What the corpus says about Green Room (2015)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Green Room (2015) 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 Green Room (2015) 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 · 0:32:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] The Invitation ↔ Green Room · theme · Sean puts both on his runners-up list and says they belong in a separate category called terror. · "I think that those 2 movies should almost be recategorized into what we might call terror."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:45:29 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.30)] Kill List ↔ Green Room · theme · Kill List has more in common with Green Room: a masterpiece that is more discomfort than horror. · "Killist, I think, has more in common with green room."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Green Room · contrast · Without the comedy release valve it would be as upsetting as Green Room or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. · "otherwise it's like you're watching Green Room. You're watching, you know, Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:29:42 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Green Room ↔ Blue Ruin · career · Green Room is Saulnier's mainstream-ish follow-up to the micro-budgeted Blue Ruin. · "it's his follow-up, uh, to Blue Ruin, uh, which was this micro budgeted thriller"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:04:22 · Craig Horlbeck (0.70)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Green Room · feels real · Chainsaw scares because the evil is not supernatural, unlike Jason, Freddy, Myers or The Exorcist; Blair Witch and Green Room are the modern realistic ones. · "there's a bunch of movies that are scary, but this is, this scares me because it feels so real."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:32:25 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Green Room · fun · The door-opening scene as the scariest thing he has seen. · "the buildup and execution of when they open the door is the fucking most terrifying thing you will ever see"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:33:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Green Room · fun · They propose recategorizing Green Room and The Invitation as terror, and note the Ringer's Slack channel called terror. · "At the ringer, we have a slack channel called hashtag terror."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Evil Dead II ⇒ Resident Evil (the maker said so: a conversation with Cregger on the show last year) · lineage · Cregger said he wanted an Evil Dead 2 style rock-em sock-em movie and got crazy with the camera. · "I'm doing it because I think this movie is going to be fucking awesome."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:37:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Invitation ↔ Starry Eyes · programming · Starry Eyes makes a good double feature with The Invitation for anxiety and terror. · "Starias in particular is a nice double feature, I think, with the invitation"
[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"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:30:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Charlie Chaplin · lineage · The design recalls Chaplin and Keaton's slip-and-fall, rooted-for ne'er-do-well. · "there's so much Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to me in the design of the movie"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:22:43 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] The Invitation ↔ Rosemary's Baby · lineage · The Invitation, like Rosemary's Baby, is a realistic situation that keeps getting altered until pandemonium. · "that's the movie that I would compare it to in terms of this is a relatively realistic situation that just keeps getting altered more and more"
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Thing ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The farmhouse sequence and the dog at the barn are homages to Carpenter's The Thing. · "You can see the homage to Carpenters the Thing in all this part."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:39:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] The Invitation ↔ Karyn Kusama · craft · The Invitation's dread of not knowing what is going on is what Kusama would bring. · "I was thinking about the invitation and, um, the kind of not really knowing what's going on and the dread of it all"
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] John Carpenter ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · Carpenter looms over the movie; it sits in a lineage with Romero, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg. · "It's very obvious the way that Carpenter looms over a movie like this."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:23 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ 28 Days Later · lineage · Listed among strands to pull from: Romero zombies, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg body horror. · "You could pull the Romero zombie movies."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:54:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ George A. Romero · lineage · The skyscraper stage recalls later Romero films where a whole city is overrun. · "the more elevated later Romero movies where it feels like an entire city has been taken over."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Die Hard ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass). · "You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:20:44 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ The Last of Us · lineage · Chris sees it as a breakthrough for video-game films, like The Last of Us for TV. · "I see this movie as, it is the last of us 4 movies"
[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
[speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[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 Green Room (2015); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Green Room (2015) 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.