The writer, director, and podcaster has spent much of his career tingling spines.
“Isnt that amazing?”
Garris marvels to EW.
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“Twenty-seven years after it flopped at the box office, its No.
Its pretty cool.”
“It’s about an American teacher, teaching in a snowbound art school,” he says.
The results are ghostly and less than happy.
Hi-jinks ensue, as they say!"
Below, Garris talks about his life in horror.
CRITTERS 2 (1988)
Garris’s directorial debut was this underfunded monsters-featuring sequel to the 1986’sCritters.
MICK GARRIS:It was my first feature film.
Id only ever directed an episode ofAmazing Storiesbefore that.
Kids.Everythingthats difficult about making a movie is inCritters 2.
So, no money, everything difficult.
It was incredibly difficult but incredibly fun.
Something completely other than what we planned.
MG:That was my first experience working with a true movie star.
He wanted to directPsycho IVand the studio wouldnt let him.
He went on and on and on about how it was the best sequel and how surprised he was.
MG:Before I ever met Steve, I had this studio meeting at Columbia onSleepwalkers.
He had director approval.
He sawPsycho IVand really liked it.
I knew his stuff really well.
That led him to asking me to doThe Stand, which was an amazing thing.
Thats where we really became friends.
None of them had had that for a long time.
It was like giving the keys of the asylum to the inmates, but it worked out really well.
That was a little too ambitious.
People were afraid of globe-hopping.Nightmare Cinemaeventually evolved into a feature film with five stories and very international.
Two Americans, but a Japanese director, a Cuban director, and a British director.
We are in talks with Shudder about aNightmare Cinema 2.
The coronavirus basically shut that down and were just starting to have conversations again.
Its a great interview with Joe.
Then weve got Patton Oswalt and Jonah Ray fromMST3K.
I have another interview with Mike Flanagan and weve got a bunch more planned that we havent recorded yet.
But I am so glad to be able to uncork these wines for everybody.
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