Films like High School of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead.

High School of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead (2011) reads as Warm, breathless, measured comedy / animation, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie (2013) poster
1. Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie2013

Keeps the airy, open telling and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) poster
2. My Super Ex-Girlfriend2006

Keeps the airy, open telling and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Vamp U (2013) poster
3. Vamp U2013

Keeps the airy, open telling and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bad Johnson (2014) poster
4. Bad Johnson2014

Keeps the airy, open telling and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

A Little Bit Zombie (2012) poster
5. A Little Bit Zombie2012

Keeps the airy, open telling and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a deep human warmth.

Dead Before Dawn (2012) poster
6. Dead Before Dawn2012

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Hell Baby (2013) poster
7. Hell Baby2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Black Sheep (2006) poster
8. Black Sheep2006

Keeps the airy, open telling and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Suck (2009) poster
9. Suck2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust (2008) poster
10. Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust2008

Keeps the airy, open telling and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Hansel and Gretel Get Baked (2013) poster
11. Hansel and Gretel Get Baked2013

Keeps the airy, open telling and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016) poster
12. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again2016

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are High School of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead’s neighbours — where are yours?

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