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 this is post-mortem. As I'm recording this, I've just wrapped up a year-long

journey to film festivals around the world with our movie Nightmare Cinema. I've gone from Argentina to the Netherlands to Mexico to

Brazil to Canada to France to Ireland to Spain to Denmark and all over the United States.

In the world of independent film, in particular independent horror, it's getting more and more difficult to get your film in front of an audience.

The ability of getting any independent movies into theaters has become

increasingly rare. The local Cineplex is playing hosts a huge theme-park ride

event attractions that cost hundreds of millions of dollars

so there's not much room for the little guys and the independent art house screens

are disappearing. Film festivals have not only become more and more independent in getting your film attention,

but also for most of the films that play them, the only places they can be seen on the big screen.

The Devotion horror fans have to their

hour genre is deep and passionate and they support these cinema orgies in ways that no other genres do. If not for the festivals, movies like The Witch,

Hereditary, Autopsy of Jane Doe, Revenge, The Perfection, and so many others might never

have found a home on theatrical screens.

We were very fortunate to get a theatrical release,

though it is a limited one, simultaneous with VOD.

One stop on the Global Nightmare Cinematura with VOD. O.D.

One stop on the Global Nightmare Cinema Tour was a great celebratory festival in beautiful

Lucca Italy.

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