What the corpus says about X (2022)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished X (2022) 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 X (2022) 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’ · 0:55:42 · 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 Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:59:10 · unknown (0.40)] X ⇒ Pearl (the host's read) · lineage · Pearl was cooked up by Ti West and Mia Goth while stuck in a faraway place during the shoot of X. · "Pearl being a movie that Tai West and Mia Goth just cooked up because they were stuck in, I think, Australia or maybe New Zealand during the production of X"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:05:50 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ↔ X · eye stabbing · The horror movie X in theaters has a high-level eye stabbing. · "there's a horror movie in theaters right now called X that's got a high level eye stabbing in it."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Pearl ↔ X · prequel and trilogy · Amanda watched Pearl because she promised to see MaXXXine and so caught up on X and Pearl. · "which I saw because I promised to watch Maxine. And then I was like, well, I got to watch the 1st two."
[pairs] X ↔ Pearl · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pearl ↔ Babylon · theme · Amanda says Pearl completes a trilogy of 2022 films about the transition to silent film, with Babylon and Downton Abbey: A New Era. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Die Hard 2 · programming · Pick 14 (round 5), category sequel: Takes it off the board and avoids Look Who's Talking Too. · "And I'm going to take Die Hard 2."
[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 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."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:18:01 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Lethal Weapon 2 · lineage · It arrived in the run-it-back era of sequels like Lethal Weapon 2. · "it is right during the era of everybody looking at each other and going, let's just run it back."
[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 · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] 58 Minutes ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot. · "Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers."
[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 · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Manuel Noriega ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the maker said so: the screenwriter admitted it) · lineage · The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega. · "there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life."
[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 · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:43:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ⇒ Positive K (the host's read) · lineage · Positive K's song 'I Got a Man' samples a line from Die Hard 2, so the song now brings the movie to mind. · "And then that line got sampled on, I got a man, the positive K song. So now every time you hear that song, you hear that line from that movie."
[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 · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:22:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Indiana Jones series · theme · The critic grouped it with Indiana Jones as thrillers that leave your arm black and blue. · "this is one of those thrillers, like the Indiana Jones series that I categorized as bruised for our movies"
[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 · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:41:35 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ First Blood · theme · Franz's 'I taught him everything he knows' line is joked as Richard Crenna in First Blood. · "like Richard Crenna in 1st Blood."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 1:14:37 · Gillian Anderson (0.90)] Sunset Boulevard ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Billy is partly a Sunset Boulevard figure, which Anderson played with in costuming, and the film acknowledges the Norma Desmond comparison itself. · "the Sunset Boulevard reference"
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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] 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 X (2022); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend X (2022) 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.