19: A Surprise Skeleton for my OBGYN
Promising Young Woman and Jennifer's Body: Trauma is complicated but putting men in their place is not.
18: The Creation of the Caterpillar
Big and 13 Going on 30: Adults fall in love with 13-year-olds and for some reason, it’s supposed to be heartwarming.
17: Manscaping: Method Acting’s Sole Benefit
Harold and Maude and Charlie Bartlett: Cat Stevens plays a central role in these films about troubled teenage boys who visit psychiatrists and then use a romantic relationship to avoid their own issues.
16: The Lindsay Lohan Cinematic Universe
Lady Bird and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen: Compulsive liars enter the greater New York City area rebranded with new names and newfound respect for their parents.
15: You Don’t Know Beans About Piggybacking
It Happened One Night and Leap Year: A wealthy woman takes a multi-day trip and gets so unbelievably bored she decides to fall in love with the closest random man.
14: Steve Buscemi: The Perverted Worm
Scott Pilgrim vs The World and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: Shy guys use their video game prowess to get through increasingly harder levels in order to get the girl.
13: The Muffins & The HornDogs
Primary Colors and The Campaign: After facing a scandal involving a politician’s risqué cell phone conversation, a new bumbling candidate joins the race and proves to be a surprising threat.
12: The Zuckoning
The Social Network and Swiped: Three frat boys approach a programmer with an idea for a dating app, but with some misogyny and a spectrum of arrogance, the programmer decides to take that idea into his own hands.
11: The Emergency is Lunch
It's a Wonderful Life and Click: Angels attempt to teach men lessons on what it means to be a good man, to various degrees of success.
10: Just a Hoodie Pocket Full of Loose Brains
Romeo + Juliet and Warm Bodies: Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet that follow one rule: Romeo has to be in a pool.
09: Parkour! In the Library
The Breakfast Club and Lemonade Mouth: Five teens meet in detention and decide that this is somehow enough of a reason to form a relationship (platonic or otherwise).
08: An Emo Fish for my Future Emo Boyfriend
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac: A series of photos makes a couple realize that they have some pretty seriously messed up people in their lives who they then try to forget in unique ways.
07: Folk Horror is Just Scary Cottagecore
Midsommar and The Wicker Man: Our outsider heroes get a VIP pass to a folksy-commune’s hottest party of the summer, though by “hottest party of the summer” they quite literally mean setting their guests on fire.
06: Commit Murder, not to a Relationship
Cabin in the Woods and Scream: Two movies work together to invent a new horror movie trope - acknowledging something is a trope, having other characters make fun of them saying “that’s a horror movie trope, stop being paranoid,” and having the twist be that the trope actually occurs
05: A Series of Uncomfortable Events
The Graduate and Post Grad: College graduates struggling to find purpose after college make questionable and inarguably wrong romantic choices.
04: Schrödinger's A.I. Love Story
Her and Smart House: Two Robots experience a midlife crisis caused by the lack of a physical body needed in order to touch the ones they love (and love to touch).
03: The Batman Holding for the Robin
The Big Sick and If I Stay: Ex-Girlfriends in comas cause character growth for men on the verge of career success.
02: Which Came First, the Vampire or the Plague?
Nosferatu and Twilight: Two absolutely maniac vampires who find what they believe is their demise in a pretty woman.
01: Tap Dancing Over Your Feelings
La La Land and High School Musical: A romantic musical in which a couple’s love is tested when they are forced to choose between their love and their dreams.