The Mortuary Collection Director Ryan Spindell Talks Horror Anthology
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The Mortuary Collection, his inspiration grew from the likes of the authors like
Stephen King, Richard Matheson, and
Ray Bradbury. Coincidentally, he also grew in Maine, the bulk of where King s stories take place. I spoke with the director about what fascinated him to short stories, which ones he decided for his latest film, and what made star
Clancy Brown such a perfect choice as mortician Montgomery Dark. I think [short form stories] s a form of storytelling that I feel is underrepresented in cinema, especially of a wide audience, Spindell said. I was surprised when I sort of started asking around about anthology movies and most people outside of the horror space didn t really know what that was. So I basically started with this sort of idea of like: Can I find a way to take these stories, which are self-contained stories that I really love, and put them into a structure that I can hopefully