Chelsea Stardust

Post Mortem with Mick Garris

Mick Garris

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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From getting her foot in the door working for household names like Ivan Reiman, Judd Apatow, and Jason Blum, to directing not one but TWO movies in a year, we put Chelsea Stardust on the Post Mortem slab to find out how all that experience helped her land Blumhouse's ALL THAT WE DESTROY and Fangoria's SATANIC PANIC -- AND what's next for the burgeoning filmmaker

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0:00.0	You are now listening to post-mortem with Mick Harris, where the most influential voices in horror cinema will spill their guts, literally.
0:11.0	To the renowned horror director, writer, and producer.
0:15.0	Now here's your host, Mick Garris.
0:19.0	I'm Mick Garris and this is post-mortem.
0:22.0	Recently, I've been seeing a lot of online arguing
0:25.2	between horror fans regarding what is or what isn't a horror film, about
0:30.0	whether or not a film is truly a horror movie or just a thriller or
0:33.7	dark drama or fantasy. There are those who Harumf and sniff about Silence of the
0:38.8	Lambs being a thriller. Why? Because there is nothing supernatural about it.
0:43.0	Because there are no vampires, ghosts, radioactive monsters or body morphing monsters.
0:48.0	How about Henry Portrait of a serial killer?
0:50.0	How about the father of the slasher movie psycho? Not a horror film, a thriller. I say nonsense.
0:57.0	I'm not sure why everything needs to be placed into a specific box.
1:01.0	To me, some of the most terrifying and horrific books and movies I've
1:04.8	consumed are set more in the real world than one inhabited by the supernatural. And some of the most
1:10.6	exciting are the ones that mix genres.
1:13.9	Stand by me, based on Stephen King's novella,
1:16.3	The Body and directed by Rob Reiner,
1:18.5	is a heartbreaking drama with a horrific event,
1:21.4	the discovery of a dead body by a group of 12-year-old boys. a Alien is a science fiction film, but it's also a horror movie, a monster movie at that.
1:36.0	Horror chauvinism might make sense to a studio trying to market its film to a specific audience,
1:42.0	but to try and limit what is or isn't a horror movie just seems
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