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Wherein myself and Brian Salisbury of Film School Rejects / Hollywood.com / HorrorSquad.com debate the relative merits of Neil Marshall’s debut feature, Dog Soldiers.

Wherein myself and Peter S. Hall of the fantastic blog Horror’s Not Dead duke it out over the relative merits of Neil Marshall’s sophomore film The Descent.

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B-D by way of Frightfest.co.uk has a low-res copy of the Descent 2 poster, seen above. It’s small but I suppose it gives you an idea. One of the things I loved about the The Descent was the creature design, while the sequel, based on the poster above and screenshots, makes the creatures look a [...]

poster-doomsday

Director: Neil Marshall
Year: 2008
Country: UK
This is a list of films that had, in some way, an influence on Neil Marshall when writing and directing his 2008 homage to post-apocalyptic science fiction films, Doomsday. Whether or not he was aware of it is anyone’s guess:
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Land of the Dead
Judge Dredd
Waterworld
Alien vs Predator
Gladiator
Resident Evil
Dog [...]

I have not seen the first three films by Alexandre Aja, though I suspect most have not. His magnum opus might be considered Haute Tension had the script not degraded into a cheap M. Night Shayamalan rip-off, rendering the first half of the movie completely implausible and utterly stupid. Though this made the film absolutely [...]