I'm McGarrison this is post-mortem and it's a very special bonus episode of post-mortem

this week. I'm not going to do the usual philosophical introduction about the state of the horror genre because we're here

for a celebration.

This is the 30th anniversary of my first feature film as a director, Critters II.

And so we have gathered some of the luminaries from that film to

help celebrate this happy birthday with a cake and everything. I had established myself in a writing career. I had worked for Stephen Spielberg on amazing stories. I'd started writing movies like

hocus pocus on the fly too and I was starting to get people to make directing offers and it was very intimidating.

There were some big budget movies that people asked if I was into and I thought,

oh God, special effects, stunts, animals, things, that's way too difficult.

I don't want my first movie to be that difficult.

So instead, the first greenlit movie that I got offered from the wonderful Bob Shay, a New Line Pictures, New Line Cinema, was Critters

too, which had all of those things but a tiny little budget.

Anyway, to celebrate with me

are the Kyoto brothers who created the critters,

that's Edward and Charles and Stephen Kyoto.

But to me it's Charlie and Ed and Steve.

And the estimable talents of Ms. Lin Shea,

worldwide superstar.

Oh, come on, Nick.

Horror Queen Mother. So this was my first feature film.

You guys had been on Critters II before.

Lynn, tell me how things kind of evolved

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