Mick Garris

Mick Garris
Mick Garris during the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike
Born	December 4, 1951 Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Occupation	Director, producer, writer

Mick Garris (born December 4, 1951) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California.^[1]

Life and career

Garris was born in Santa Monica, California. He is known for his adaptations of Stephen King stories, such as directing the horror film Sleepwalkers starring Mädchen Amick^[2] and is the creator of the Showtime series Masters of Horror^[3] and the NBC series Fear Itself. Garris won a 1986 Edgar Award for an episode he wrote for the Steven Spielberg-produced television series Amazing Stories. Garris directed the FEARnet web series Post Mortem.^[4] He hosted the double feature re-release of The People Under the Stairs and The Serpent and The Rainbow on 20 February 2010 in the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.^[5] He contributes to the web series Trailers From Hell. Garris was also the co-screenwriter and executive producer of Hocus Pocus.^[6] Garris most recently directed the miniseries adaption of Stephen King's novel Bag of Bones^[7] and the documentary film Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney Jr., about the life and work of Legend actor Lon Chaney Jr.,^[8] which screened on the Horror-Rama 2015 in October 2015.^[9] He has a role, as Himself in the Biography Horror film Digging Up the Marrow, from Indie Director Adam Green.^[10]

As of 2015, he is also a member of the board of advisers for the Hollywood Horror Museum.

Awards

• Garris received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2006 New York City Horror Film Festival. He received the award in person after a screening of his Masters of Horror episode "Valerie on the Stairs".

Selected filmography

• Fuzzbucket (1986)
• Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)
• Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
• Sleepwalkers (1992)
• The Stand (1994)
• The Shining (1997)
• Quicksilver Highway (1997)
• Riding the Bullet (2004)
• Masters of Horror - "Chocolate" (2005)
• Masters of Horror - "Valerie on the Stairs" (2006)
• Desperation (2006)
• Bag of Bones (2011)

As writer

• *batteries not included (1987)
• Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)
• The Fly II (1989)
• Hocus Pocus (1993)
• Riding the Bullet (2004)
• Masters of Horror - "Haeckel's Tale" (2005)
• Masters of Horror - "Chocolate" (2005)

See also

• Fear Itself

References

1. New York Times
2. New York Times
3. Promo for Mick Garris' Post Mortem
4. Mick Garris Talks Post Mortem, Happy Town, and More
5. Event Report: Wes Craven Double Feature at The Aero / Talks My Soul to Take and Scream 4
6. New York Times
7. Exclusive: Mick Garris Talks Adapting Stephen King's Bag of Bones for Television
8. Q&A: Horror Maestro Mick Garris Revisits “PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING”
9. HORROR-RAMA 2015 Welcomes Rochon & The Soska Twins to Toronto!
10. Digging Up the Marrow

External links

• Mick Garris at the Internet Movie Database
• Mick Garris at AllMovie
• Mick Garris on FEARnet
• NYC Horrorfest