Mick Garris

Mick Garris is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist born in Santa Monica, California. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, as well as making Stephen King adaptations.

Early life

Garris was born in Santa Monica, California and raised in Van Nuys.

Career

He is known for his work in the horror genre. He has worked with Stephen King several times, such as directing the horror film Sleepwalkers, written by King and starring Mädchen Amick and is the creator of the Showtime series Masters of Horror 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. He contributes to the web series Trailers From Hell. Garris was also the co-screenwriter and executive producer of Hocus Pocus. Garris directed the 2011 miniseries adaption of Stephen King's novel Bag of Bones 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., which screened on the Horror-Rama 2015 in October 2015. He has a role, as Himself in the biography horror film Digging Up the Marrow, from indie director Adam Green.
As of 2015, he is also a member of the board of advisers for the Hollywood Horror Museum.
On January 16, 2018, it was announced that Mick Garris's horror podcast Post Mortem would be joining Blumhouse's podcast network.

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".
Filmography

Film

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	The Howling	Man with TV Guide
1983	Michael Jackson's Thriller	Zombie	Musical short
1988	Critters 2: The Main Course	Critters
1995	The Quick and the Dead	Young Herod's Man
1996	The Stupids	Reporter #2
2004	Riding the Bullet	Dr. Higgins
2005	Gotham Cafe	Father Callahan	Short
2007	Brutal Massacre: A Comedy	Himself
2010	The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry	Host	Documentary
2014	Digging Up the Marrow	Himself
2015	Tales of Halloween	The Phantom	Segment "Grim Grinning Ghost"
2016	The Rift: Dark Side of the Moon	Martin
2020	Sky Sharks	Dr. Gage Creed

Television

TV movies

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer
1982	Take One: Fear on Film
1984	Cheeseball Presents
1990	Psycho IV: The Beginning
1997	Quicksilver Highway
1998	Virtual Obsession
2002	Lost in Oz
2006	Desperation

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979–1981	Fantasy Film Festival	Host	Talk show
1982	Take One: Fear on Film	Host	Television film
1994	The Stand	Henry Dunbarton	Episode: "The Plague"
1997	Quicksilver Highway	Surgeon in Hospital Hallway	Television film
1997	The Shining	AA Hartwell	Episode #1.2
2010–2016	Post Mortem with Mick Garris	Host	11 episodes
2018–2020	Eli Roth's History of Horror	Self	9 episodes
2021	The Stand	Boulder Partygoer	Cameo

Documentary works

Direct-to-video

Year	Title	Writer	Producer
1982	Coming Soon

TV documentary films

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer
1980	Fear on Film: Inside "The Fog"
1982	The Making of a Chilling Tale
1982	The Making of "The Thing"

TV shorts

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer
1981	Making a Monster Movie: Inside "The Howling"
1983	The Making of "Videodrome"
1985	The Making of "The Goonies"

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