Inappropriate Film Double-Bills

[Minty]

Lying in bed, plagued by my perennial insomnia recently my mind turned to inappropriate film double bills, prompted by a recent discussion on the Mark Kermode Radio 5 film podcast and a recent conversation I had with my brothers girlfriend. She explained that when she was a teenager and had sleepovers with her friends, one of the rules was that you had to watch a 'girly' film and a 'scary' film. 'Ah, you mean like 'Dirty Dancing' and 'Make Them Die Slowly?' I enquired. Or 'Ghost' and 'SS Experimentation Camp'? my brother chipped in so here are some that recently made me giggle:

Can you think of any more?

'Airplane' & 'United 93′
'Notting Hill' & 'Nil By Mouth'
'The Brood' & 'Juno'
'Schindlers List' & 'Life is Beautiful'
'Trainspotting' & 'The Railway Children'
'Toy Story' & 'Child's Play'
'Lassie' & 'Cujo'


Can you think of any more?

[pulsifer]

How about "Xtro" and "Tootsie"?

According to Roger Ebert:

At the theater where I saw it, "Xtro" was on a double bill with "Tootsie." Why? Possibly because a booker thought the combo of a third-run hit comedy and a first-run thriller might attract audiences. On a Sunday afternoon, the audiences that turned up for "Tootsie" were rather nonplused by "Xtro's" pulsating slime and bloody little kids. It's movies like this that give movies a bad name.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Monsters Inc. followed by Monster.
Portrait of a Lady followed by Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

[Famous Mortimer]

Mask and Mask.

[no_offenc]

Mary Poppins and I Spit On Your Grave.

[hpmons]

Sister Act and A Tale of Two Sisters

The City of Lost Children and Salo

A Midsummer Night's Dream and Requiem for a Dream

[Godzilla Bankrolls]

Mask and Mask.

As the tags point out, this thread rips off L&H's Radio 1 shows. But you've (almost very nearly) ripped off Peter Baynham's excellent suggestion! His was actually Mask and The Mask.

[Ginyard]

Babe followed by Deliverance

Malcolm X followed by The Jazz singer (1927)

[Small Man Big Horse]

Do The Right Thing followed by The Birth Of A Nation.

[Ginyard]

Bicentennial Man and Demon Seed

The Goonies followed by Lord of the Flies

EDIT: maybe the other way round

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Grindhouse followed by the extended edition of Lord of the Rings. Toilet breaks will not be allowed.

[Ginyard]

Philadelphia followed by Dawn of the dead

[Moribunderast]

Pay It Forward and Irreversible.

Cars followed by Crash (Cronenberg version)

American Pie and If...

Matilda / Pan's Labyrinth.

Milo and Otis and The Warzone.

[Famous Mortimer]

As the tags point out, this thread rips off L&H's Radio 1 shows. But you've (almost very nearly) ripped off Peter Baynham's excellent suggestion! His was actually Mask and The Mask.

I thought it was too clever to have come from my brain, I did hear that show back in the day and it must have stuck somewhere. Ah bugger. That thing was just double bills that had nothing to do with each other rather than inappropriate ones though, wasn't it? So much like the alien they had on TMWRNJ, it's just different enough to avoid being sued.

Birth of a Nation and Sweet Sweetback's Badaaaass Song.

EDIT: Shit, I was beaten to it three posts up!! Will I ever have an original thought?

Torch Song Trilogy and Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector.

Dawn Of The Dead and The Dead.

[thehungerartist]

The Aristocats followed by The Aristocrats.

[Ginyard]

Babel followed by The Big Bus

[Ginyard]

The Queen followed by Lady Sonia Femdom queen tied up

[Famous Mortimer]

"Kids followed by Glitter" just had me laughing for about 5 minutes. Brilliant.

[Egyptian Feast]

The most inappropriate double-bill I could imagine:

Babette's Feast followed by SWAP.avi

Guaranteed to have them puking in the aisles.

[samadriel]

Babe followed by Deliverance

Babe/Lord of the Flies, surely.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

The Rebel followed by Hancock

Capricorn One followed by Moonwalker

The Sound Of Music followed by Ilsa, She-Wolf Of The SS

Sea Biscuit followed By Caligula  

[Minty]

Some gems posted, many thanks:

'Herbie' & 'Christine'

and just to lower the tone and kill the thread:

'Home Alone' & 'The Woodsman'

[Geraint]

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and La Cabina

[chocky909]

A musical double bill: Mary Poppins followed by Dancer In The Dark

Pixar's Cars followed by Taxi Driver.

Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Café then Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead.

American Pie followed by Pi

High School Musical 2 and Chopper.

Lemony Snicket's 'A Series Of Unfortunate Events' and United 93.

[Santa's Boyfriend]

Dumbo followed by Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend.

[Dragon]

"A Bug's Life" followed by "Them!".

[Caroline]

"Kids followed by Glitter" just had me laughing for about 5 minutes. Brilliant.

Does anyone fancy explaining this to a moron? Or is it just that Kids is a bit bleak and Glitter is presumably fairly frivolous?

[gmoney]

Does anyone fancy explaining this to a moron? Or is it just that Kids is a bit bleak and Glitter is presumably fairly frivolous?

Kids followed by (Gary) Glitter

[Caroline]

D'oh!

[uncle_rico]

How about "Xtro" and "Tootsie"?

According to Roger Ebert:

Makes sense to me. Isn't there a scene in Xtro, where a woman gives birth to a fully grown man?

Maybe the cinema manager thought that it was the anti -thesis of Tootsie in a metaphorical sense, and decided pairing it up? Either that or he had a really warped sense of humour?