William Friedkin
Post Mortem with Mick Garris
Dread Central
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Horror lost another titan - the bold and talented William Friedkin passed away this month. Known historically for directing the "scariest movie ever made" THE EXORCIST (and many others), Friedkin pushed horror from the outskirts of cinema to the absolute forefront of the worldwide zeitgeist. His contributions to cinema were genre shattering and to honor him Post Mortem will be re-airing two of his conversations with Mick Garris: his the un-aired Z-Channel 1979 interview from the Fantasy Film Festival and an interview from the original television version of Post Mortem with Mick Garris. Rest in Peace, Bill!
POST MORTEM WITH MICK GARRIS
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| 0:00.0 | Don't touch that dial. |
| 0:03.0 | You're tuned in to the Dread Podcast Network. |
| 0:13.0 | You are now listening to Postmortem with Mick Garrus, |
| 0:17.0 | where the most influential voices in horror cinema |
| 0:20.0 | will spill their guts to the renowned horror director, writer, and producer. |
| 0:25.0 | Now here's your host, Mick Garrus. |
| 0:30.0 | From Night Sky Productions World Headquarters, |
| 0:32.0 | overlooking the glamorous San Fernando Valley, |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Mick Garrus, and this is a special edition of Postmortem. |
| 0:40.0 | We have lost another Titan, a bold iconoclastic filmmaker |
| 0:45.0 | who helped shape the modern horror film. |
| 0:48.0 | In 1974, the release of The Exorcist just blew up everything |
| 0:53.0 | we could expect from a horror film. |
| 0:55.0 | It had the gloss and respect of a full-blown Hollywood production, |
| 0:59.0 | a top-notch cast, a script written by the author of the book |
| 1:03.0 | it was based on William Peter Blattie, |
| 1:05.0 | and the director of the Academy Award |
| 1:07.0 | winning the French connection, William Friedkin. |
| 1:11.0 | This didn't look or act anything like what we expected |
| 1:14.0 | a terrifying supernatural movie to be. |
| 1:17.0 | It was dramatic, intelligent, propulsive, deeply psychological, |
| 1:21.0 | in addition to being what at the time was called |
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