What the corpus says about What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished What We Do in the Shadows (2014) 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 What We Do in the Shadows (2014) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:47:56 · unknown (0.30)] True Blood ↔ What We Do in the Shadows · theme · True Blood's mundane vampire responsibility is what makes What We Do in the Shadows work. · "that's so much of what makes what we do in the shadows work, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:50:52 · unknown (0.30)] What We Do in the Shadows ↔ The Twilight Saga: Eclipse · contrast · Vampire fans love Shadows' attention to rules and get angry that Twilight threw them out without replacing them with interesting rules. · "vampire fans get angry about this franchise for throwing out most of the vampire rules."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:33:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] What We Do in the Shadows ↔ Taika Waititi · career · The vampire comedy became an FX series. · "it's a comedy about vampires that has now become a successful television show on FX from Taiko YTV"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:48:06 · unknown (0.30)] Jemaine Clement ⇒ What We Do in the Shadows (the host's read) · people · The film and TV show came out of Jemaine and Taika riffing for years on the banality of vampire roles. · "that came out of, uh, uh, Jermaine and and Taika for years riffing on like the banality of vampire roles"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:34:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] What We Do in the Shadows · fun · iTunes files it under thriller; Sean blames Apple and jokes about summoning Tim Cook. · "Shall we call Tim Cook here on the big picture?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:08:12 · unknown (0.40)] David Slade ↔ The Twilight Saga: Eclipse · programming · Summit hired a horror stylist hoping to make the franchise scary and win teenage boys. · "I think they went like, oh, here's a guy who does like highly stylized, sophisticated horror shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:46:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ True Blood · theme · Twilight's newborn-vampire subplot prompts a comparison to True Blood, where turning someone makes you responsible for them. · "I'm thinking about true blood again."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:17:57 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Hunger Games · programming · Twilight's casting grew from B-list to Oscar nominees by the third film, like Hunger Games gaining Hoffman and Julianne Moore. · "And it's kind of the same thing with hunger games."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 2:10:08 · Ben Hosley (0.50)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Toy Story 3 · programming · Eclipse opened the same weekend as Toy Story 3, Last Airbender and Grown Ups (box office game). · "It's Toy Story 3, and it's the weekend."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 2:21:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn · programming · The final film is promised to take a huge liberty with the book and be entertaining, and the second to last has Michael Sheen camp. · "at least, I remember the next one having some Michael Sheen in it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:06:32 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Imitation of Life · lineage · A guest on the prior episode (Chris, who worked on the franchise) was told the series plays like a Sirkian melodrama; his mother was nominated for Imitation of Life. · "it's like a Circian melodrama"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:17:30 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones · lineage · The meadow-and-flowers romance scene reads as Attack of the Clones vibes; the ending returns to the same field. · "Whereas this is Attack of the Clones vibes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:35:05 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Sonic the Hedgehog · theme · Speedster problem via Rebecca Drysdale: a character faster than everyone has no shared continuum with others; the Sonic movie solved it with a road trip. · "Sonic is inherently kind of a tough character to build dramatic narrative around because his whole thing is he goes faster than everyone else."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:46:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ True Blood · theme · Twilight's newborn-vampire subplot prompts a comparison to True Blood, where turning someone makes you responsible for them. · "I'm thinking about true blood again."
[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)

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 What We Do in the Shadows (2014); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend What We Do in the Shadows (2014) 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.