What the corpus says about Resident Evil (2026)

What was said about it (26)

1. [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."
2. [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."
3. [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."
4. [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."
5. [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"
6. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Resident Evil ↔ Die Hard · theme · Abrams's Brian reminded the speaker of John McClane, with humor built from the experience; the elevator shoe-melting is a Die Hard nod. · "He's not as cool and he's not as accomplished with a gun, but he kind of reminded me a little John McClain at times."
7. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:08 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Lone Wolf & Cub · theme · Sean feared the girl would become a Lone Wolf and Cub companion; the film does the opposite. · "is this going to be fucking lone wolf and cub again?"
8. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:06:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Re-Animator · theme · The finale slips into science-lab horror with a bit of Re-Animator. · "you get a little bit of, like, reanimator."
9. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:36:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Fargo · craft · Showing the opening crash scene in the trailer is like showing Fargo's opening crime scene. · "it almost is like he's recreating that."
10. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ The Thing · craft · The little girl turns into the dog from The Thing. · "as does this girl who turns into the dog from the thing."
11. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:53:33 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Get Out · craft · Chris cites Get Out's opening lonely-road accident as a box-checking scary space like the film's opening. · "get out very famously, more or less opens with an accident like that on a lonely road"
12. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:06:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Freaked · craft · Abrams's final monster looks like Alex Winter's monster from Freaked. · "It looks like Alex Winters is monster from Freaked."
13. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Weapons · contrast · Weapons chopped the story across perspectives; Resident Evil is linear through one guy's eyes, but both make you want to recap the beats. · "This movie is as linear as they come."
14. [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."
15. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:11:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Punch-Drunk Love · career · The film is Cregger's Punch-Drunk Love: a more direct follow-up after a bigger film, though Punch-Drunk Love feels more weighed down by feelings. · "this would be his punch drunk love."
16. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:12:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Jackie Brown · career · Resident Evil is to Cregger as Jackie Brown (third film, stripped-down, source material) was to Tarantino. · "It is kind of like Jackie Brown."
17. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Evil Dead · people · Online commenters compare Austin Abrams to Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead. · "a lot of people have compared, uh, this character and this performance to Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead."
18. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:57 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Back to the Future · people · Abrams's quality recalls Michael J. Fox's in a non-horror film. · "Now Back to the Future is not a horror movie."
19. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:10:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Obsession · industry · Obsession was also disgusting and a huge sensation, showing gross horror can have a high ceiling. · "obsession is also disgusting at times, and it is a huge sensation."
20. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Boogie Nights · rewatchability · Listing the film's scenes reminded the speaker of prepping the Boogie Nights Rewatchables: every scene is the best scene. · "most rewatchable scene is every scene."
21. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:58:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Resident Evil ↔ Aliens · creature/set-piece comp · The elevator ascent and maternity ward pods recall Alien and Aliens; xenomorphs coming out of the wall. · "this is really where a lot of the alien and aliens stuff starts to come in"
22. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:21:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Weapons ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · respectability · Weapons made a witch-flesh-tearing movie respectable; Resident Evil may do the same for movies like it. · "this is like gonna kind of make movies like this respectable."
23. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:33:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Fright Night · horror-comedy short list · Gore plus comedy that works is an extremely short list: Fright Night, American Werewolf, Shaun of the Dead. · "Like, it's like fright night, an American werewolf in London."
24. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:34:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Barbarian ↔ Resident Evil · comedy-horror · Barbarian's Justin Long convertible cut is a horror-comedy peak, but sustaining it is tough. · "barbarian is like the hard cut to Justin Long singing along in the convertible"
25. [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"
26. [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."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

1. [pairs] Resident Evil ↔ Weapons · said 2 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] Resident Evil ↔ Die Hard · said 2 times in 1 episode
3. [pairs] Resident Evil ↔ The Thing · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:20:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Resident Evil · fun · Cregger told Sean the film would be a rock-em sock-em, brain-off Evil Dead 2 style movie, nothing like Barbarian and Weapons. Sean regrets asking him why he was making a franchise film right after Weapons. · "I took a little bit of an attitude with him."
2. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Resident Evil · fun · At the Century City screening, Sean and Chris were put in separate rooms; they locked eyes after and both knew they had one. · "we both were wide-eyed, and we knew."
3. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:23:31 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Resident Evil · fun · Runs 87 minutes and Chris did not want it to end; every movie in 2026 feels too long. · "I cannot remember the last time I was in a movie and felt, God, this is moving too fast."
4. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Resident Evil · fun · The title credits do not appear until after the 20 minute mark; most of the trailer is from the first 20 minutes. · "the title credits don't appear until after the 20 minute mark"
5. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil · fun · Brian shoots the bitten girl who turns into a lizard-footed tentacle monster, rather than becoming Lone Wolf and Cub; Sean wanted to applaud as the father of a daughter. · "He blows that fucking girl's head off."
6. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:41:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Resident Evil · fun · A running padlock gag: giant truck caught in a padlocked gate, the first of many padlocks that stymie Brian. · "the 1st of many padlocks that stymie him throughout this movie."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (20)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:47 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Thing (the host's read) · lineage · Alien, Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's work belong to a 70s-80s peak of gooey rubber and robotics that Eraserhead may have first synthesized. · "We don't exactly know, but I feel like things like alien and the carpenter film, certainly the thing."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:40:58 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ 28 Days Later · craft · The empty-Times-Square shoot is likened to emptying London for 28 Days Later. · "like in 28 days later when they like, you know, did Limpty London."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:09:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Aliens ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · programming · Both franchises are auteur-rich without one definitive director, which is why the Patreon series covered them. · "Uh, but like Mission Impossible Aliens, perfect examples of franchises that uh, have a tours, but do not have one definitive director."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:14:30 · David Sims (0.45)] The Detective ⇒ Die Hard (the host's read) · lineage · Sinatra's rights deal on The Detective gave him first refusal on follow-ups, so Die Hard had to be offered to him. · "something in the deal for when Sinatra had bought the rights to the detective, gave him right of 1st refusal on any of the follow-ups"
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:22:28 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ The Thing · theme · The dog scene and its child autopsy carry The Thing vibes. · "It has the thing vibes as well, obviously."
7. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:20:17 · unknown (0.50)] Working Girl ↔ Die Hard · theme · Another absurd-premise movie that works; used to defend Working Girl's far-fetched merger plot. · "So is Die Hard."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:27:45 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ The Thing · theme · Quilty is compared to the shapeless menace of John Carpenter's The Thing. · "No, I'm saying he's like the thing, like John Carpenter's the thing."
10. [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."
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:58:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Die Hard · theme · Bearer bonds as plot device: not since Die Hard has there been 25 minutes on bearer bonds. · "Not since Die Hard have we spent 25 minutes on bear bonds."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:30:13 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Die Hard · theme · The FBI men in Die Hard accept losing 25 percent of the hostages, the same numbers-game thinking as the generals. · "the FBI are like, yeah, we're going to lose 25% of the hostages, but like, that's pretty good for us."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
15. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:45:06 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Die Hard · craft · The hero who is capable but visibly working it out is what the imitators miss; same as John McClane. · "it's the same thing that works about John McLean in the 1st Die Hard."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:40:52 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The shoulder-mounted GoPro cameras are carried over from the Marines in Aliens. · "which the Marines all have in aliens"
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:27:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Jan de Bont ↔ Die Hard · craft · De Bont as cool DP turned maker of accessible action films was a model of who filmmakers wanted to be. · "Cool ass DP that comes from doing that and makes these awesome, ridiculously accessible action films"
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens. · "But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:37:52 · unknown (0.55)] John McTiernan ↔ Die Hard · craft · McTiernan's quiet genius is dialogue scenes as exciting as action; the best-cited Die Hard moments are not action. · "So much of what we, you know, all the great moments from Die Hard are actually not even the action"
20. [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."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

1. [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
2. [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

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [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)
2. [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)
3. [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)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Resident Evil (2026) 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 (2026) 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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘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 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 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 Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Resident Evil ↔ Die Hard · theme · Abrams's Brian reminded the speaker of John McClane, with humor built from the experience; the elevator shoe-melting is a Die Hard nod. · "He's not as cool and he's not as accomplished with a gun, but he kind of reminded me a little John McClain at times."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:08 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Lone Wolf & Cub · theme · Sean feared the girl would become a Lone Wolf and Cub companion; the film does the opposite. · "is this going to be fucking lone wolf and cub again?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:06:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Re-Animator · theme · The finale slips into science-lab horror with a bit of Re-Animator. · "you get a little bit of, like, reanimator."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:36:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Fargo · craft · Showing the opening crash scene in the trailer is like showing Fargo's opening crime scene. · "it almost is like he's recreating that."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ The Thing · craft · The little girl turns into the dog from The Thing. · "as does this girl who turns into the dog from the thing."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:53:33 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Get Out · craft · Chris cites Get Out's opening lonely-road accident as a box-checking scary space like the film's opening. · "get out very famously, more or less opens with an accident like that on a lonely road"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:06:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Freaked · craft · Abrams's final monster looks like Alex Winter's monster from Freaked. · "It looks like Alex Winters is monster from Freaked."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Weapons · contrast · Weapons chopped the story across perspectives; Resident Evil is linear through one guy's eyes, but both make you want to recap the beats. · "This movie is as linear as they come."
[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 · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:11:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Punch-Drunk Love · career · The film is Cregger's Punch-Drunk Love: a more direct follow-up after a bigger film, though Punch-Drunk Love feels more weighed down by feelings. · "this would be his punch drunk love."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:12:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Jackie Brown · career · Resident Evil is to Cregger as Jackie Brown (third film, stripped-down, source material) was to Tarantino. · "It is kind of like Jackie Brown."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Evil Dead · people · Online commenters compare Austin Abrams to Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead. · "a lot of people have compared, uh, this character and this performance to Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:57 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Back to the Future · people · Abrams's quality recalls Michael J. Fox's in a non-horror film. · "Now Back to the Future is not a horror movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:10:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Obsession · industry · Obsession was also disgusting and a huge sensation, showing gross horror can have a high ceiling. · "obsession is also disgusting at times, and it is a huge sensation."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Boogie Nights · rewatchability · Listing the film's scenes reminded the speaker of prepping the Boogie Nights Rewatchables: every scene is the best scene. · "most rewatchable scene is every scene."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:58:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Resident Evil ↔ Aliens · creature/set-piece comp · The elevator ascent and maternity ward pods recall Alien and Aliens; xenomorphs coming out of the wall. · "this is really where a lot of the alien and aliens stuff starts to come in"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:21:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Weapons ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · respectability · Weapons made a witch-flesh-tearing movie respectable; Resident Evil may do the same for movies like it. · "this is like gonna kind of make movies like this respectable."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:33:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Fright Night · horror-comedy short list · Gore plus comedy that works is an extremely short list: Fright Night, American Werewolf, Shaun of the Dead. · "Like, it's like fright night, an American werewolf in London."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:34:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Barbarian ↔ Resident Evil · comedy-horror · Barbarian's Justin Long convertible cut is a horror-comedy peak, but sustaining it is tough. · "barbarian is like the hard cut to Justin Long singing along in the convertible"
[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 · ‘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."
[pairs] Resident Evil ↔ Weapons · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Resident Evil ↔ Die Hard · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Resident Evil ↔ The Thing · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:20:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Resident Evil · fun · Cregger told Sean the film would be a rock-em sock-em, brain-off Evil Dead 2 style movie, nothing like Barbarian and Weapons. Sean regrets asking him why he was making a franchise film right after Weapons. · "I took a little bit of an attitude with him."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Resident Evil · fun · At the Century City screening, Sean and Chris were put in separate rooms; they locked eyes after and both knew they had one. · "we both were wide-eyed, and we knew."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:23:31 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Resident Evil · fun · Runs 87 minutes and Chris did not want it to end; every movie in 2026 feels too long. · "I cannot remember the last time I was in a movie and felt, God, this is moving too fast."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Resident Evil · fun · The title credits do not appear until after the 20 minute mark; most of the trailer is from the first 20 minutes. · "the title credits don't appear until after the 20 minute mark"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil · fun · Brian shoots the bitten girl who turns into a lizard-footed tentacle monster, rather than becoming Lone Wolf and Cub; Sean wanted to applaud as the father of a daughter. · "He blows that fucking girl's head off."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:41:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Resident Evil · fun · A running padlock gag: giant truck caught in a padlocked gate, the first of many padlocks that stymie Brian. · "the 1st of many padlocks that stymie him throughout this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:47 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Thing (the host's read) · lineage · Alien, Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's work belong to a 70s-80s peak of gooey rubber and robotics that Eraserhead may have first synthesized. · "We don't exactly know, but I feel like things like alien and the carpenter film, certainly the thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:40:58 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ 28 Days Later · craft · The empty-Times-Square shoot is likened to emptying London for 28 Days Later. · "like in 28 days later when they like, you know, did Limpty London."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:09:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Aliens ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · programming · Both franchises are auteur-rich without one definitive director, which is why the Patreon series covered them. · "Uh, but like Mission Impossible Aliens, perfect examples of franchises that uh, have a tours, but do not have one definitive director."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:14:30 · David Sims (0.45)] The Detective ⇒ Die Hard (the host's read) · lineage · Sinatra's rights deal on The Detective gave him first refusal on follow-ups, so Die Hard had to be offered to him. · "something in the deal for when Sinatra had bought the rights to the detective, gave him right of 1st refusal on any of the follow-ups"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:22:28 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ The Thing · theme · The dog scene and its child autopsy carry The Thing vibes. · "It has the thing vibes as well, obviously."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:20:17 · unknown (0.50)] Working Girl ↔ Die Hard · theme · Another absurd-premise movie that works; used to defend Working Girl's far-fetched merger plot. · "So is Die Hard."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:27:45 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ The Thing · theme · Quilty is compared to the shapeless menace of John Carpenter's The Thing. · "No, I'm saying he's like the thing, like John Carpenter's the thing."
[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 · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:58:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Die Hard · theme · Bearer bonds as plot device: not since Die Hard has there been 25 minutes on bearer bonds. · "Not since Die Hard have we spent 25 minutes on bear bonds."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:30:13 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Die Hard · theme · The FBI men in Die Hard accept losing 25 percent of the hostages, the same numbers-game thinking as the generals. · "the FBI are like, yeah, we're going to lose 25% of the hostages, but like, that's pretty good for us."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:45:06 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Die Hard · craft · The hero who is capable but visibly working it out is what the imitators miss; same as John McClane. · "it's the same thing that works about John McLean in the 1st Die Hard."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:40:52 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The shoulder-mounted GoPro cameras are carried over from the Marines in Aliens. · "which the Marines all have in aliens"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:27:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Jan de Bont ↔ Die Hard · craft · De Bont as cool DP turned maker of accessible action films was a model of who filmmakers wanted to be. · "Cool ass DP that comes from doing that and makes these awesome, ridiculously accessible action films"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens. · "But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:37:52 · unknown (0.55)] John McTiernan ↔ Die Hard · craft · McTiernan's quiet genius is dialogue scenes as exciting as action; the best-cited Die Hard moments are not action. · "So much of what we, you know, all the great moments from Die Hard are actually not even the action"
[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."
[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] 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)
[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 Resident Evil (2026); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Resident Evil (2026) 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.