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Post Mortem with Mick Garris

Ask Mick Anything

Post Mortem with Mick Garris

Dread Central

Arts, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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NEW bonus content! FUN SIZE Post Mortem: Ask Mick Anything —  On today’s episode Mick answers questions about dealing with extreme weather on a film set, why Stephen King was cut from The Shining mini-series and more.POST MORTEM WITH MICK GARRIS on the FANGORIA Podcast Network.

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:24.8

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0:28.9

and you'll see bylines that will leave your jaw on the floor, like Barbara Crampton.

0:34.3

And the best part, it's print only, just like the old days.

0:38.8

Go to Fangoria.com to subscribe today.

0:45.4

Hi, I'm McGarris, and this is Postmortem AMA, our fun-sized show where you can ask me anything.

0:53.6

We run this on alternating weeks between the

0:56.3

interview shows, and it's your opportunity to ask me anything you'd like, and I might even answer

1:03.4

them. So normally this is moderated by my producer Joe Russo, but Joe, I'm happy to say,

1:09.5

is on location directing his first film, and I could not be

1:14.2

happier for him or send him better wishes than I have for him right now, and I know all of you

1:20.7

share in that. However, that leaves me on my own, and so I'm going to answer your questions

1:27.0

directly. The first one from Devon Graham-Scar,

1:32.0

who asks, did you take that classic photo of Cronenberg with his bloody film canisters? And if so,

1:39.8

what is the story behind it? Well, that requires a little bit of backstory.

1:45.0

Way back around 1980 or so, when I was doing my Z channel interview show, which was for Los Angeles' first pay TV channel,

1:54.0

I started doing genre publicity for a scrappy little company called Avco Embassy Pictures. And Avco Embassy at the time

2:03.1

was the leading film distributor for independent horror films. They had movies by John Carpenter,

2:11.1

David Cronenberg, Don Coscarelli, Joe Dante, and I was fortunate enough to be involved in doing some work in all of those, doing specialized genre publicity for the genre magazines and for the various conventions and festivals around.

2:27.3

So one of my first assignments was Scanners, and I got to work with David, David, who lives in Toronto, was visiting Los Angeles

2:36.2

to do publicity for the movie, and we had set up a photo shoot with him, so I did not take

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