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From the writer/director of cult classics comes a memoir that's equal parts revealing autobiography and indie film crash course.

Don Coscarelli turned genre film on its head with mind-blowing horror/sci-fi/fantasy mashups like Phantasm, The Beastmaster, Bubba Ho-Tep and John Dies at the End. Now he's inviting you on board for an entertaining and uncompromising look at how it all happened.

Bear witness to the creation of a wildly inventive horror thriller about inter-dimensional grave robbing that became a franchise phenomenon spanning four decades and counting.

You'll tag along as Coscarelli chaperones three out-of-control child stars on a tour of Japan, almost drowns Catherine Keener in her first film role, and turns a short story originally deemed unfilmable by its own author into a beloved cult classic. You'll also learn why he refuses to sit in a director's chair, why getting Hollywood legend Ossie Davis to wrestle a rubber mummy wasn't nearly as much fun as it sounds, and why shooting an intimate moment between a ferret and a tiger has become an important metaphor for Coscarelli's career.

And you'll learn how he managed to retain creative and financial control of his creations in an industry ruled by power-addicted predators, and all without going insane or bankrupt.

True Indie will prove indispensable for film fans, aspiring filmmakers, and anyone who loves an underdog success story.