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.

We've talked a lot in the past about how the worlds of

production and distribution are changing and how increasingly difficult it is getting

your independent film to an audience.

There are so many movies being made,

so many places to consume them,

that they are being buried.

One of the ways to find that audience

is on the International Film Festival Circuit.

The films that play there have been curated.

The festival directors schedule them because they think they have value.

You know that it has met a certain criterion of quality by its very presence on the

schedule. genre fans and press attend these festivals by the thousands and when a

movie connects with an audience there there's a good chance that it will find its way to you, the consumer, some way, somehow.

If a movie creates a buzz, that buzz spreads and there is no greater value added to a movie's chances

than good word of mouth even if it doesn't count on rotten tomatoes.

I've just gone through this on Nightmare Cinema, the most independent production I've ever been

involved with. I've worked on studio films, network television, series, mini-series, the whole

gamut, but I've never worked harder than I have with this film to reach the audience.

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