If you loved The Black Dahlia, try Raising Cain

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Raising Cain has roughly 3.1× fewer votes than The Black Dahlia — 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 Brian De Palma, and they both carry the paranoid mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Black Dahlia, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Raising Cain is

Upstate New York. Autumn leaves. A child's singsong counting. Carter Nix, devoted spouse and father, is also Cain, his malevolent twin, manipulated by a mad-scientist father. Wifely infidelity triggers a murderous spiral. De Palma's psycho-sexual thriller is best approached as high camp.

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