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.
Retro Spectacles is less interested in declaring everything from the past either a masterpiece or problematic garbage than figuring out why it worked, whether it still works and what our relationship with it says about us now.
With an emphasis on enjoyment and exploration, but never shying away from criticism, Mitcz & Teddy are two very opinionated media addicts in their 40s who think way too much about everything they’ve watched, heard and experienced.
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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 the doubt. A $1,000 Craigslist gig brings a videographer to an isolated cabin, where every awkward joke and crossed boundary makes staying harder to justify.
Patrick Brice stars as Aaron, hired to film Josef (Mark Duplass), who claims he's making a video for his unborn child. What begins as an uncomfortable but seemingly harmless assignment grows increasingly unsettling as Josef shifts between vulnerable, goofy, and threatening, introducing a disturbing wolf mask called Peachfuzz along the way.
Mitcz and Teddy debate whether Josef is obviously dangerous from the start or just a deeply awkward guy, the warning signs Aaron overlooks, and how Duplass turns social discomfort into genuine dread. They also compare their real-life Craigslist experiences, explore why the film's intimate found-footage approach works, and measure Creep’s influence on “you should have left an hour ago” horror with the Zeitgeistometer.
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28 Oct 2026
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 reputation rests on one of cinema’s most terrifying extraterrestrial encounters, but most of the film plays out as a small-town mystery about what happened to a missing man and whether his friends are telling the truth.
D. B. Sweeney stars as Travis Walton, a logger who disappears after encountering a mysterious light in the Arizona wilderness. Robert Patrick plays Mike Rogers, whose account of the incident brings suspicion, police questioning, and growing hostility toward the surviving crew. James Garner leads the investigation as the film builds toward Travis’s disturbing memories of what happened aboard the spacecraft.
Mitcz and Teddy revisit the abduction sequence that terrified Mitcz as a teenager, debate the film’s uneven balance of horror and human drama, and examine the skepticism surrounding Walton’s account. They also discuss the filmmakers’ creative liberties and measure the film’s influence on alien-abduction nightmares with the Zeitgeistometer.
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22 Oct 2026
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 Dead, the wealthy are still living comfortably behind the walls of Fiddler’s Green while everyone else struggles to survive. Apparently, even the apocalypse can't kill the class divide.
Dennis Hopper plays Kaufman, the ruthless businessman ruling this fortified city. Simon Baker stars as Riley, who designed the armored Dead Reckoning, while John Leguizamo plays Cholo, a hired gun whose dangerous work can't buy him a place among the elite. Outside the walls, an increasingly intelligent zombie horde led by Big Daddy begins exposing just how fragile that supposed sanctuary really is.
Mitcz and Teddy question why money still matters after civilization collapses, unpack Kaufman’s terrible treatment of the people protecting him, and debate whether the zombies are evolving faster than humanity. They also discuss Hopper’s performance, why the movie feels more like action than horror, and whether Romero leaves too much of this fascinating world unexplored. Plus, where Land of the Dead lands on the Zeitgeistometer.
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