I'm Mick Garris and this is post-mortem. I love horror anthologies. I've read tons of books of genre short stories and my childhood was graced by the Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, and many others.

I began my filmmaking career as a writer and then director on Stephen Spielberg's amazing stories

and followed that with work on Freddie's nightmares and tales from the crypt.

But one of the best experiences of my professional life so far

was creating and running the Masters of Horror Series.

One of the most incredible things about Masters was that we were able to allow the greatest

filmmakers in the horror genre to put their darkest fears on the home screen with virtually no creative interference.

One of the best parts of my role as executive producer was acting as an onset cheerleader

for the directors, helping them to create something that was entirely their own.

We encouraged them all to put their own personal stamp on their films.

We didn't want the shows to be alike.

We wanted John Carpenter's episodes to look and act like John

Carpenter movies. Toby Hooper's to look and act like Toby Hooper movies.

Otherwise, what was the point? We got amazing people to make amazing movies

because they were actually able to do what they want.

After Masters was done, I wanted to do something similar to follow it up, but to make it much more international in scope.

On Masters, we were able to bring Dario Argento from Italy to do

the show and we actually shot one episode from each of the two seasons in Japan. I wanted to do a series where each film was shot in a different country

by a director from that country. Unfortunately, that was not to be. I tried to

create a series of internationally produced feature films under the same umbrella that would come out theatrically,

then have various home video and premium cable and digital outlets,

but I was told this was way too adventurous.

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