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 and this is post-mortem. Take a hundred days of shooting, add 95 scripted locations,

four hundred sixty script pages, six states, a speaking roles a year away from home.

25 years ago, it all adds up to the Before making the stand my work had been on a very intimate scale with budgets that were less than opulent

But this was an enormous canvas to fill

eight hours spread over four nights in one week.

It was not my first project with Stephen King.

It followed Sleep Walkers, which was a very different kind of movie.

And a big part of my career has been devoted to bringing King's stories to the screen large and small.

The Stan miniseries remains to this day King's most popular novel ever, and the opportunity

to direct it from a script by the author himself

was an intimidating one. It would be incredibly easy to fuck it up. But nothing ventured, nothing

gained. We spent a huge part of our lives pushing that boat up the mountain and it turned out to be a huge rating success

Stephen King has a voice that is completely his own, but it's a voice that resonates across generations, genres, and tastes.

His is a dark imagination, but it's grounded in a deep and emotional humanity. His characters

are people we know. They are us. I've often said that King's stories are not

about the monsters in the closet, they are about the people who live in the house

with the monsters in the closet. It's a real world kind of horror which to me is the very best kind.

I've been lucky enough to work with King on several projects

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