Tag: Neil Marshall
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ANALYSIS: How DOG SOLDIERS Made Me Care About These White Men
To celebrate the 4K reissue of Dog Soldiers (2002) by Second Sight Films – and the film’s 20th Anniversary screening at FrightFest – Mae Murray offers a personal reflection on Neil Marshall’s squaddies-vs-claws horror classic… Full disclosure: I’d never seen Dog Soldiers until recently. But with the release of Janine Pipe’s making-of book “Sausages” I…
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TOP 10: British Horrors of the 00s
“I think we saw a lot more films where the victims were neither innocent nor particularly likable. It felt like the genre was saying – the party’s over, time to pay the price.” Sarah Dobbs, Chillenial Horrors Podcast To coincide with our pod episode discussing J-Horror we’re also looking at the national horror traditions of…
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31 DAYS OF HORROR #2: Louise Blain on THE DESCENT (2005)
Spoilers Louise Blain – presenter of Sound of Gaming on BBC Radio 3 – looks back on the claustrophobic horror classic that still… rocks. Neil Marshall’s The Descent doesn’t teeter on the top of my mental pile of the best horror movies. It doesn’t wobble, occasionally displaced by a newer 21st century upstart. No, like…
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REVIEW: The Reckoning (2020)
dir. Neil Marshall. It’s 1665: the Year of the Great Plague. After losing her husband to the pestilence single-mother Grace (Charlotte Kirk) rebuffs the lecherous advances of her landlord, finding herself accused of the dark arts and falling into the hands of Sean Pertwee’s sadistic witchfinder – a man who also burnt her mother at…