What the corpus says about Psycho (1960)

The 49 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 (11)

[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:59:13 · unknown (0.40)] Psycho ↔ Bates Motel (TV) · programming · A Psycho series could include Psycho 4 and all five seasons of Bates Motel. · "And we would do all 5 seasons of Bates Motel, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:04:32 · unknown (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Psycho · programming · Robocop has one good covered movie and three bad; Psycho offers more to discuss. · "it is one good movie we have covered and 3 bad, whereas Psycho, it's like, there's a lot of interesting shit there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:34:48 · unknown (0.30)] The Exorcist ↔ Psycho · programming · The Exorcist beat Psycho in the horror region; the hosts want to do Psycho too. · "He came down to Exorcist and Psycho, which personally, I was very pleased with."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:46:08 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Psycho · lineage · Pamela's killer-mom, recalls Norman Bates and Mommy Dearest. · "Pamela kind of reminds me of going even back to like Manchurian, Canada, or like Mommy Dearest"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:40:31 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Psycho · lineage · Killing Travolta halfway through is compared to Janet Leigh dying in Psycho. · "there are a lot of moments in this movie that remind me of Psycho"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Psycho · lineage · Panic Room is to Fight Club as Psycho is to North by Northwest: a small, single-location B movie after a big sprawling one. · "But really it's like, it's Hitchcock doing Psycho right after North by Northwest."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Psycho ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Killing off Kristin Scott Thomas's star-billed character early mirrors Psycho killing Janet Leigh. · "it's completely Hitchcocky and it's killing Janet Lee after 40 minutes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:16:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Psycho · verdict · On the movie-murderer Mount Rushmore, Norman Bates and Lecter go up there; Bill picks Myers because of the body of work. · "I think the answer is probably Myers because of the body of work."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:58:57 · unknown (0.40)] Psycho ↔ Rocky · verdict · Psycho beat Rocky 51 to 49. · "Psycho beat Rocky 51 to 49%."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:42:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Witness for the Prosecution ↔ Psycho · industry · Both asked audiences not to spoil the twist; Witness did it in 1957. · "please do not spoil the murder"

Fun items about it (1)

[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:05:36 · unknown (0.40)] Psycho · fun · A Psycho series bit: rocking chairs and recording in a bathroom. · "Wait, we should just record the whole episode in a bathroom."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (32)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:36:05 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Friday the 13th Part 2 · programming · Parts 2 and 3 open with the final minutes of the previous film to deliver an early kill. · "the sequels, especially 2 and 3, open with the last 10 minutes of the previous movie to get a killing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Mission: Impossible · programming · 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day. · "So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Bird Box · programming · Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version. · "But I think this is the really well-done version of it."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:30:35 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Meatballs · programming · Summer-camp movies and Halloween ripoffs are named as categories Friday belongs to. · "Halloween ripoff movies, this definitely."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read) · lineage · Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark. · "I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:40:21 · unknown (0.35)] Friday the 13th ↔ A Nightmare on Elm Street · programming · Double-feature pick: Nightmare on Elm Street 2, called a nice bookend for this one. · "I went Nightmare on Elm Street too, which is an underrated nightmare on Elm Street."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Fast and the Furious ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action. · "the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Succession · programming · As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession. · "but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:43:55 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Friday the 13th · programming · Because it was available on multiple streaming services, Friday lived on in a way Hellraiser and Leprechaun did not. · "Friday, probably because of its availability on like multiple streaming services, I think, has just kind of lived on."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Rififi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound. · "my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Rope · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:03:47 · unknown (0.40)] Friday the 13th ⇒ Friday the 13th Part 2 (the host's read) · lineage · Part 2 essentially redoes the first film with a better bad guy and a little more money. · "I think the 2nd one almost stands in as like, let's redo the 1st one, but make the bad guy even better."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:46:08 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jaws · lineage · A political awards category was suggested, recalling a Jaws episode on Amity's campaign. · "between this and you outlining Quince campaign in Amity for the Jaws rewatchables, we should have some sort of political category here."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Lifeboat · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:11:58 · unknown (0.30)] Meatballs ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Meatballs was as much an influence on the camp setting and look as Halloween was. · "I think carrying meatballs were equally influential as Halloween is on this."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Topkapi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Langley heist is an homage to the Jules Dassin heist classics Topkapi and Rififi. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics of uh, top copy and uh, Rafifi."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs. · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:21:41 · unknown (0.50)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 opens by wiping out the status quo that ended Aliens. · "Seconds of this movie, it literally just burns the status quo established at the end of the last one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:17:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Halloween ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Friday the 13th was an openly shameless Halloween ripoff, built on Halloween's success. · "We have to talk about how this was the most unabashed ripoff movie probably of all time."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jules Dassin ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Dassin's heist classics are the model for the Langley break-in. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah). · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:58:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Bishop remains scene echoes the original film's reactivated-android scene. · "And just kind of a fun throwback to the, uh, original alien thing where you like take the puppet, you kind of get it ready."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:18:11 · unknown (0.30)] Meatballs ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch was Halloween crossed with the summer-camp comedy Meatballs. · "And it was basically Halloween crossed meatballs, ends up getting the money"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 1:06:25 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] The Lady Vanishes ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The European mystery shades of the film recall The Lady Vanishes and Shadow of a Doubt. · "Lady Vanishes or, or, uh, even like Shadow of a Doubt in some respects"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:30:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Panic Room ↔ Charles Bronson · lineage · A regular person put in danger who has to knuckle up, like a Charles Bronson movie. · "This is kind of like a Charles Bronson movie in a way"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] 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] Matt Singer · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · Author of Opposable Thumbs, a book about Siskel and Ebert; has seen both cuts of Alien 3 and owns the Quadrilogy box set. Loves Siskel and Ebert as a gateway to movies; likes the show more than the movies as a kid. Attribution is inferred. · stances: He watched both cuts of Alien 3 for the episode; Praises the Siskel and Ebert show as a form of film discussion

The shows' running bits (2)

[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)

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 Psycho (1960) 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 Psycho (1960) 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 · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:59:13 · unknown (0.40)] Psycho ↔ Bates Motel (TV) · programming · A Psycho series could include Psycho 4 and all five seasons of Bates Motel. · "And we would do all 5 seasons of Bates Motel, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:04:32 · unknown (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Psycho · programming · Robocop has one good covered movie and three bad; Psycho offers more to discuss. · "it is one good movie we have covered and 3 bad, whereas Psycho, it's like, there's a lot of interesting shit there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:34:48 · unknown (0.30)] The Exorcist ↔ Psycho · programming · The Exorcist beat Psycho in the horror region; the hosts want to do Psycho too. · "He came down to Exorcist and Psycho, which personally, I was very pleased with."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:46:08 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Psycho · lineage · Pamela's killer-mom, recalls Norman Bates and Mommy Dearest. · "Pamela kind of reminds me of going even back to like Manchurian, Canada, or like Mommy Dearest"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:40:31 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Psycho · lineage · Killing Travolta halfway through is compared to Janet Leigh dying in Psycho. · "there are a lot of moments in this movie that remind me of Psycho"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Psycho · lineage · Panic Room is to Fight Club as Psycho is to North by Northwest: a small, single-location B movie after a big sprawling one. · "But really it's like, it's Hitchcock doing Psycho right after North by Northwest."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Psycho ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Killing off Kristin Scott Thomas's star-billed character early mirrors Psycho killing Janet Leigh. · "it's completely Hitchcocky and it's killing Janet Lee after 40 minutes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:16:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Psycho · verdict · On the movie-murderer Mount Rushmore, Norman Bates and Lecter go up there; Bill picks Myers because of the body of work. · "I think the answer is probably Myers because of the body of work."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:58:57 · unknown (0.40)] Psycho ↔ Rocky · verdict · Psycho beat Rocky 51 to 49. · "Psycho beat Rocky 51 to 49%."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:42:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Witness for the Prosecution ↔ Psycho · industry · Both asked audiences not to spoil the twist; Witness did it in 1957. · "please do not spoil the murder"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:05:36 · unknown (0.40)] Psycho · fun · A Psycho series bit: rocking chairs and recording in a bathroom. · "Wait, we should just record the whole episode in a bathroom."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:36:05 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Friday the 13th Part 2 · programming · Parts 2 and 3 open with the final minutes of the previous film to deliver an early kill. · "the sequels, especially 2 and 3, open with the last 10 minutes of the previous movie to get a killing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Mission: Impossible · programming · 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day. · "So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Bird Box · programming · Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version. · "But I think this is the really well-done version of it."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:30:35 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Meatballs · programming · Summer-camp movies and Halloween ripoffs are named as categories Friday belongs to. · "Halloween ripoff movies, this definitely."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read) · lineage · Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark. · "I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:40:21 · unknown (0.35)] Friday the 13th ↔ A Nightmare on Elm Street · programming · Double-feature pick: Nightmare on Elm Street 2, called a nice bookend for this one. · "I went Nightmare on Elm Street too, which is an underrated nightmare on Elm Street."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Fast and the Furious ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action. · "the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Succession · programming · As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession. · "but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:43:55 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Friday the 13th · programming · Because it was available on multiple streaming services, Friday lived on in a way Hellraiser and Leprechaun did not. · "Friday, probably because of its availability on like multiple streaming services, I think, has just kind of lived on."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Rififi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound. · "my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Rope · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:03:47 · unknown (0.40)] Friday the 13th ⇒ Friday the 13th Part 2 (the host's read) · lineage · Part 2 essentially redoes the first film with a better bad guy and a little more money. · "I think the 2nd one almost stands in as like, let's redo the 1st one, but make the bad guy even better."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:46:08 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jaws · lineage · A political awards category was suggested, recalling a Jaws episode on Amity's campaign. · "between this and you outlining Quince campaign in Amity for the Jaws rewatchables, we should have some sort of political category here."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Lifeboat · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:11:58 · unknown (0.30)] Meatballs ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Meatballs was as much an influence on the camp setting and look as Halloween was. · "I think carrying meatballs were equally influential as Halloween is on this."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Topkapi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Langley heist is an homage to the Jules Dassin heist classics Topkapi and Rififi. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics of uh, top copy and uh, Rafifi."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs. · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:21:41 · unknown (0.50)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 opens by wiping out the status quo that ended Aliens. · "Seconds of this movie, it literally just burns the status quo established at the end of the last one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:17:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Halloween ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Friday the 13th was an openly shameless Halloween ripoff, built on Halloween's success. · "We have to talk about how this was the most unabashed ripoff movie probably of all time."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jules Dassin ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Dassin's heist classics are the model for the Langley break-in. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah). · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:58:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Bishop remains scene echoes the original film's reactivated-android scene. · "And just kind of a fun throwback to the, uh, original alien thing where you like take the puppet, you kind of get it ready."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:18:11 · unknown (0.30)] Meatballs ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch was Halloween crossed with the summer-camp comedy Meatballs. · "And it was basically Halloween crossed meatballs, ends up getting the money"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 1:06:25 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] The Lady Vanishes ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The European mystery shades of the film recall The Lady Vanishes and Shadow of a Doubt. · "Lady Vanishes or, or, uh, even like Shadow of a Doubt in some respects"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:30:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Panic Room ↔ Charles Bronson · lineage · A regular person put in danger who has to knuckle up, like a Charles Bronson movie. · "This is kind of like a Charles Bronson movie in a way"
[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] 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] Matt Singer · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · Author of Opposable Thumbs, a book about Siskel and Ebert; has seen both cuts of Alien 3 and owns the Quadrilogy box set. Loves Siskel and Ebert as a gateway to movies; likes the show more than the movies as a kid. Attribution is inferred. · stances: He watched both cuts of Alien 3 for the episode; Praises the Siskel and Ebert show as a form of film discussion
[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 Psycho (1960); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Psycho (1960) 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.