You are now listening to Postmortem 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.

I'm Mick Garris and this is Postmortem.

You have no idea how good it feels to say that again.

The show has been silenced for months by our winding road to a new home, and now, here we are, back together with old and new friends alike.

This is the most chaotic year of my life, that's for sure, and I'm guessing that most of us can say the same thing.

The pandemic has incapacitated us in so many ways, and we are strangling on the social and political divides.

In a time when we all need to be on the same side, we are turning to guns about whether or not to wear a mask to protect not only ourselves, but each other.

It's a time when we are not able to gather in cinemas to watch movies together, where we are on our own.

I've watched the world of film and television implode, publishing, putting on the skids, and even this very podcast was thrust into the middle of the controversy of Fangoria and its own internal issues.

All of the podcasts on the Fangoria Network acted in unison to leave what we felt was a place where we could not, in good conscience, continue to work.

My new book was published by them, and now the publisher has fallen to pieces.

But Fangoria is back now under new ownership, but our show, like several under the Fangoria Podcast Network, has found a new and welcoming home.

It's time to come together, and we can start within the genre.

We can't go to the movies together, but we can share experiences with one another on social media, have watch parties via Netflix, recommend books on good reads, share lists of favorite TV and movies.

We watch our movies online now, and it's tough to find the gems among the thumbnail art provided us, so let's make and share our favorites.

There are no multi-million dollar ad campaigns to draw us to the cinema, so we are on our own, but we are on our own collectively.

Sharing is caring, right?

This isn't the stand where 99% of the world's population died off. That was fiction.

This is more sinister, and yet more controllable. We can social distance, wear a mask, just be smart. It's worked overseas, and it can work here.

So let me know about the best horror films and books and TV for quarantine viewing, and I promise to do the same.

Our guess to help us relaunch post-mortem is a master of many media in the horror world.

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