You are now listening to Postmortem with Mick Garris, on the Dread Podcast Network,

where the most influential voices in horror cinema will spill their guts 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 Postmortem.

There are those who think there's a big fat line between fans and creators of popular

culture, and let me put an end to that tussle right now.

The fans are the creators and vice versa.

The people who make the movies and TV shows, who write the books, who draw the comics,

who make the music that we all consume, are fans from beginning to end.

In his youth, Joe Dante wrote letters to famous monsters of film, and columns for Castle

Frankenstein.

Quentin Tarantino worked for years in a video store, absorbing a centuries worth of film

school and getting paid minimum wage for it.

Sam Zimmerman edited Fangoria, and now as a programmer at Shutter.

Ryan Turek was known as Ryan Rotten when he wrote for ShockTillYouDrop.com, before becoming

a hot shot executive at Blum House.

I started consuming movies and TV at an early age.

In junior high school, I wrote a fanzine called Coffin Capers that was mimeographed on school

equipment and given away.

I made eight millimeter movies like the Return of the Count and the Mad Magician when I was

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