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, fittingly enough!
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)
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Bob Hope
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Pauline Kael
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Peter Whitney
The Rifleman TV series (1958-63)
Gene Wilder
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Anthony Mann
John Ford
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M. Night Shyamalan
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John Carpenter
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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
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