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, McGarras.

If a tree falls, but there's no one in the forest to hear it, does it make a sound?

If a great film is made but no one is able to see it, does it exist?

I'm Mick Garris and this is the post-mortem podcast painters musicians singers or filmmakers

artists can't work in a vacuum your work means nothing if it doesn't reach an

audience today's audiences are increasingly fractured, splintered, divided and conquered.

Movies either get giant releases on thousands of screens at a time,

or they are ordered online like a pizza.

The millions of dollars it takes to promote a Hollywood film

requires the edges to be sanded off to appeal to the widest audience possible.

But still, there are independence who can deliver smaller films with bigger ideas than the giant 3D theme park rides that fill the multiplexes today.

Film production and distribution are in a state of constant upheaval and evolution.

The formulas aren't always working, yet the unique vision can still break through all the

clutter and make a giant noise all on its own.

Robert Shay is the dictionary definition of independent.

He started New Line Cinema in his Greenwich Village apartment in

1967, renting titles like Reefer Madness to college campuses. New Ien started to acquire

distribution rights to various foreign art house films and eventually

wrapped up into producing as well as distributing movies having phenomenal success

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