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THE MARS GENERATION Trailer Sets Up the Ultimate Humanist Adventure

A manned mission to Mars is about so much more than boot prints on Martian soil. Traveling approximately 140 million miles through the frigid vacuum of space, propelled by rockets and solar sails, toward a new planet (that has flowing water!) on an adventure to explore what has yet to be explored, is the raison d’être of humanity. It’s the ultimate humanist adventure. And The Mars Generation, a new documentary by director Michael Barnett, highlights the fact that to go on this adventure, we’ll need to make sure our youth are—figuratively and literally—onboard.

The above trailer for The Mars Generation was just released, and sets up a documentary that shows off “aspiring teenage astronauts” on their way to becoming (hopefully) future astrophysicists and astronauts. But the theme of the trailer, and presumably the documentary, is apparently about a fundamental human need to explore just as much as it is about pursuing science and space exploration. “We don’t really go to space anymore,” one young woman says in the trailer, “people are losing touch with their human spirit.”

Despite the dour circumstances of the clarion call for manned exploration of Mars, there’s obviously already a strong field of people looking to make humanity a multi-planetary species. The documentary includes scientific educators like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye, as well as Elon Musk, who has led SpaceX to the successful establishment of reusable rockets—reusability is crucial for increasing spaceflight—as well as a pretty impressive plan for how to get to the Red Planet. Seriously watch the SpaceX clip below and try not to be inspired.

The good news is, the youth, which should learn to “live and love and [do science] together,” is starting to change. Indeed, their excitement is palpable. As one young man notes, “Having a man or woman walk on Mars is just the most badass thought in my mind.”

The Mars Generation touches down on Netflix on May 5.

What do you think about this documentary on the youth and the great Martian adventure? Did you go to space camp or just have the shirt?! Let us know below!

Images: Netflix

The BATGIRL Stories That Could Inspire Joss Whedon’s Movie

Many of us have been hoping for an appearance from Batgirl in some form in the DCEU, but I don’t think any of us were expecting for her to get her own movie, and especially not one from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Serenity creator, and Avengers director Joss Whedon. But that’s exactly what happened, as Whedon was just announced as potential writer/director for the world’s first big screen Batgirl adventure for Warner Brothers.

The character of Batgirl just celebrated 50 years since her debut in Detective Comics, and although she was technically created by DC Comics for the ’60s Batman TV show, she has had a lifespan far surpassing that, becoming one of comics’ most iconic and complex heroes.

Although the news suggests that they are drawing from writer Gail Simone’s run of New 52 comics, there are a ton of great Batgirl stories to choose from when looking for inspiration for a live-action adaptation. Here are but of few of the stories that should serve to inspire Whedon when crafting his big screen Barbara Gordon saga.

Batgirl: Year One #1-9 (2003)

Back in 2003, writers Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty wrote this nine-book maxi-series, which was to give Barbara Gordon the definitive take on the origin of Batgirl for the modern comics era. The art for this series came from then-newbie artist Marcos Martin, and everything has a crisp, retro (but not too retro) look. Both Dixon and Beatty proved they had a great take on Barbara’s characterization with this mini-series.

In this series, Barbara is a fresh out of college teenager (having graduated high school early, because she’s a genius ya know), and wants to follow in her father Jim Gordon’s footsteps in law enforcement. She applies to the FBI Academy and the Gotham Police Department, and is rejected for being too short, too young, and (although it’s never explicitly said) for being female. So she goes her own route and becomes a vigilante, inspired not by Batman, but by super heroine Black Canary! (The Batgirl name is meant more as a practical joke on her father, Batman’s best bud).

There’s a lot of reasons this would be a great inspiration for Whedon; for starters, it’s always best to start at the beginning. Plus the notion of a heroine not being taken seriously because of her gender/age? I’d say the creator of Buffy has some experience with that. Plus if anyone can make silly villains like Killer Moth and Firefly work, it’s Whedon.

“The Cat and the Bat” (Batman Confidential #17-21 2008)

During the time that Barbara Gordon was crippled and confined to a wheelchair as Oracle, there weren’t a lot of Batgirl stories being written about her, with DC focusing on the various legacy Batgirls like Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown. But there was one delightful Batgirl story about Barbara Gordon that was made during this period, and it happened not in her own title, but in the pages of the Bat-family anthology, Batman: Confidential.

This humorous storyline was brought to us by the creative team of writer Fabian Nicieza and artist Kevin Maguire, and it features Batgirl’s very first meeting with Catwoman, when Selina Kyle steals a notebook from Commissioner Gordon and his daughter will go to any lengths to retrieve it. The story is filled with jokes, and has a lot of potentially cinematic action. The inclusion of lots of funny moments puts this squarely in Whedon’s wheelhouse. Plus, it would serve as a proper introduction to Catwoman for the DCEU (assuming this gets made before Gotham City Sirens, that is).

“Wanted” (Batgirl, Vol. 4, #19-25, 2013)

In this story from the aforementioned writer Gail Simone, Commissioner Gordon blames Batgirl for his son’s James Junior’s untimely death, and he goes after her with everything that he’s got, never once realizing he’s going after his own daughter. It’s a pretty dark subject matter to take on for the first ever Batgirl movie, but there is still a lot of the Gordon family dynamic, which could prove fertile ground for a potential movie. Adding to all the drama is Barbara’s own guilt at her belief that she caused her brother’s death.

Gail Simone has become the definitive Barbara Gordon writer for years while writing the team book Birds of Prey for DC Comics, but during all that time, Babs was only ever Oracle, and not her costumed persona. The New 52 allowed Simone to writer Barbara as a fully fledged superhero, and she proved that her Batgirl was just as amazing and complex as her Oracle. This storyline is maybe the best from Simone’s run with the character, and even if it isn’t directly adapted by Whedon, he should cherry pick some of the most compelling aspects of Simone’s characterization.

“Batgirl of Burnside” (Collects Batgirl #35-40,  2014)

This is one of the most recent iterations of the character, following up Gail Simone’s run, but still within the confines of the New 52 continuity. In this run of stories, written by Brenden Fletcher and Cameron Stewart, with art by Babs Tarr, Barbara Gordon tries to start over with her life by moving to the Gotham-adjacent town of Burnside, home of hipsters and young people just starting out on their own.

But before too long, Batgirl once again finds herself fighting villains like an online gossip monger with a cybernetic implant, twin assassins with an anime bent, and even a showboating “evil” Batgirl impostor in a glittery outfit, who may or may not be a man. These stories are certainly lighter in tone than anything Babs had to deal with in years.

All of these stories portray Batgirl as a youthful, dynamic character, and the art from Babs Tarr is fun and cartoony, but in a totally great way. Her costume redesign for the character draws from not only the original Batman ’66 television series, but updates it all in a modern way while still looking like Batgirl. Much like the Batman Confidential arc, there is a lot of humor to play with here, and we all know that humor mixed with action and drama is Joss Whedon’s specialty.

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Which Batgirl stories would you love to see inspire Joss Whedon’s movie version? Let us know down below in the comments.

Images: DC Comics / Warner Brothers

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People are Painting Over POKÉMON Cards and They Look Amazing

We don’t have any stats to back this up, but it seems safe to say that the majority of people who have ever bought Pokémon Trading Card Game cards had very few Pokémon card battles, if any, and were more about collecting. Aside from being functional in a dueling environment, they’re also just gorgeous to look at, as the art is typically a vibrant look at our favorite Pokémon in their natural habitats. The art only occupies about a third or so of a card’s front face, though, so we usually only get a small glimpse of it. Now, fans with an artistic side have started to extend these illustrations beyond their borders, and the results are beautiful (via Twitter).

One of the most prolific of these artists is known as Lunumbra, the guy behind the Light Wigglytuff card above. The added environmental context really helps put the Pokémon into a world of their own, and gives a greater appreciation of the fact that the original illustrations truly are art. According to Kotaku, Lunumbra uses acrylic paint on the cards, then adds details with gel pens or metallic ink. Then the cards are painted with two coats of a protective gloss. He also posts time-lapse videos of his work on some cards, so check out one of those below:

Lunumbra’s Facebook page and YouTube channel are filled with more examples, so definitely browse those. He’s tackled a good amount of cards already, but which cards would you like to see given this treatment next? Let us know what you’re thinking!

Featured Image: Lunumbra/Facebook

SpaceX Successfully Lands World’s First Reused Orbital Class Rocket

Today at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, SpaceX, the private aerospace company led by CEO Elon Musk, successfully executed its mission to deliver SES-10, a communications satellite, into geostationary transfer orbit, as well as re-land — for the first time ever — one of its Falcon 9 orbital class rockets on the drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You. Although the company has previously landed Falcon 9 rocket first stages (first stages being the most costly portion of the rocket responsible for initial thrust) on both land and drone ship, this is the first time an orbital class refurbished first stage has ever been successfully reused and landed. It’s a feat that could bring down the cost of spaceflight by 30% and revolutionize the way we break gravity’s chains.

As SpaceX notes, the successful execution of the “SES-10 mission [marks] a historic milestone on the road to full and rapid reusability…” Musk and SpaceX have made it clear that the only way to make spaceflight more affordable, and hence more ubiquitous, is to lower the costs involved in sending rockets into orbit or beyond. This means that the rockets must be fully and rapidly reusable, like any other form of transportation we’re used to using. (Imagine how expensive a plane ticket would be if the plane could only be flown once.)

Tonight will be the first reuse of an orbital first stage. Let’s look at the launch profile of #falcon9 #SES10 pic.twitter.com/AEg0nUvVd9

— Cosmic Carol (@Cosmic_Carol) March 30, 2017

Although Jeff Bezos and his company, Blue Origin, have successfully reused their New Shepard rocket in the past, SpaceX’s reusing of the Falcon 9 is more significant because the New Shepard was a suborbital rocket, whereas the Falcon 9 is orbital class. As Musk has noted, the New Shepard went out into “space” whereas the Falcon 9 delivers payloads into “orbit,” which requires 100 times the energy.

Getting to space needs ~Mach 3, but GTO orbit requires ~Mach 30. The energy needed is the square, i.e. 9 units for space and 900 for orbit.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2015

It should also be noted that, as NASA Spaceflight points out, the Space Shuttle was technically an orbital-class rocket that achieved partial reusability as well. There is a difference however, as the Space Shuttle threw away all of its external tanks, and its recovered solid boosters could not be reused economically. By actually re-landing the first stage with thrust rather than simply having it open a parachute and fall into the ocean, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 also definitely has a claim to a more rapidly reusable system as well as infinitely more style points. Plus the Space Shuttle cost $450 million per launch. SpaceX gets payload to orbit for $62 million, and it’s clear that the cost is coming down!

What do you think about SpaceX successfully landing the “world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket”? Let us know your thoughts below!

Images: SpaceX

How Joss Whedon’s Batgirl Will Redefine the DCEU

It’s been almost two years since Joss Whedon left the Marvel Cinematic Universe following the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron. And it’s fitting that twenty years after Whedon’s groundbreaking run on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, he’s lined up a new film gig starring one of the most popular superheroines of all-time. That’s right, Barbara Gordon’s alter-ego Batgirl is joining the DC Extended Universe, and Whedon is attached as the writer and the director. Today’s Nerdist News is shining a Batsignal on the ways that Whedon’s new film could revitalize the DCEU. It’s time to get excited!

Join host, and Gotham City’s seventh best superheroine, Jessica Chobot, as she breaks down everything we know so far. According to the early reports, this Batgirl will probably take her cues from the New 52 incarnation of the character. And given Whedon’s very public disagreements with Marvel Studios over the creative direction of his Avengers films, we’re thinking that Warner Bros. is probably giving Whedon the creative freedom he needs to make this movie. And after Batman & Robin, Batgirl could really use some cinematic redemption!

It’s also getting a little crowded in the DCEU’s Gotham City, considering there’s a Harley Quinn-themed movie, a Nightwing solo pic, and The Batman in addition the newly announced Batgirl film. With Nightwing probably heading off to his own city and Ben Affleck‘s future as the Dark Knight still up in the air, perhaps Batgirl can step up and fill the void as the heroine that Gotham needs and deserves.

What do you think about Whedon’s potential Batgirl film? Let’s discuss in the comment section below!

AMC Reveals First Guests for TALKING WITH CHRIS HARDWICK

Since 2011, Nerdist founder Chris Hardwick has been hosting Talking Dead on AMC; which led to Talking Bad, Talking Saul, and now his very own weekly talk show, Talking with Chris Hardwick. The premiere episode of the new series is coming up in just a few weeks, and we’ve got the inside word on who will be joining Chris as the first guests on his new show.

AMC has let us know that Michelle Monaghan, Charlie Hunnam, Connie Britton, Justin Theroux, Bryan Cranston, and Elijah Wood will be among the initial lineup of guests for Talking with Chris Hardwick, but not necessarily in that order. Chris will also be joined by the entire cast of Silicon Valley, which should be a pretty interesting episode all by itself!

Now, that is a very performer-heavy lineup, but this show’s lineup won’t just be limited to just actors and actresses. Chris is also bringing in Lost co-creator and current executive producer of The Leftovers, Damon Lindelof, for a visit, as well as Neil deGrasse Tyson, a world famous astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and one of our favorite authorities on science. The first episode of Talking with Chris Hardwick is scheduled to premiere on Sunday, April 9 at 11pm.

Naturally, this show is far from the only place to enjoy Chris’ singular talents. He’s also hosting The Wall for NBC, @midnight for Comedy Central, and our very own Nerdist Podcast. Plus, Talking Dead will continue next October when The Walking Dead returns for its eighth season.

Are you looking forward to Chris’ new show? And which guests would you like to see on future episodes? Let us know in the comment section below!

Image: AMC

Who is Black Lightning? Breaking Down the CW’s Newest Superhero

The CW currently has no shortage of superhero dramas, but there may still be room for “justice like lightning.” A pilot episode for Black Lightning is currently in production and the potential series is in contention for a slot on The CW’s new schedule. If it goes forward, Black Lightning would be the fifth DC Universe show on the network. Whether that means Black Lightning would join the Arrowverse remains to be seen, but the first picture of Cress Williams in costume as Black Lightning certainly wouldn’t look out of place next to Supergirl, The Flash, or even the Green Arrow himself.

But who is Black Lightning? While the character doesn’t have a large profile among the general public, Black Lightning has the distinction of being DC’s first African-American superhero to headline his own comic book series. As envisioned by writer Tony Isabella, Black Lightning was nobody’s sidekick and he built his own heroic legacy. Unlike many superheroes, Black Lightning’s alter ego, Jefferson Pierce, was born with his abilities and he spent most of his early life hiding his metahuman gifts. But he didn’t hide his athleticism, and he won Olympic gold as a decathlete.

This may surprise you, but Black Lightning’s early adventures took place in the Southside of Metropolis, which was nicknamed Suicide Slum. This was a part of the city where criminals had full control and they had no fear of Superman or the other heroes. Pierce grew up in this neighborhood, and returned as an adult to serve as the principal of one of the local high schools. Like many heroes, Pierce initially resisted the call to become a superhero. But in the face of overwhelming crime and corruption, Pierce adopted the Black Lightning identity and took on the gang known as the 100. Somehow, we suspect that the name of the gang might be changed so that it doesn’t conflict with The 100 TV series, which is also on the CW.

In addition to the 100, Black Lightning does have his own rogues gallery of villains, including crime lord Tobias Whale, the shapeshifter known as Ishmael, and Cyclotronic Man, a thief whose powers were very similar to Black Lightning’s abilities. One of Black Lightning’s first foes was Merlyn, the frequent nemesis of Green Arrow. If the Black Lightning TV series joins the Arrowverse, it seems like a battle with Malcolm Merlyn would be an easy way to tie it into the other CW series.

Shortly after Isabella left the Black Lightning comic in 1978, the series was canceled and the character was largely left to guest appearances. In the mid-80s, Black Lightning resurfaced as a member of the Outsiders, Batman’s handpicked team of heroes. In 1995, Isabella returned for the second Black Lightning ongoing series, which caught up with the older and more experienced hero as he set up in Brick City. However, Black Lightning’s profile fell after that series, and he was used in supporting roles rather than as a leading character. He even served in the administration of President Lex Luthor while trying to change the system from within. In 2007, author Brad Meltzer added Black Lightning to the Justice League of America, many years after the hero had initially turned down the chance to join Earth’s most powerful heroes.

The Black Lightning TV series will also be featuring Jefferson Pierce’s daughters, Anissa and Jennifer. In the comics, both young women inherited similar powers of electricity from their father, with Anissa following in his footsteps on the Outsiders as Thunder. Jennifer Pierce later joined the Justice Society as Lightning. Both Thunder and Lightning even starred in their own series of animated shorts, as seen above. It seems likely that Anissa and Jennifer will follow a similar path on the live-action Black Lightning television show.

There’s a lot of potential in a Black Lightning TV series, and we’re hopeful that the CW will pick it up and create something unique and timely for one of the company’s groundbreaking superheroes. But we should find out for certain next month when The CW announces its schedule for next season.

Are you excited to see Black Lightning potentially becoming a larger star in the Arrowverse? Charge up your thoughts and share them in the comment section below!

Images: The CW/DC Comics

How about that Justice League trailer, though!

Puck Soup #44: Kevin Blackistone, ESPN

Kevin Blackistone of ESPN’s “Around The Horn” and the Washington Post joins us to talk about the early days of the Dallas Stars, Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals’ place in D.C. sports, race and hockey and why ESPN doesn’t talk NHL on its shouting shows. Meanwhile, Dave is recovering from Vegas, Greg has all of Edmonton mad at him, and the boys talk about the U.S. women’s hockey team getting paid, the playoff teams we’re rooting for, why you should never cross Gary Bettman, HBO “Real Sex” and porn roulette, the top seven celebrities to have attended WRESTLEMANIA that Lozo had no idea actually did, the latest in our March Mute-This bracket and reader mail. Sponsored by SEAT GEEK and ZIP RECRUITER.

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Snack On Brain Food During The IZOMBIE Season Premiere

It’s been an entire year since the big iZombie season finale, and I’ve been itching—like a zombie for brains—for new episodes. Now the premiere is on the horizon, so it’s time to kick up your feet and get to snacking. On brains, braaiiiins!

Like these ones:

I can’t be the only one who thinks walnuts look like brains. Little, tiny, munchable brains, but brains nonetheless, right? All it takes is a quick coating in pink chocolate and they’re instantly transformed into irresistible sweet and salty snack. And when you toss them together with tangy chips, more spiced nuts, and fiery candy, you have a blazing good mix to satisfy any salivating zombie.

Liv Moore would happily throw this together to curb her cravings at the morgue. Be careful, this spicy snack mix is addictive and sure to wake the undead. Bring on iZombie season 3!

iZombie Brain Food Snack Mix

You’ll need:

3 cups pretzels
2 cups Hot Cheetos
1 cup spiced cashews
1/2 cup Hot Tamales candy

Candied Brain ingredients:

1 cup walnut halves
1/2 cup pink candy melts

Place the candy melts in a heat-safe bowl and microwave at 15-20 second intervals until melted. Dip the walnuts into the melted chocolate and use a kitchen brush to brush off the excess, highlighting the ridges. Place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes or until set.

On a baking sheet toss the pretzels, Hot Cheetos, spiced cashews, Hot Tamales, and the candy brains.

Keep in an airtight container until ready to eat.

What sorta brainy snacks will you be serving at your iZombie premiere party? Let us know in the comments below!

Images: Jenn Fujikawa

GIF Credit: The CW

Schlock & Awe: A Chat with Horror Icon MICK GARRIS

We’re doing something a little different this week in Schlock & Awe, because this column is not just about celebrating movies, it’s about celebrating and championing the people who make them. I’m not ashamed to admit that quite a few of the movies I’ve featured in this column over the years were introduced to me through the site Trailers from Hell, which allows filmmakers to do mini-commentaries over their favorite classic genre movie trailers. One such TFH Guru is writer-director-producer Mick Garris, creator of Masters of Horror and host of the new podcast Post Mortem. Mr. Garris was kind enough to speak to me about horror ambassadorship, anthology series, and adapting Stephen King.

“Well you know, I really just love doing it,” Garris said to me when I asked how he liked being one of horror’s great ambassadors. “As you know, nobody wants to possess their genre more than the people in horror. And I feel that way too. It’s a passion. Let’s face it, most of us are or were outsiders at the time of our media consumption height in childhood and young adulthood and the like.” And no matter how many he watches, Garris says every new horror flick refreshes his love anew. “It’s not like I’m choosing to be the custodian or curator of horror or even an ambassador,” he said, “but just that I’m as passionate as ever and I’m still as inquisitive as ever, which is why I continue to do interviews and things like that. It’s fun, it’s not to make a living, believe me.”

Garris is part of a group of horror filmmakers that have supported each other’s work over the years, and many of those people have taken part in Trailers from Hell, started by Joe Dante (The Howling, Gremlins). It’s this kind of camaraderie that led to the creation of Garris’ late, beloved Showtime anthology series. “There are a series of dinners that I’ve been putting together and curating for many years that led to the creation of Masters of Horror. It was just a social thing where we’d get together around a table, the only requirement being that you’ve made horror movies that have been released.”

Because of this single stipulation for joining, the dinners are an ever-growing group, though one that’s taken a hiatus following a very sad occasion. “The last one was in honor of Wes Craven,” Garris shared. “There were 35 horror movie directors all in one place, but they ranged in age from nearly 80 to mid-20s, people who were making movies — and that’s been an important thing. A shark must swim or die. I think filmmakers in any community need to continue to evolve or die.”

For those unaware, Masters of Horror was a two-season series from 2005 to 2007 in which each episode was a standalone story directed by different horror directors, a true anthology. This was followed up by one season of the NBC series Fear Itself, which had the same format but was done for broadcast TV (so swearing, violence, and nudity were right out). Garris’ first writing gig was the 1980s series Amazing Stories, so clearly he has an affinity for the anthology format.

“Now, ‘anthology’ means the same cast for one season story arc on a series like American Horror Story and it’ll be a totally different story arc next season,” Garris said, “but for me, I was raised on The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits and Tales from the Crypt; I want a different story every time.” After seeing filmmakers come in and do mini-movies their own way on Amazing Stories and Tales from the Crypt, Garris created Masters of Horror as a way to give his friends and contemporaries a chance to do movies their own way. “I was able to say to these great filmmakers, ‘not much time, not much money, but you can do whatever the f**k you want.'”

Masters of Horror‘s freedom even enticed John Carpenter to come out of his self-imposed retirement. “He’d been treated like s**t by the studios,” Garris said. “Then he had so much fun on Masters of Horror that that’s why he went back and did The Ward and that turned out to not be his favorite experience either… But we got Tobe Hooper to do great stuff, John Landis, Joe Dante. We were able to bring people over like Dario Argento and go to Japan and do it with Takashi Miike and it was really an amazing kind of once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

Garris teased that his next film will be an anthology horror film, in the vein of the recently released XX, of which he was a huge fan. “I’m working on putting together an anthology movie that will be coming together very soon. It’s kind of secret right now but we are well into it and just making something I think, for genre fans of which I count myself one, will be very, very happy with and excited about.”

Mr. Garris has the distinction of directing eight different film, TV movie, and miniseries based on the work of Stephen King. And King is a notoriously hard writer to adapt properly. Garris has done it successfully several times — the 1994 miniseries The Stand and 1997’s The Shining — and he says the key to making a King adaptation is not focusing on the scares. “It’s drama first and the horror is layered on top of that,” Garris shared. “If you don’t treat it like a very real world with very real people then what’s the point? If it’s all about the boo moments, I mean, you can do that anywhere, but if you get good actors and good performances and believable storytelling as the books have, then you’ve got it. King works so well because he has a very unique voice and it’s set in a world we can all identify with and we all live in.”

On top of King, Garris has also adapted the work of Clive Barker — the Masters of Horror episode “Valerie on the Stairs” — and he shared how different their approaches are. “They both are amazing, fantastic people,” he began, “but they come at storytelling from opposite directions. Stephen King takes a very real world and takes a left turn to where the unreal fits very comfortably into that real world, whereas Clive creates a very unreal world but makes it real. It comes from entirely the opposite direction but still creates a genuine sense of terror and fear and humanity. So I think basically it’s all Shakespeare.”

I honestly could have talked to Mr. Garris all day, and if you feel similarly, you’re in luck! He has recently launched a bi-monthly podcast, Post Mortem with Mick Garris, in which he interviews horror luminaries. His first three episodes are currently available at time of writing (with interviews with Rob Zombie, a political discussion with Joe Dante and John Landis, and a talk with two of XX‘s directors, Jovanka Vuckovic and Karyn Kusama) and more are on the way. “I’m gonna be interviewing Walter Hill,” Garris said of future episodes, “and we also have things on tap with Stuart Gordon, Don Coscarelli, and Eli Roth.” (The Walter Hill episode was just released as of publication.)

Thanks, Mick Garris, for providing horror nerds like yours truly with even more to sink our teeth into.

Images: Trailers from Hell/Anchor Bay/Lakeside Productions/Ryuhei Kitamura/Joe Russo

Kyle Anderson is the Associate Editor for Nerdist. He writes the weekly look at weird or obscure films in Schlock & Awe. Follow him on Twitter!

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