spiritual sequels/double bills [split topic]

[holyzombiejesus]

Spirit of the Beehive, Whistle Down the Wind and I'm Not Scared

[Sgt. Duckie]

Watched Darkest Hour last night and a friend suggested sticking Dunkirk on afterwards. We didn't but there is a decent double bill there.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

Deray's La Piscine / Ozon's Swimming Pool / Guadagnino's A Bigger Splash

[Jack Shaftoe]

Say Anything > Grosse Point Blank

[Famous Mortimer]

Say Anything > Grosse Point Blank

I suspect the makers of GPB thought so too. They're both great.

[garnish]

Enemy of the State is an odd kind of sequel for Gene Hackman's character in The Conversation.

Edit: it's not explicitly stated that the character is the same, it's just same job/similar personality in both.

[New Jack]

Dazed & Confused's spiritual sequel being Everybody wants Some!! is even the intention from Linklater, so a bit meek for this thread, but the character of Wooderson in the former could actually be Willoughby in the latter

Everybody... Is set a few years after Dazed, and it's established Willoughby is 30 (he's easily mid twenties in Dazed), is virtually the same character, and his real name ain't Willoughby!

I like this possibility.

[Phil_A]

Enemy Mine is like the sequel to Hell In The Pacific...in spaaaaaaaaaace

[thecuriousorange]

Keith Allen is the same, unnamed man in Shallow Grave and Trainspotting. Making it a kind-of-sequel.

Scratch that. Trainspotting is a kind-of-spiritual-prequel. Keith Allen's ghost should have been a drug-induced hallucination in Trainspotting 2.

Imagine how much better Casino would seem if Goodfellas didn't exist.

[DukeDeMondo]

Drag Me To Hell and Jennifer's Body both fit far more comfortably within the Evil Dead universe than does Fede Álvarez's (still pretty good for what it is) 2013 remake.

As for Double Bills, I'd say you could make a right old night of it if you were to throw Evil Dead and Demons on one after the other.

Amityville II: The Possession has a couple utterly stunning virtuosic set pieces that recall ED too, but it doesn't feel very ED-like for the most part, so I'd save that for another day, maybe. Pair it up with Black Sabbath or something like this. I think that would work.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Say Anything > Grosse Point Blank

I'd have gone for Better Off Dead, if only as I like the idea of lovable old Lane Meyer becoming a cold blooded killer after Monique leaves him for a sexier man.

[itsfredtitmus]

Trainspotting = Guy Ritchie
Two Tars = Weekend

[Custard]

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is another that could fit comfortably in the Evil Dead universe

[mothman]

Just yesterday learned that Jordan Peele and Spike Jonze both agree that there is no real reason why Being John Malkovich and Get Out can't be in the same shared universe.