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Retro Spectacles

Looking Back on Pop Culture with Really Cool Glasses

Retro Spectacles is a pop culture podcast looking back at the movies, TV shows, music, celebrities, trends and cultural moments that defined their time — or disappeared almost as quickly as they arrived.

Comedians Mitcz Marzoni and Teddy Tutson are on a mission to look back at least 10 years at a time, revisiting cult classics, hidden gems, forgotten movies and TV shows, nostalgic favorites, career peaks, spectacular failures and the pop culture phenomena we still can’t stop talking about. Along the way, they dig into film and TV history, music, comedy, celebrity careers, behind-the-scenes stories and the cultural context that explains why things popped off the way they did...

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Ep 37

Alien: The Sci-Fi Nightmare Where Ripley Was Right All Along

Alien: The Sci-Fi Nightmare Where Ripley Was Right All Along

Retro Spooktacles concludes One Building, One Nightmare with Mitcz’s pick, Alien, Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic where Ellen Ripley’s insistence on basic quarantine protocol turns out to be the best advice nobody follows. The Nostromo crew just wants to...

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Ep 36

Hush: The Best Argument Against Living Alone In The Woods

Retro Spooktacles enters its final theme, One Building, One Nightmare, with Teddy’s pick, Hush, Mike Flanagan’s 2016 home-invasion thriller that makes a persuasive case against living alone in the woods. ...
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Ep 35

Creep : How Long Is Too Long To Trust A Stranger?

Retro Spooktacles continues Wrong Place, Wrong Time with Teddy’s pick, Creep, Patrick Brice’s 2014 found-footage horror film that asks how long you can keep giving a stranger the benefit of ...
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Ep 34

Fire In The Sky : The Abduction Scene That Overshadowed The Movie

Retro Spooktacles moves into Wrong Place, Wrong Time with Mitcz’s pick, Fire in the Sky, the 1993 sci-fi thriller inspired by Travis Walton’s reported 1975 alien abduction in Arizona. Its ...
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Ep 33

Land of the Dead: The Zombie Apocalypse Has A VIP Section

Retro Spooktacles continues Rich People Are F’n Evil with Mitcz’s pick, Land of the Dead, George A. Romero’s 2005 return to his zombie universe. Twenty years after Day of the ...
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Ep 32

Would You Rather: The Dinner Party Where The Rich Always Win

Retro Spooktacles enters Rich People Are F’n Evil with Teddy’s pick, Would You Rather, David Guy Levy’s 2012 psychological horror thriller about a wealthy philanthropist who turns financial desperation into ...
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Ep 31

The Strangers: When Random Violence Comes Knocking

Retro SPOOKtacles continues The Monster Is People theme with Teddy’s pick, The Strangers, Brian Bertino’s 2008 home-invasion horror film built around a terrifying possibility: sometimes the worst thing that can ...
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Ep 30

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Blueprint For Modern Horror

Retro Spooktacles moves into The Monster Is People theme with Mitcz’s pick, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper’s groundbreaking 1974 horror classic that helped establish the blueprint for modern horror. ...
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Ep 29

Beetlejuice : The Movie That Made Hollywood Bet On Tim Burton

Retro Spooktacles continues its Halloween Classics theme with Mitcz’s pick, Beetlejuice, the bizarre 1988 horror comedy that proved Tim Burton’s strangest instincts could work on a mainstream scale. The movie ...
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