You are now listening to Post-Mortem with Mick Garris 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.

From Nice Guy Productions World Headquarters overlooking the glamorous San Fernando Valley, I'm Mick Garris and this is Post-Mortem.

A lot of filmmakers in our beloved dark genre became directors because of their passion for all things horror.

Nightmare Worlds ignite their creative juices and telling tales of terror becomes their reason for being.

They make horror films to share their fears with an eager audience held in thrall with their ability to spin frightening spider webs.

You can tell by watching a film that is made by someone passionate for the genre and you can tell when it's made by someone who sees it as a stepping stone to go to what they perceive as higher ground.

You can sense cinematic cynicism from the first scene of a movie made for money and not for love.

It can be limiting filmmakers who achieve success in the horror genre find themselves confined there because the studios and producers whose job it is to put movies on screens can't see beyond the immediate.

I've said before that someone who can make a great horror film is probably capable of making a great film in any genre.

First of all comes the story and the characters. The horror is icing on the poison cake but opportunities for filmmakers of the dark arts are limited.

It is a kind of horror jail where they are denied opportunities to tell stories that aren't about blood and fear and monsters.

I'm not complaining that my filmmaking career has been mostly limited to the genre.

It's a field I've loved for as long as I've been watching movies and reading books and it's my first choice when I'm looking for entertainment.

I'd love the opportunity to do a personal drama, a satirical comedy and emotionally wrenching doomed love story but it's not likely that the powers of B will be able to see beyond the king adaptations and masters of horror.

But the good news is that the horror stories I'm drawn to are about all those things too.

The shining is about a splintered family torn by ghosts and alcoholism.

Writing the bullet is also about a fractured family and ghosts but of a very different nature dealing with the Sophie's choice of death and who will be next in the grave.

My favorite horror films feel personal connect dramatically movies like rose glasses, saint mod, remy weaknesses his house, Keith Thomas is the visual and Rob Savage's host exist in the real world, a lived in world and provide more in grossing drama and character complexity than any studio drama ever could.

I love a rip-roaring, pleasant thunder picture show as much as anyone but horror set in a world that I live in with characters I understand and identify with resonate with me long after the end credits have rolled.

Our guest this time is a sort of jack of all trades. He's worked as a writer, director and producer in features and television and cannot be pigeonholed by genre though his most well known works are horror.

Gary Sherman's first feature was raw meat and that title alone will give you a glimpse of his passion for the genre. Let's put him on the slab and see what makes him tin.

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