What the corpus says about Obsession (2025)

The 54 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (20)

  1. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:44:33 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] Smile ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · lineage · Even more so it borrows from the original Smile: what if a person stared at the camera. · "Well, very much from the original smile."
  2. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:17:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · Foundational horror films like Night of the Living Dead and Chain Saw were handmade and unpolished, an essential quality Obsession shares in kind though not in quality. · "But so if you look back at Night of the Living Dead or, um, Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Last House on the Left or even Halloween to some extent."
  3. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:41:38 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Obsession ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · theme · One film literalizes the gender and fraud dynamics and the other supernaturalizes them; neither is right. · "one movie can kind of literalize the idea and another movie can kind of supernaturalize the idea"
  4. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:44:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Smile 2 ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · craft · Obsession takes its sound design and camera movement from Smile 2. · "obsession is certainly grabbing quite a bit in terms of its mechanical decision making from smile to."
  5. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:12:46 · unknown (0.30)] Obsession ↔ Backrooms · contrast · Unlike Backrooms, Obsession could have come out of any era instead of the YouTube-and-internet moment. · "it's not a movie like back rooms where you go, well, this could only come out of this current moment"
  6. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:06:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ The Sixth Sense · career · Obsession might be like The Sixth Sense, a breakout that puts a new filmmaker on the map and starts a brand. · "is it more like maybe a 6th sense kind of thing where that kind of puts Shamalan on the map and then there's like a Curry Barker brand?"
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:05:33 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Obsession · people · The cast not sharing in the profits recalls the Obsession set designer's complaint as that film took off. · "Kind of reminds me of what happened with obsession."
  8. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:36:32 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Obsession ↔ Backrooms · verdict · Naming Backrooms or Obsession as what is right or wrong with horror loses the game. · "I think saying back rooms or obsession or any movie is just like what's right or wrong with horror is losing..."
  9. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:39:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Obsession ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · verdict · The speaker likes Miasma exponentially more than Obsession. · "I like camping miasma exponentially more, you know, like much, much more."
  10. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:40:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Obsession ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · verdict · Miasma gets an A plus; Obsession is incomplete but has dirty hands and opens a can of worms. · "I'd say obsession is kind of incomplete."
  11. [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."
  12. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:42:23 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Obsession ↔ The Blair Witch Project · industry · Like Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity, the question for Obsession is whether it is repeatable rather than just sequelizable. · "in the case of those movies, it's sequelizable without being repeatable."
  13. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:04:48 · unknown (Griffin or Sean) (0.40)] Obsession ↔ Get Out · industry · Get Out's single-digit second-weekend drop is the closest legs comparison, though that was a drop, not a gain. · "something like get out having a single digit drop in the 2nd weekend is kind of the closest comp to this."
  14. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:05:51 · unknown (Griffin or Sean) (0.40)] Obsession ↔ Paranormal Activity · industry · The speaker checked Paranormal Activity's numbers against Obsession's and found nothing like a five-million Wednesday. · "The movie that I was looking at, data wise, this morning, just to see if it matched up at all was paranormal activity"
  15. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:41:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ Fatal Attraction · what-if · Imagine Fatal Attraction arriving in the Twitter era; that is the scale of Obsession's discourse. · "If Fatal Attraction had come out when Twitter existed, or if Twitter had existed for Fatal Attraction,"
  16. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:08:44 · unknown (Griffin or Sean) (0.40)] The Blair Witch Project ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · forerunner · Blair Witch is named a forbear of a word-of-mouth phenomenon among young people. · "obviously the Blair Witch Project is a forbear here in a lot of ways."
  17. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:11:53 · unknown (0.30)] Obsession ↔ Weapons · quality comp · Both drew discourse but ended up with a quality force field around them. · "It is very similar to weapons where like, weapons did have a lot of discourse, but for the most part, people were like, well, that movie is good."
  18. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:16:33 · unknown (0.30)] Obsession ↔ Haley Joel Osment · people · The lead performance has the same where-did-this-person-come-from magic trick quality Osment had in The Sixth Sense. · "this has a little bit of that magic trick feeling that Hilley Joel Osman had where you go, where did this person come from?"
  19. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:12:15 · unknown (0.30)] Obsession ↔ Wes Craven · timelessness · Obsession is a hook movie Wes Craven could have made 30 years ago, not tied to this moment. · "Wes Craven could have made this movie 30 years ago."
  20. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:15:52 · unknown (0.30)] Obsession ↔ M. Night Shyamalan · authorship comp · The star of the movie is the mystery of who made it, as with early Shyamalan films. · "And that's why I think Shyamalan's the real comparison point is the star of the movie becomes what's going on here?"

Films put beside it more than once (4)

  1. [pairs] Obsession ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · said 3 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Obsession ↔ Backrooms · said 2 times in 2 episodes
  3. [pairs] Obsession ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · said 2 times in 2 episodes
  4. [pairs] Obsession ↔ The Blair Witch Project · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (3)

  1. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:39:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Obsession · fun · The discourse around Obsession is the most deranged for any American movie since the speaker started; 80 percent the moment, 20 percent the movie. · "about 80% of that is the moment that we're in, and only 20% of it is the movie."
  2. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:02:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Obsession · fun · A tiny indie horror movie made a stunning five million dollars on a Wednesday in its third week, which Griffin says breaks his brain. · "Obsession made $5000000 on a Wednesday in its 3rd week of release"
  3. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:12:25 · unknown (0.30)] Obsession · fun · They cast an imaginary Wes Craven version with Beverly Hills 90210 actors, naming each part. · "Shannon Doherty and Brian Austin Green?"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (22)

  1. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:21:40 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Friday the 13th ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The in-film franchise is very much Friday the 13th while also running through the paces of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. · "It is very much Friday the 13th, but it's also gone through some of the same paces as Scream, and I know what you did last summer and things like that."
  2. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:22:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Kane Parsons ↔ Backrooms · lineage · Parsons was hugely inspired by Portal; explorable games move at their own pace. · "Kane Parsons was hugely inspired by portal"
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:26:41 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] The Insider ↔ The Blair Witch Project · theme · Both are 1999 movies that could not happen a few years later because the internet changed things. · "I think that's a similar thing that just 4 years later, that movie doesn't happen."
  4. [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"
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Fatal Attraction · programming · Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble. · "I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this"
  6. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:23:44 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Blair Witch Project · craft · Jabba's snot-and-spit commitment to every take is compared to Heather Donahue in Blair Witch. · "we just have to have some, like, Heather Donahue in Blair Witch Project."
  8. [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."
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction. · "We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s."
  10. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:30:53 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Sleepaway Camp ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the maker said so: interviews with Jane) · lineage · Sleepaway Camp is among the films in Miasma's DNA, along with Nightmare on Elm Street 2. · "I think the movies that are in this movie's DNA or that have come up in interviews"
  11. [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."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:09 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Fatal Attraction · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Fatal Attraction adulterer among Douglas's friction. · "The adulterer from Fatal Attraction."
  13. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes. · "Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech"
  14. [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."
  15. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:48:17 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Night of the Living Dead ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · lineage · The first girl in Night of the Living Dead is also the final girl, chased through the cemetery, and Miasma plays with that. · "I mean, candy asthma has fun with that too."
  16. [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."
  17. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:51:44 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ↔ The Cabin in the Woods · lineage · Some critics compare Miasma to Cabin in the Woods, which popped the hood on horror and elevated it into discourse. · "some people have compared can't be asthma to the Joss Whedon film to Cabin in the Woods, which is an interesting comparison."
  18. [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."
  19. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:55:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] X ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · lineage · After X, Pearl and MaXXXine the self-referential riffing on rape revenge and slasher films hit a dead end, and Miasma rebuilds the bridge. · "we have kind of gotten to the conclusive point of self-referential riffing on rape revenge and slasher films"
  20. [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."
  21. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:57:44 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · Miasma restages the sex, death, chase and catharsis of the classic final-girl structure differently from Texas Chain Saw. · "in a very different way than, you know, Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
  22. [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."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

  1. [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
  2. [speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
  3. [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

The shows' running bits (2)

  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] 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

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md 
You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Obsession (2025) 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 Obsession (2025) 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 Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:44:33 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] Smile ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · lineage · Even more so it borrows from the original Smile: what if a person stared at the camera. · "Well, very much from the original smile."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:17:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · Foundational horror films like Night of the Living Dead and Chain Saw were handmade and unpolished, an essential quality Obsession shares in kind though not in quality. · "But so if you look back at Night of the Living Dead or, um, Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Last House on the Left or even Halloween to some extent."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:41:38 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Obsession ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · theme · One film literalizes the gender and fraud dynamics and the other supernaturalizes them; neither is right. · "one movie can kind of literalize the idea and another movie can kind of supernaturalize the idea"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:44:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Smile 2 ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · craft · Obsession takes its sound design and camera movement from Smile 2. · "obsession is certainly grabbing quite a bit in terms of its mechanical decision making from smile to."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:12:46 · unknown (0.30)] Obsession ↔ Backrooms · contrast · Unlike Backrooms, Obsession could have come out of any era instead of the YouTube-and-internet moment. · "it's not a movie like back rooms where you go, well, this could only come out of this current moment"
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:06:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ The Sixth Sense · career · Obsession might be like The Sixth Sense, a breakout that puts a new filmmaker on the map and starts a brand. · "is it more like maybe a 6th sense kind of thing where that kind of puts Shamalan on the map and then there's like a Curry Barker brand?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:05:33 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Obsession · people · The cast not sharing in the profits recalls the Obsession set designer's complaint as that film took off. · "Kind of reminds me of what happened with obsession."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:36:32 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Obsession ↔ Backrooms · verdict · Naming Backrooms or Obsession as what is right or wrong with horror loses the game. · "I think saying back rooms or obsession or any movie is just like what's right or wrong with horror is losing..."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:39:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Obsession ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · verdict · The speaker likes Miasma exponentially more than Obsession. · "I like camping miasma exponentially more, you know, like much, much more."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:40:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Obsession ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · verdict · Miasma gets an A plus; Obsession is incomplete but has dirty hands and opens a can of worms. · "I'd say obsession is kind of incomplete."
[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 · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:42:23 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Obsession ↔ The Blair Witch Project · industry · Like Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity, the question for Obsession is whether it is repeatable rather than just sequelizable. · "in the case of those movies, it's sequelizable without being repeatable."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:04:48 · unknown (Griffin or Sean) (0.40)] Obsession ↔ Get Out · industry · Get Out's single-digit second-weekend drop is the closest legs comparison, though that was a drop, not a gain. · "something like get out having a single digit drop in the 2nd weekend is kind of the closest comp to this."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:05:51 · unknown (Griffin or Sean) (0.40)] Obsession ↔ Paranormal Activity · industry · The speaker checked Paranormal Activity's numbers against Obsession's and found nothing like a five-million Wednesday. · "The movie that I was looking at, data wise, this morning, just to see if it matched up at all was paranormal activity"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:41:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ Fatal Attraction · what-if · Imagine Fatal Attraction arriving in the Twitter era; that is the scale of Obsession's discourse. · "If Fatal Attraction had come out when Twitter existed, or if Twitter had existed for Fatal Attraction,"
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:08:44 · unknown (Griffin or Sean) (0.40)] The Blair Witch Project ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · forerunner · Blair Witch is named a forbear of a word-of-mouth phenomenon among young people. · "obviously the Blair Witch Project is a forbear here in a lot of ways."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:11:53 · unknown (0.30)] Obsession ↔ Weapons · quality comp · Both drew discourse but ended up with a quality force field around them. · "It is very similar to weapons where like, weapons did have a lot of discourse, but for the most part, people were like, well, that movie is good."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:16:33 · unknown (0.30)] Obsession ↔ Haley Joel Osment · people · The lead performance has the same where-did-this-person-come-from magic trick quality Osment had in The Sixth Sense. · "this has a little bit of that magic trick feeling that Hilley Joel Osman had where you go, where did this person come from?"
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:12:15 · unknown (0.30)] Obsession ↔ Wes Craven · timelessness · Obsession is a hook movie Wes Craven could have made 30 years ago, not tied to this moment. · "Wes Craven could have made this movie 30 years ago."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:15:52 · unknown (0.30)] Obsession ↔ M. Night Shyamalan · authorship comp · The star of the movie is the mystery of who made it, as with early Shyamalan films. · "And that's why I think Shyamalan's the real comparison point is the star of the movie becomes what's going on here?"
[pairs] Obsession ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Obsession ↔ Backrooms · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Obsession ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Obsession ↔ The Blair Witch Project · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:39:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Obsession · fun · The discourse around Obsession is the most deranged for any American movie since the speaker started; 80 percent the moment, 20 percent the movie. · "about 80% of that is the moment that we're in, and only 20% of it is the movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:02:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Obsession · fun · A tiny indie horror movie made a stunning five million dollars on a Wednesday in its third week, which Griffin says breaks his brain. · "Obsession made $5000000 on a Wednesday in its 3rd week of release"
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:12:25 · unknown (0.30)] Obsession · fun · They cast an imaginary Wes Craven version with Beverly Hills 90210 actors, naming each part. · "Shannon Doherty and Brian Austin Green?"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:21:40 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Friday the 13th ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The in-film franchise is very much Friday the 13th while also running through the paces of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. · "It is very much Friday the 13th, but it's also gone through some of the same paces as Scream, and I know what you did last summer and things like that."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:22:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Kane Parsons ↔ Backrooms · lineage · Parsons was hugely inspired by Portal; explorable games move at their own pace. · "Kane Parsons was hugely inspired by portal"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:26:41 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] The Insider ↔ The Blair Witch Project · theme · Both are 1999 movies that could not happen a few years later because the internet changed things. · "I think that's a similar thing that just 4 years later, that movie doesn't happen."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Fatal Attraction · programming · Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble. · "I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:23:44 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Blair Witch Project · craft · Jabba's snot-and-spit commitment to every take is compared to Heather Donahue in Blair Witch. · "we just have to have some, like, Heather Donahue in Blair Witch Project."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction. · "We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:30:53 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Sleepaway Camp ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the maker said so: interviews with Jane) · lineage · Sleepaway Camp is among the films in Miasma's DNA, along with Nightmare on Elm Street 2. · "I think the movies that are in this movie's DNA or that have come up in interviews"
[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 · The Game · 0:28:09 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Fatal Attraction · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Fatal Attraction adulterer among Douglas's friction. · "The adulterer from Fatal Attraction."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes. · "Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech"
[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 · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:48:17 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Night of the Living Dead ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · lineage · The first girl in Night of the Living Dead is also the final girl, chased through the cemetery, and Miasma plays with that. · "I mean, candy asthma has fun with that too."
[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 · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:51:44 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ↔ The Cabin in the Woods · lineage · Some critics compare Miasma to Cabin in the Woods, which popped the hood on horror and elevated it into discourse. · "some people have compared can't be asthma to the Joss Whedon film to Cabin in the Woods, which is an interesting comparison."
[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 · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:55:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] X ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · lineage · After X, Pearl and MaXXXine the self-referential riffing on rape revenge and slasher films hit a dead end, and Miasma rebuilds the bridge. · "we have kind of gotten to the conclusive point of self-referential riffing on rape revenge and slasher films"
[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 · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:57:44 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · Miasma restages the sex, death, chase and catharsis of the classic final-girl structure differently from Texas Chain Saw. · "in a very different way than, you know, Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
[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] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[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 Obsession (2025); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Obsession (2025) 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.