Well, here's something I haven't said in a while, but from Nice Guy Productions,

World Headquarters Overlooking the Glamorous San Fernando Valley, I'm Mick Garris,

and this is a special surprise edition of the Post-Mortem podcast.

Well, recently, I and Joe Dante and Don Coscarelli and Ernest Dickerson were invited guests at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas,

for their 20th anniversary celebration and the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Masters of Horror.

So we did a panel discussion. We recorded it there and we're presenting it to you here

as a special surprise post-mortem podcast. I hope you enjoy it and I hope we spring some more

surprises on you along the way. Have fun.

Thank you everyone. I can't believe that both Fantastic Fest and Masters of Horror are sharing a 20th anniversary.

How old does that make everybody feel?

Certainly me.

So I've told the story of the genesis of this show numerous times, but I guess I should once again.

It started out with a series of dinners that we held. numerous times, but I guess I should once again.

It started out with a series of dinners that we held.

A lot of the filmmakers within the genre knew each other from either DGA meetings or

conventions or film festivals or just coming across one another through mutual friends and the like.

So we had these dinners that started out.

There were 12 people there.

It was Wes Craven and Toby Hooper and John Carpenter and Joe Dante.

John Landon, you were at the first one, weren't you?

Yes, I was.

Yeah, and Don was at the first one as well.

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