178. Mick Garris

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

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Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Writer, director and producer Mick Garris ("The Stand," "Psycho IV," "Stephen King's The Shining") joins Gilbert and Frank to weigh in on a host of horror-related topics, including the cordiality of Vincent Price, the bravado of Christopher Lee, the generosity of Forrest J. Ackerman and the "ampleness" of Lon Chaney Jr. Also, Stanley Kubrick ditches the script, Martin Scorsese clears the set, Gilbert hangs with Tobe Hooper and Mick remembers the late, great William Schallert. PLUS: "Rod Serling's Night Gallery"! "Exorcist II: The Heretic"! Bea Arthur meets R2-D2! Mick wins over Norman Bates! And the golden age of horror anthologies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Gilbert Gottfried, this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my
0:28.4	co-host Frank Santobadre, where once again recording at Nutmeg with our engineer Frank
0:35.1	Ferdarosa. Our guest this week is a writer, author, producer, film historian and podcaster and
0:44.1	the director of popular movies, television shows and mini-series. His TV work includes episodes
0:53.5	of Steven Spielberg's amazing stories. Freddie's Nightmares tells from the crib,
1:01.5	Freddie Little Laiers Ravenswood and once upon a time as well as two terrific horror and
1:11.0	anthology series of his own creation, Showtime's Master Topara and NBC's Fear itself. Notable feature
1:23.4	films include The Play 2, Psycho 4, Battery's Not Included, Critter's 2 and The Disney Comedy
1:34.8	Hocus Pocus with longtime friend and colleague Steven King. He collaborated on the movies,
1:44.0	Sleepwalkers and Desperation as well as the mini-series, Pegabones and Steven King's The Shining
1:55.6	and The Stand. One of the highest rated mini-series in television history. He's also a skilled
2:06.3	interviewer and the host of his own podcast called Post Mordor, which features interviews with
2:14.6	horror legends such as John Coffenter, Roger Corman, The Lake West Craven and Toby Hooper,
2:25.8	who once I had lunch with me, Peg. You want more? He's the author of the book's ugly
2:38.6	development tale and a life in the cinema, a member of the board of directors of the Hollywood
2:47.3	horror museum along with our previous podcast guests, Joe Dante, Victoria Price and Sarah
2:58.7	Karloff and perhaps most important to your struly, he also happens to be something of an expert
3:10.0	on the life of my very favorite actor, Lon Cheney Jr. Please welcome to the show, a man who
3:21.8	must be a Mark's brothers fan because he was once in a rock band called the Horse Feathers Quartet.
3:31.9	Quintet. Quintet. I'll fuck up more and I only have one sentence to go. I think the show's half over.
3:39.7	Yeah, this is longer than the stand. A man of many talents and a full-fledged horror ambassador,
3:48.1	Mick Garrus. Thank you. Gee, wow. The kindest and longest introduction I've ever had. Well,
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