Films like The Hungover Games.

The Hungover Games (2014) reads as Warm, breathless, measured comedy / parody, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold. 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.

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011) poster
1. National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus2011

Keeps the clean studio craft and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Starving Games (2013) poster
2. The Starving Games2013

Keeps the clean studio craft and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Stan Helsing (2009) poster
3. Stan Helsing2009

Keeps the clean studio craft and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Walking Deceased (2015) poster
4. The Walking Deceased2015

Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour; trades toward a chilly detachment.

The Visitors: Bastille Day (2016) poster
5. The Visitors: Bastille Day2016

Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Ghost Team One (2013) poster
6. Ghost Team One2013

Keeps the chilly detachment and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Superfast! (2015) poster
7. Superfast!2015

Keeps the clean studio craft and the chilly detachment; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Date Movie (2006) poster
8. Date Movie2006

Keeps the clean studio craft and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Breaking Wind (2012) poster
9. Breaking Wind2012

Keeps the clean studio craft and the chilly detachment; trades toward a warm emotional register.

Farce of the Penguins (2006) poster
10. Farce of the Penguins2006

Keeps the clean studio craft and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Not Very Normal Activities (2013) poster
11. Not Very Normal Activities2013

Keeps the chilly detachment and the running vein of humour; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films (2011) poster
12. Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films2011

Keeps the clean studio craft and the chilly detachment; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

These are The Hungover Games’s neighbours — where are yours?

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