BUGONIA writer Will Tracy

The Movies That Made Me

SpectreVision Radio

Tv & Film, Film History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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BUGONIA screenwriter Will Tracy talks to The Movies That Made Me podcast hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante about his 10 favorite "held captive" movies! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) You Only Live Twice (1967) Bugonia (2025) Save the Green Planet! (2003) The Menu (2022) Murder, He Says (1945) After Hours (1985) Something Wild (1986) The Ghost Breakers (1940) Hold That Ghost (1941) Ace in the Hole (1951) Young Frankenstein (1974) Haunted Honeymoon (1986) Videodrome (1983) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) The Naked Spur (1953) Reign of Terror, a.k.a. The Black Book (1949) El Cid (1961) A Man Escaped (1956) Phone Booth (2002) Lifeboat (1944) Devil (2010) Zone of Interest (2023) The Exterminating Angel (1962) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) No Exit (1962) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Abigail’s Party (1977) Rio Bravo (1959) Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) The Last Detail (1973) Innerspace (1987) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) The King of Comedy (1982) Misery (1990) Gerald’s Game (2017) Funny Games (1997) Funny Games (2007) The Last House on the Left (1972) The Vanishing (1988) The Vanishing (1991) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Rear Window (1954) Vertigo (1958) North By Northwest (1959) Captive Wild Woman (1943) Captive Women (1952) The Petrified Forest (1936) Last Stop in Yuma County (2023) Key Largo (1948) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) The Incident (1967) Collateral (2004) One Battle After Another (2025) A History of Violence (2005) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! The Hollywood Food Coalition Phillip Kaufman Beverly Garland Yorgos Lanthimos James Bond TFH Guru Illeana Douglas Stavros Halkias The Cum Town podcast Our Chapo Trap House podcast episode Matt Christman Our Andrew Hickie podcast episodes A History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast Daniel Waters Our Ari Aster podcast episodes Our Brian Helgeland podcast episode George Marshall Fred MacMurray Marjorie Main The Ma and Pa Kettle movies Bob Hope Paulette Godard Pauline Kael Helen Walker Bonnie Parker Peter Whitney The Rifleman TV series (1958-63) Gene Wilder Robert Ryan James Stewart Ralph Meeker Anthony Mann John Ford William Cameron Menzies Robert Bresson TFH Guru Larry Cohen M. Night Shyamalan Jonathan Glazer Luis Buñuel Lee Grant Joseph Strick John Carpenter Dean Martin Hal Ashby Robert Towne Jack Nicholson Randy Quaid Dennis Quaid Jesse Plemons Aidan Delbis Sandra Bernhardt Robert De Niro Jerry Lewis Rob Reiner Stephen King William Goldman James Caan Kathy Bates Mike Flanagan Carla Gugino Misery novel by Stephen King (1987) Gerald’s Game novel by Stephen King (1992) Michael Haneke Elmer Fudd Jang Joon-hwan Alfred Hitchcock Peter Lorre Orson Welles Ingmar Bergman Woody Allen Charlie Chaplin Michelangelo Antonioni Cary Grant Larry Peerce Paul Thomas Anderson Larry McMurtry Diana Ossana Clint Eastwood Lauren Bacall William Hurt This list is also available on Letterboxd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.5	This is The Movies That Made Me with your hosts, Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
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0:55.0	Uh, that, I got, what have I got?
1:13.8	I got a vizier the saucer man here, and I got some, I got a seed pod.
1:19.2	Oh, you do have seed pod.
1:21.0	Oh, that's that from the Kaufman?
1:23.6	No, it's from Gromons 2.
1:26.2	Oh, wow.
1:27.1	Of course, great, of course.
1:29.3	You can't see because of the reflection, but James Bond is hanging at an angle here,
1:34.8	and he has prehensile toes.
1:38.3	He always tells people this, but you can never see it because there's always a reflection
1:42.0	in it.
1:42.6	We'll have to believe you.
1:44.5	Look up the poster, it's mind-ball. It's like people looked at that and went, yeah, that's normal.
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