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. Welcome to the premiere episode of the post-mortem

podcast where we'll have conversations with eminent filmmakers, writers, musicians,

and other artists specializing in the horror genre.

Horrors my life, for better or for worse.

The first movie I remember seeing on television was Son of Kong.

When I was a kid before streaming, before DVRs, hell even before VCRs, I would pour through the TV

guide and circle all the genre films I could find.

Back then, most of them were identified as melodramas, certainly not as horror. And I'd set the alarm for those pre-dawn hours

when they'd show those disreputable things and try not to fall asleep through the four skulls of

Jonathan Drake or something like that.

When I was 12, I began writing short stories, mostly scary ones, and that same year I got a movie camera

for graduating junior high school, and I said about making horror movies.

I guess it's in my blood.

I've always felt that horror is to cinema, what rock and roll is to music,

rude, disruptive, antagonistic, something you embrace when you're young

that your parents could never love. But it got deeper for me. I found out that

horror had depth and intelligence and humanity and more of it than in the more mainstream

movies I've been exposed to. I'm here to say that horror is good for you. It's a way to play

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