What the corpus says about Frankenstein (1931)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Frankenstein (1931) 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 Frankenstein (1931) 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 Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:31:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Weird Science ↔ Frankenstein · lineage · Ebert's review says the movie combines male teenage fantasy with Frankenstein's monster. · "Inflamed male teenage fantasies and Frankenstein's monster."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:15:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Poor Things ↔ Frankenstein · contrast · Frankenstein is a cautionary tale about science; Poor Things uses its framework to arrive at redemption and closeness. · "There's a lot of other ideas in Frankenstein, but this movie in many ways is the opposite."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:19:43 · Todd Haynes (0.65)] Todd Haynes ↔ Poor Things · programming · Haynes recently saw Poor Things and loved it, singling out Mark Ruffalo. · "I just saw poor things recently and man, I loved it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:12:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Weird Science ↔ Sneakers · programming · The last pod Bill and Kyle did was Sneakers, also a computers-in-the-dark-ages movie. · "this isn't interesting because the last pod you and I did, we did sneakers, which is in the 90s, and we still didn't know what computers could do."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:28:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Zone of Interest ↔ Poor Things · lineage · Five adapted-screenplay nominees are interesting recontextualizations of their sources, and Zone of Interest is the outside contender that is also one. · "The one on the outside, I think, is also a best picture contender that is also a recontextualization, which is the zone of interest."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Mannequin · programming · Kyle's double feature pick is Mannequin, another magical-woman 80s movie. · "I'm doing Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrell, nothing's going to stop us now."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:41:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Dogtooth ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Both are about who gets to dictate the rules; Poor Things is described as a sequel to Dogtooth's fathers-and-language themes. · "It's like the sequel to that movie in some ways because the Godwin character"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · programming · Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night. · "My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Bride of Frankenstein ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says the Frankenstein novel and the first two Frankenstein movies are major influences on Poor Things. · "the Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are, like, huge influences on this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad. · "Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:18:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Alasdair Gray ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · The film is based on the Scottish author's novel, from which Lanthimos took liberties. · "this is actually based on a novel by Alice Dare Gray, the Scottish author."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:11:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.60)] Weird Science ↔ WarGames · lineage · Both movies are about teenage computer hackers, and both end up with a nuclear missile; Weird Science's kids are more premeditated. · "I think they're a little bit more premeditated than in war games, but they, ironically, they both end up with a nuclear missile."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Barbie · theme · Both arrived as feminist coming-of-age stories about a created girl learning about the world, six weeks apart. · "it was about 6 weeks after the Barbie wave and there are some really obvious comparisons to be made here."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:14:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Weird Science ↔ Her · lineage · Weird Science did years earlier what Her does: making a fake hot woman because you cannot meet a real one. · "Like, that was the movie 15 years or so later, whatever that was that weird science was doing."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:37:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ Fair Play · theme · The sex-in-American-movies topic was discussed in the Fair Play episode. · "We talked about it in the Fairplay episode last year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club. · "Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:40:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ The Island of Dr. Moreau · theme · Godwin, fusing creatures on his island, is likened to a Dr. Moreau figure. · "he's kind of an, uh, an island of Dr. Moreau kind of figure"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · lineage · The Hughes-verse crosses over; the insurance seminar joke is also in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. · "Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and plane strains and automobiles."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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] 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 Frankenstein (1931); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Frankenstein (1931) 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.