What the corpus says about It Follows (2014)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished It Follows (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 It Follows (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.

[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:44:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] It Follows ⇒ The Witch (the host's read) · lineage · It Follows is a precursor to The Witch in the rise of the term elevated horror, a phrase both hosts distrust. · "I think is an interesting precursor to the witch because that's when we started hearing what I think is kind of an ugly phrase, which is elevated horror"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:28:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ It Follows · contrast · Under the Silver Lake is a detective, paranoia, internet movie, a very different energy from It Follows. · "more of a detective movie, more of like a hipster examination of paranoia and looking for coded messages"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:27:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] It Follows ↔ The Myth of the American Sleepover · career · Mitchell's non-horror previous film shares It Follows' atmosphere and use of young actors. · "does have a lot in common with it follows in terms of its sort of atmosphere"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:25:48 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] It Follows ↔ John Carpenter · lineage · Chris compares It Follows to Carpenter, though he knows Mitchell tired of that comparison. · "I apologize for comparing this to John Carpenter"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:26:48 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] It Follows · fun · Against 80s horror, where sex gets you killed, the cursed girl here is the heroine. · "Anybody who has sex in a horror movie is just the 1st person to die and it's the virtuous final girl who makes it to the end."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:43:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Witch ↔ Nathaniel Hawthorne · lineage · The Witch is a slow portrait of puritanical New England in a Hawthorne vein. · "a slow-moving, methodical portrait of a Nathaniel Hawthorne-esque puritanical New England America"
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:51:49 · Andrew Garfield (0.95)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ The Goonies · lineage · Garfield says the script reminded him of The Goonies: a grown-up, regressed one-man quest movie. · "It was like a grown up regressed version of the Goonies of like a one-man Goonies, a quest movie."
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:54:54 · Andrew Garfield (0.95)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ Taxi Driver (unnamed; via Travis Bickle) · lineage · Sam is a young man who considers himself a Travis Bickle wiping scum off the streets, but he is brainwashed and perpetuates the misogyny. · "a young man who considers himself a Travis Bickle wanting to wipe the scum off the streets"
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:35:51 · Andrew Garfield (0.95)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ Los Angeles · theme · The film captures the city's forbidding, foreboding feeling that everyone is on the outside. · "the feeling of forbiddance and foreboding that the city has, I think, is what David, Robert Mitchell, the director of this film under the silver lake really captures"
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:20 · Andrew Garfield (0.95)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ The Game · theme · Garfield says people crave mystery and decoding, citing The Game as a favorite modern film about that. · "the game is one of my favorite like modern films of all time that deals with this issue."
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:53 · Andrew Garfield (0.95)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ Sunset Boulevard (immersive adaptation) · theme · Immersive theater like Punchdrunk gives the same visceral decoding-a-mystery experience as the film's code hunt. · "you feel viscerally involved in decoding some mystery."
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:08:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ Russian Doll · theme · Sean pairs Russian Doll as Garfield's New York with Under the Silver Lake as his LA. · "If Russian doll is my New York under the Silver Lake is sort of my LA."
[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] 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)

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 It Follows (2014); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend It Follows (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.