Don't touch that dial.

You're tuned in to the Dread Podcast Network.

You are now listening to Postmortem with Mick Garrus,

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 Garrus.

From Nice Guy Productions World Headquarters,

overlooking the glamorous San Fernando Valley,

I'm Mick Garrus, and this is Postmortem.

The genre of the fantastic science fiction horror and fantasy

have long been one of the best outlets for metaphor.

Because the rules of reality in genre films are as flexible

as a pocket watch painted by Salvador Dali,

lots of social commentary has been cloaked by creative storytelling.

You are able to fill in your own thoughts about racism

in George Romero's Night of the Living Dead,

the Vietnam War and Toby Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,

Communism in the Cold War, and paranoia in both Don Siegel's

and Phil Kaufman's versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

But sometimes a film will step out from behind the screen of metaphor

and blatantly put forward its social and political issues

for all the world to see.

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