If you loved Robin Hood: Men in Tights, try High Anxiety

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. High Anxiety has roughly 5.7× fewer votes than Robin Hood: Men in Tights — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Mel Brooks, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Robin Hood: Men in Tights, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What High Anxiety is

San Francisco. Foghorns. A skyward glance. Doctor Thorndyke, vertiginous shrink, arrives to helm an asylum rife with oddballs and furtive staff. Something rotten in the state of California. Brooks throws a Hitchcock party, and everyone's invited.

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