‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips!

Jay Kelly 2025

Baumbach's latest; part of why he's leaving Netflix for Warner's Clockwork imprint.

White Noise 2022

The other recent Baumbach that landed softly; Sean's a defender.

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) 2017

Early, well-liked Baumbach-for-Netflix.

Marriage Story 2019

The celebrated one.

The Devils 1971

Ken Russell; Clockwork made its name restoring it, back in theaters in October.

Nasty

Mary Bronstein's follow-up to 'If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You,' at Clockwork; Rose Byrne and Jenna Ortega, produced by Margot Robbie's LuckyChap.

Tiamo

Sean Baker's Anora follow-up, at Clockwork.

Anora 2024

The Baker film Tiamo follows.

The Brigands of Rattle Creek

Park Chan-wook's first English film since Stoker; Zahler script; Butler, McConaughey, Pascal, Adele Exarchopoulos, Tang Wei.

Stoker 2013

Park's last English-language film before this.

The Rip 2026

Cited as the new Netflix mode: programmers over prestige.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019

The Cliff Booth movie continues its story eight years on.

The Further Misadventures of Cliff Booth 2025

Fincher/Pitt, set 1977; IMAX at Thanksgiving, still essentially no trailer two months out.

Barbie 2023

Baumbach and Gerwig reportedly negotiating a sequel with Warner even as he joins Clockwork.

Obsession

Last year's TIFF Midnight Madness sensation, bought by Blumhouse for $15M.

River

New Blumhouse TIFF pickup ($10M), a shutter film reworked; Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe as siblings stalked on a boat.

Miami Vice 85

Joseph Kosinski, Dan Gilroy script; John Leguizamo (likely Calderon) and Alden Ehrenreich cast.

Lone Survivor 2013

Cited for Peter Berg's vision ahead of his Call of Duty movie.

Atomic Blonde 2017

A midnight-madness-delirium casualty from their festival days.

Long Shot 2019

Same category of late-night screening overrating.

Resident Evil 2026

Zach Cregger's third feature, co-written by Shay Hatton; Austin Abrams as a medical courier surviving a Raccoon City outbreak. 87 minutes, gory and funny, breaks every studio rule (kills the dog, the kid, the babies). Both hosts have it in their films of the year.

Resident Evil 2002

Paul W.S. Anderson/Milla Jovovich original; first of six films that grossed over $1B.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City 2021

Johannes Roberts reboot that flopped, released mid-pandemic; more faithful to the games than Cregger's.

Gremlins 1984

Gateway horror for their generation.

The Monster Squad 1987

Ghostbusters 1984

Horror-for-kids that adults love for Venkman.

Shaun of the Dead 2004

On the very short list of gore-and-comedy that actually works.

Fright Night 1985

Also on that short list; Sean flags the 2011 Anton Yelchin/Colin Farrell remake as more serious but still funny.

An American Werewolf in London 1981

The Cabin in the Woods 2012

Clever and amusing, but did it make him laugh?

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 1986

Funny and effective, a great zag from the original, but not a great horror comedy per Sean.

The Return of the Living Dead 1985

Creepshow 1982

Lake Placid 1999

Written comically scene to scene with real gore.

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948

Testing whether it still plays for a kid today.

Frankenstein 1931

No longer scary to little kids.

Young Frankenstein 1974

And no longer reliably funny either, comic sensibilities shift.

Little Shop of Horrors 1986

Kind of funny, kind of horror; scared Sean in third grade.

Scream 1996

Kennedy and Lillard actually make him laugh.

Scream 2 1997

More jokey, leaning into laugh lines, not as funny as the first.

The Evil Dead 1981

Landmark.

Evil Dead II 1987

A masterpiece; the register Cregger cites.

Army of Darkness 1992

Awesome.

Evil Dead Rise 2023

Liked it enough.

Evil Dead Burn 2026

A real drag; good individual kills, tone way off, exactly the ponderous seriousness they're tired of.

Casablanca 1942

Invoked for how foundational and ripped-off the Evil Dead films now are.