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 McGarris, and this is post-mortem.

Back in the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood,

directors were for the most part craftsmen.

Though there were some who specialized in a particular genre, like Hitchcock with thrillers, John Ford with Westerns, and George Kucor with well women's pictures, most were jacks of all trades. A filmmaker could make a drama, a war movie, a horror film, and a comedy all in the same year. They wore many hats.

Then, as now, very few directors had their own signature style. It was the rare filmmaker whose vision was so remarkably

personal that you'd recognize it on the screen in minutes. From George Melier to Hitchcock to

Spielberg to Guillermo del Toro, we embrace the unique vision.

Walter Hill is one of those filmmakers.

His muscular, lean, gritty, and often violent storytelling

is iconic, original, and immediately identifiable.

And like the movie makers of the golden age,

his works have crossed many genre,

though he is probably best known for his Westerns and action

films.

A true o tour, he is the complete filmmaker, writer, director, and

producer. Walter Hill has truly done it all and has had the kind of career that any director

would want. Critical success, big box office, longevity, and a long and varied list of movies like no other.

He's best known for reintroducing the Western with films like his directorial debut, Hard Times, and later with Wild Bill and Geronimo and

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