Discovery ChannelMorgan Spurlock was nine years old when he knew he wanted to be a filmmaker. But it was an unlikely movie that got him hooked. "My parents took me to see 'Scanners,' and when Michael Ironside made that guy's head explode, that was the moment I wanted to make movies — changed my life forever," an excited Spurlock recently told Business Insider, sitting in a conference room in New York City. While perhaps not the first choice for most parents as a family outing to the movie theater, the experience nourished Spurlock's love of horror movies, which has been dormant most of his career as he skyrocketed to fame as a documentary filmmaker with his debut movie, 2004's "Super Size Me." But now as a more established name (with numerous nonfiction features and TV shows under his belt), Spurlock can call his own shots with his production company, Warrior Poets.