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)

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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

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