You are now listening to post-mortem with Mick Harris, where the most influential voices in horror cinema will spill their guts, literally.

To the renowned horror director, writer, and producer.

Now here's your host, Mick Garris.

I'm Mick Garris and from the lonely Nice Guy Productions world headquarters overlooking the devastated San Fernando Valley, this is post-mortem.

Once again, we are highlighting the work of a terrific filmmaker from another country.

I try to do this as often as possible as I think it's important to share creative work from

places other than home.

Internationally, our genre has allowed numerous creatives to express themselves in independent ways

that seem to allow more freedom to stretch the boundaries of imagination than here in the United States.

Yes we have lots of profoundly talented

homegrown artists here and their work is often as wildly freewheeling as

anywhere else. But that's rarely the case for genre films in theaters here in America.

The studios are profoundly cautious, wanting to appeal to the lowest common denominator to achieve maximum box office. You can't blame them. It's

hugely expensive to make and especially market movies in the US. It's also true in other countries.

However, you will find more creative reach in many of the genre films outside our borders

because the foreign audiences tend to embrace them.

Not everywhere, of course.

Many countries are extremely tight when it comes to censorship.

However, some of the most startling and Polish genre films I've seen from beyond our borders come from Latin America Spain the UK Australia South Korea among others

I've been lucky enough to see the work by amazing filmmakers at genre festivals around the world.

Jennifer Kent, Isa Lopez, Chan Wook Park,

Bong Jun Ho, Neil Marshall, and countless others.

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