BD Horror News - Neil Marshall Brings Horror to the Old West!

As Rogue Pictures prepares to release Neil Marshall's Doomsday (clips) on Friday, the Focus Features genre arm has made a deal for the writer-director's follow-up, Sacrilege, a horror film to be set in the Old West - an untapped environment loaded with possibilities. Read on for the rest of the news and cross your fingers that Rogue gets Todd Lincoln's HACK/SLASH off the ground sometime soon (come on guys!)

Marshall pitched the project to Rogue topper Andrew Rona, and he will write and direct it.

"It is set during the Gold Rush, a time remembered for incidents like the Donner Party," Marshall said. "It is meant to be a pitch-black, gritty, period horror movie."

Marshall, who wrote and directed "Dog Soldiers" and "The Descent" as well as "Doomsday," grew up in England watching oaters and horror films in equal measure and dreamed of combining the genres. Marshall declined to disclose much detail on "Sacrilege," but the picture will draw on themes of isolation and paranoia and such influences as John Carpenter's "The Thing."

"This is 'Unforgiven' by way of H.P. Lovecraft, with that grim, gritty setting and a horror element nobody has seen before," Marshall said.

He added that he'd begin writing immediately.

"I've always got a few irons in the fire, but this has long been an ambition of mine," Marshall said.

Source: Variety

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Kaname Tousen
1:02am, March 11, 2008

Something that might actually be good

Kaname Tousen
1:02am, March 11, 2008

like his first two movies

D_KILLER
5:53am, March 11, 2008

Out of the unofficial 'Splat Pack', Neil Marshall has got to be be my favorite of these new generation of horror film-makers. 'Dog Soldiers' is a fucking cracking debut, and 'The Decent' is one of the finest British Horror films of recent times. This idea sounds fresh and inovative. But there have been two horror/western films before (of sorts); anybody see 'Death Vally: The Revenge Of Bloody Bill'? Oh Dear! That's a bad example, but a great one is the brilliant Clint Eastwood western 'High Plains Drifter'. Not strictly a horror film I know, but there are supernatural elements and it's vey dark with a haunting climax!

D_KILLER
6:12am, March 11, 2008

Oh yeah, 'Death Valley: The Revenge Of Bloody Bill' is set in the present. Marshall's film is going to be a period piece set in the OLD west! Got to say I'm very intigued by this idea; two of my favorite genres in one. Can't wait!

SplitBreast
8:34am, March 11, 2008

Wow. I hope this happens. Like D_Killer said, two of my favorite genres together.

Droogie13
3:07pm, March 11, 2008

The blending of these genres has been long overdue, and Marshall is an auteur perfectly suited for this. Looking forward to it.

darkdescent
3:49pm, March 11, 2008

Now this is more like it. I'm looking forward to this even more than Doomsday.

H.P. Pufncraft
5:54pm, March 12, 2008

"This is 'Unforgiven' by way of H.P. Lovecraft, with that grim, gritty setting and a horror element nobody has seen before," Sounds awesome!

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