What the corpus says about Barbarian (2022)

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

[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:33:14 · unknown (0.50)] Barbarian ↔ Fargo · theme · Barbarian is called a scary movie that is funny with humor from the bizarreness of human behavior, as with the Coens. · "you made a scary movie that was funny."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:00:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Barbarian ⇒ Weapons (the host's read) · people · Sean says Barbarian made Zach Cregger a filmmaker to follow, which paid off with Weapons. · "that really just came to fruition with weapons and the success that Zach Kreiger had with that movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:31:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Crimes of the Future ↔ Barbarian · verdict · Adam has Crimes at five; Sean has Crimes in his top ten, with a strong case for best comedy of the year. · "strong case for best comedy of the year, though it may not feel that way."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:34:40 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Barbarian ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · verdict · Chris says Barbarian was the most fun night of the year at the movies, barring Top Gun: Maverick, which is his number one. · "Also, just the most fun night. I think I had at the movie is barring maybe Top Gun Maverick all year."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:48:20 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Speak No Evil ↔ Barbarian · verdict · Chris notes his list is horror-centric, with Barbarian at five and Speak No Evil at four, calling Speak No Evil the most effective horror film of the year. · "it's probably the most effective horror movie I've seen this year."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:34:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Barbarian ↔ Resident Evil · comedy-horror · Barbarian's Justin Long convertible cut is a horror-comedy peak, but sustaining it is tough. · "barbarian is like the hard cut to Justin Long singing along in the convertible"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:32:37 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Barbarian ↔ Confess, Fletch · second life · Chris says both films moved straight into a second life of people rewatching and finding threads. · "this and Confess Fletch, actually, I would say, are movies that have like kind of immediately moved into their 2nd life"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:02:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Barbarian · fun · Sean begs Bob Iger for a 4K release of Barbarian because it has been three years. · "Bob Iger, if you're listening."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:32:20 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Barbarian · fun · Chris says seeing it was like going to the movies in the 90s, knowing nothing and having your mind blown; Amanda has not seen it and threatens to call it mid. · "going to see movies in the 90s where you just don't know anything about it."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:27:03 · unknown (0.40)] Fargo ↔ Fargo · programming · Jerry's salesman-of-the-month picture behind him is offered as a Fargo secret-handshake prop. · "I would love uh, Jerry's, like, salesman of the month picture that's behind Jerry in Fargo."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Evil Dead II ⇒ Resident Evil (the maker said so: a conversation with Cregger on the show last year) · lineage · Cregger said he wanted an Evil Dead 2 style rock-em sock-em movie and got crazy with the camera. · "I'm doing it because I think this movie is going to be fucking awesome."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:10:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fargo ⇒ Fargo (unaired NBC pilot with Edie Falco) (the host's read) · lineage · An NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco as Marge aired years later; the Coens were not involved. · "There was like an NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco playing Marge Gunderson."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:30:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Charlie Chaplin · lineage · The design recalls Chaplin and Keaton's slip-and-fall, rooted-for ne'er-do-well. · "there's so much Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to me in the design of the movie"
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:40:16 · David Sims (0.40)] Prelude to a Kiss ↔ Fargo · theme · Alec Baldwin treats Prelude to a Kiss as his Fargo, a perfect movie that didn't last. · "as if it was obviously his Fargo."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Thing ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The farmhouse sequence and the dog at the barn are homages to Carpenter's The Thing. · "You can see the homage to Carpenters the Thing in all this part."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:46 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Fargo ↔ The Shining · theme · A carpeted-restaurant joke leads to Kubrick's carpets and a Palm Springs hotel with the same carpet as the Shining hotel. · "I was at a hotel in Palm Springs a few months ago and it has the exact same carpet as the Shining Hotel."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] John Carpenter ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · Carpenter looms over the movie; it sits in a lineage with Romero, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg. · "It's very obvious the way that Carpenter looms over a movie like this."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:34:16 · Zach Cregger (0.70)] Carter Burwell ↔ Fargo · craft · Cregger says the Paul Bunyan statue shot is lit and scored like the scariest thing you have ever seen, with Burwell's score. · "they light it and shoot it like the scariest fucking thing you've ever seen. With the fucking Carter Burwell score"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:23 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ 28 Days Later · lineage · Listed among strands to pull from: Romero zombies, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg body horror. · "You could pull the Romero zombie movies."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:34:54 · Zach Cregger (0.50)] Carter Burwell ↔ Fargo · craft · Burwell's score plays the dread straight and never acknowledges the film's zaniness, its most playful moment being the break-in buildup. · "this movie, with all of the zaniness that's definitely in here. His score never really acknowledges any of it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:54:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ George A. Romero · lineage · The skyscraper stage recalls later Romero films where a whole city is overrun. · "the more elevated later Romero movies where it feels like an entire city has been taken over."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 1:03:01 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims) (0.40)] Roger Deakins ↔ Fargo · craft · The Coens first told Deakins they wanted only fixed shots, then relaxed it as too puritanical, per his commentary as relayed by the hosts. · "they initially told him we only want fixed shots. Like you're doing nothing. And then they realized like that's maybe a little too puritanical."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Die Hard ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass). · "You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:54:57 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Fargo · craft · The hotel scene with the hooker and the TV plays like a direct sequel to the Fargo motel scene. · "But it feels like a direct sequel to the scene in Fargo when they take the 2 prostitutes back to the motel room and then they have that cut to them watching Jay Leno or whatever later that night."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:20:44 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ The Last of Us · lineage · Chris sees it as a breakthrough for video-game films, like The Last of Us for TV. · "I see this movie as, it is the last of us 4 movies"
[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] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[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 Barbarian (2022); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Barbarian (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.

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