Wes Craven

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q223992: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Reservoir Dogs (1992); Obsession (2025). Count them as director (5 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

City on Fire (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: City on Fire ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). City on Fire contains huge parts of Reservoir Dogs, which raises the homage-versus-theft question.
    “This might make you mad to watch this movie because City on Fire is Reservoir Dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:12 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Django (1966): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: Django ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). Corbucci's 1966 Django is credited as an inspiration for the torture scene.
    “Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Hard Boiled (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo.
    “I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

John Woo: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: John Woo ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). The Mexican standoff was the first visual reference the speaker caught: like a John Woo Hong Kong action movie.
    “It was very like John Wu Hong Kong action movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Smile (2022): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Obsession (2025), which they were tied to as hypothetical director of Obsession 30 years ago: Smile ⇒ Obsession (the host's read). Even more so it borrows from the original Smile: what if a person stared at the camera.
    “Well, very much from the original smile.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:44:33 · Adam Nayman (0.55 sure it was them)

Smile 2: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Obsession (2025), which they were tied to as hypothetical director of Obsession 30 years ago: Smile 2 ⇒ Obsession (the host's read). Obsession takes its sound design and camera movement from Smile 2.
    “obsession is certainly grabbing quite a bit in terms of its mechanical decision making from smile to.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:44:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

The Big Combo (1955): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: The Big Combo ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). Per the host's notes, The Big Combo and Corbucci's Django inspired the scene of a cop torturing a chair (sic).
    “Joseph H. Lewis's filmed the big combo and Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

The Blair Witch Project (1999): 1 line

  1. unmapped (forerunner) · through Obsession (2025), which they were tied to as hypothetical director of Obsession 30 years ago: The Blair Witch Project ⇒ Obsession (the host's read). Blair Witch is named a forbear of a word-of-mouth phenomenon among young people.
    “obviously the Blair Witch Project is a forbear here in a lot of ways.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:08:44 · unknown (Griffin or Sean) (0.40 sure it was them)

The Killing (1956): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads). Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff.
    “but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). The color-name aliases were first seen in Pelham; called a great homage.
    “It's just a great homage, great Walter Mathow in taking Pelham one, 2, 3.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Video Archives: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: Video Archives ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). Tarantino distilled the video-store aesthetic into the film; he programmed shelves like a film festival.
    “he talks about how he used to program shelves at the video story worked at as if it was like a film festival.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:14:17 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Pulp Fiction (1994): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read). Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs.
    “Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)

Swingers (1996): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Swingers (the host's read). Swingers openly ripped off the opening credit strut and joked about everyone copying Tarantino.
    “The opening credit sequence is really fun to watch after swingers blatantly ripped it off”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Farewell (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ The Farewell (the host's read). The slow-motion group walk in The Farewell echoes the Reservoir Dogs shot, which remains influential.
    “And that shot is still really influential.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read). Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era.
    “kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Very Bad Things (1998): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as walked out of a screening: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read). Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends.
    “Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (6) everyone in directing

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Wes Craven → Music of the Heart. Craven didn't want to be known only as a horror maestro, hence the Meryl Streep drama.
    “Wes Craven always had a very complicated relationship to horror.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:29:05 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (studio interference): Deadly Friend → Wes Craven. Craven's Deadly Friend got pickups after the studio demanded a basketball be thrown through someone's head.
    “Number 8 is a Deadly Friend, the insane West Craven movie, where someone throws a basketball through a woman's whole head.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 3:13:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Reservoir Dogs → Wes Craven. Wes Craven and Rick Baker walked out of a screening.
    “Wes Craven walked out of my movie, the guy who did last house on the left, walked out of my movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:03 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Red Eye → Wes Craven. Red Eye is a Wes Craven movie.
    “Very good movie, Wes Craven movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:07:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (timelessness): Obsession → Wes Craven. Obsession is a hook movie Wes Craven could have made 30 years ago, not tied to this moment.
    “Wes Craven could have made this movie 30 years ago.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:12:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

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