picks Last House on the Left for a double feature as an equally disturbing snapshot of movie history. · "I'll probably go last house on the left, although it is equally disturbing"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:49:04 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Beetle ↔ The Crow · theme · Blue Beetle is a bit like the Crow, possessed by spirits. · "he's also a little bit like the crow."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:31:17 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Deliverance · programming · A guest pick for a double bill: road trip gone wrong. · "Oh, my God. Road trip gone wrong."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:31:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read) · programming · Bill pairs it with Halloween to compare how much Halloween cribbed from Chainsaw. · "I went Halloween just to compare and contrast like how much Halloween, crib done, chainsaw, all that stuff."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:46:48 · unknown (0.30)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Friday borrowed the seemingly friendly helper who turns out hostile and the killer who keeps getting back up. · "a seemingly friendly helper who ends up being not friendly, the Texas chainsaw move."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:47:50 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · The cemetery-warning figure at the start of Chain Saw parallels Ralph. · "The guy in the beginning at the cemetery at Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he kind of warns everybody of what's to come."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:03:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read) · lineage · Halloween felt like it invented modern horror, but on rewatch Chainsaw is the real ground zero. · "whenever I watch Chainsaw, I'm like, no, actually this is ground zero."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:21:41 · unknown (0.50)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 opens by wiping out the status quo that ended Aliens. · "Seconds of this movie, it literally just burns the status quo established at the end of the last one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:03:15 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Night of the Living Dead ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read) · lineage · Hooper saw the line down the block for Night of the Living Dead and decided to make a horror film with his own ideas about Vietnam-era America. · "Toby Hooper, who directed Chainsaw Massacre, went and saw Night of the Living Dead."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:58:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Bishop remains scene echoes the original film's reactivated-android scene. · "And just kind of a fun throwback to the, uh, original alien thing where you like take the puppet, you kind of get it ready."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:17:18 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Ed Gein ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read) · lineage · The film was a little influenced by Ed Gein, whose skin masks and grave digging fascinated Hollywood. · "it was a little influenced by the great Ed Geen."
[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
[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
[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] 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 Resident Evil (2002); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Resident Evil (2002) 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.