I'm Mick Garris and this is post-mortem. One of the things I love about doing this show is the continuing education it provides to me.

I always learn something from every guest

we've ever talked with here. Often our conversations are with veterans who have been at it for decades,

people like John Carpenter, Roger Corman, John Landis, but every bit is interesting to me are the new voices.

Filmmakers who come out with a first film that is fresh and confident and already shows a distinctive cinematic voice such as Ariaster

with hereditary and Coralee Farsia with revenge.

But one side of the movie making coin we've not really delved into before today is the reality documentary side.

There are some really great docs about the making of films and often the most fascinating are those devoted to the movies that crashed and burned. Like Peter Medak's sublime, The Ghost of Peter Sellers, and Lost in Lamancia, a chronicle of the disastrous fate of Terry Gilliam's man of Lamancia.

On a much smaller scale, but every bit as fascinating, is Shirkers, all about the making of a Singaporean movie that never was completed.

The film was written and directed by its star, a teenager named Sandy Tan.

25 years later, Sandy went back to reconstruct its fate resulting in this very

special documentary about everything that went right and wrong in the process. It was snapped up by Netflix who gave it quite a push for awards

consideration as well as heavy festival play. It's a great look into the process of making a movie,

especially a first movie, as well as a peak into the social and

cultural realities of Singapore at the time.

We'll dig into this fascinating journey with Sandy Tan after this.

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.

So you did not, my mistake, you did not direct the original shirkers. No, I did not.

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