Neil Marshall

Directing

Neil Marshall

Born

1970-05-25 (56)

Place of birth

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

52 titles

Neil Marshall (born 25 May 1970) is an English film director, editor, and screenwriter. Marshall began his career in editing and in 2002 directed his first feature film Dog Soldiers, which became a cult film. He followed up with the critically acclaimed horror film The Descent in 2005. Marshall also directed Doomsday in 2008, and wrote and directed Centurion in 2010.

Known for

Game of Thrones poster
8.5

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

Game of Thrones

2011

Hellboy poster
5.6

Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.

Hellboy

2019

The Descent poster
7.0

After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they search for a way out, the group discovers they are not alone—lurking in the darkness are savage, cave-dwelling creatures. With rising tension and dwindling trust, the women must fight to survive against both the predators and each other.

The Descent

2005

Dog Soldiers poster
6.7

A band of soldiers is dispatched to war games deep in the woods. When they stumble across a rival team slaughtered in camp, they realize they're not alone.

Dog Soldiers

2002

Doomsday poster
5.9

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Doomsday

2008

The Lair poster
5.6

Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.

The Lair

2022

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 5 titles

78/52 poster
7.1

The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.

78/52

2017

Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape poster
6.7

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.

Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

2010

Video Nasties: Draconian Days poster
7.4

The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 Video Recordings Act. A time when Britain plunged into a new Dark Age of the most restrictive censorship, where the horror movie became the bloody eviscerated victim of continuing dread created by self-aggrandizing moral guardians. With passionate and entertaining interviews from the people who lived through it and more jaw dropping archive footage, get ready to reflect and rejoice the passing of a landmark era.

Video Nasties: Draconian Days

2014

Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies poster
NR

In recent years, horror cinema has become an unavoidable phenomenon whether in America, Asia or Europe. Zombies, viruses and apocalypses have become familiar elements of popular culture. What do the horror films of the 2000's reveal about our world, about our politics, about ourselves? Why such a revival of horror today?

Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies

2010

No artwork available
6.0

A look back at the first decade of 21st Century horror films and the filmmakers that re-energized the genre.

The Splat Pack

2010

Series credits

Behind the camera

Hellboy poster
5.6

Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.

Hellboy

2019

The Descent poster
7.0

After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they search for a way out, the group discovers they are not alone—lurking in the darkness are savage, cave-dwelling creatures. With rising tension and dwindling trust, the women must fight to survive against both the predators and each other.

The Descent

2005

The Descent poster
7.0

After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they search for a way out, the group discovers they are not alone—lurking in the darkness are savage, cave-dwelling creatures. With rising tension and dwindling trust, the women must fight to survive against both the predators and each other.

The Descent

2005

Dog Soldiers poster
6.7

A band of soldiers is dispatched to war games deep in the woods. When they stumble across a rival team slaughtered in camp, they realize they're not alone.

Dog Soldiers

2002

Dog Soldiers poster
6.7

A band of soldiers is dispatched to war games deep in the woods. When they stumble across a rival team slaughtered in camp, they realize they're not alone.

Dog Soldiers

2002

Doomsday poster
5.9

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Doomsday

2008

Doomsday poster
5.9

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Doomsday

2008

The Lair poster
5.6

Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.

The Lair

2022

The Lair poster
5.6

Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.

The Lair

2022

Centurion poster
6.2

Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.

Centurion

2010

Centurion poster
6.2

Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.

Centurion

2010

The Reckoning poster
6.4

In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.

The Reckoning

2021

The Reckoning poster
6.4

In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.

The Reckoning

2021

Tales of Halloween poster
5.7

Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.

Tales of Halloween

2015

Tales of Halloween poster
5.7

Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.

Tales of Halloween

2015

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience poster
8.6

The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to defend Castle Black from the Wildings and features one the fiercest and most intense battle scenes ever filmed for television. The second episode (S4 EP10), features Dany coming to grips with the realities of ruling a kingdom, Bran learning the startling reality of his destiny and Tyrion facing the truth of his unfortunate situation.

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

2015

Compulsion poster
6.3

Two women—Diana, a flamboyant and ruthless thief, and Evie, a seemingly innocent young woman with a troubled past—become embroiled in a series of horrific murders on the island of Malta.

Compulsion

2024

Compulsion poster
6.3

Two women—Diana, a flamboyant and ruthless thief, and Evie, a seemingly innocent young woman with a troubled past—become embroiled in a series of horrific murders on the island of Malta.

Compulsion

2024

Duchess poster
5.6

A tough, working-class petty criminal is drawn into the treacherous world of diamond smuggling and morphs into an anti-heroine to be reckoned with in the murky underworld.

Duchess

2024

Duchess poster
5.6

A tough, working-class petty criminal is drawn into the treacherous world of diamond smuggling and morphs into an anti-heroine to be reckoned with in the murky underworld.

Duchess

2024

No artwork available
NR

A serial killer obsessed with perfection kidnaps a woman named Mary Doyle, but as detectives close in, they discover that Mary is far from a victim. She is a dangerous escapee from a psychiatric institution with a violent past of her own. After killing her captor and disappearing without a trace, the investigation is turned on its head, leaving law enforcement hunting an even greater threat.

The Spiral Down

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No artwork available
NR

A serial killer obsessed with perfection kidnaps a woman named Mary Doyle, but as detectives close in, they discover that Mary is far from a victim. She is a dangerous escapee from a psychiatric institution with a violent past of her own. After killing her captor and disappearing without a trace, the investigation is turned on its head, leaving law enforcement hunting an even greater threat.

The Spiral Down

—

Keep Young and Beautiful poster
NR

Short film about the pressure to stay 'young and beautiful' whilst tackling animal testing and child labour.

Keep Young and Beautiful

2025

Combat poster
4.5

A group of friends go out to the pub for a drink and a flirt, but things don't go quite as planned.

Combat

1999

Combat poster
4.5

A group of friends go out to the pub for a drink and a flirt, but things don't go quite as planned.

Combat

1999

Killing Time poster
5.4

After the mobster who murdered his partner is acquitted, semicorrupt detective Robert Bryant hires a beautiful female assassin, Maria, to kill him. When he discovers that he cannot afford Maria's services, Bryant is forced to hire another assassin, Madison, to kill her. Maria survives the doublecross and sets out to collect what's owed to her, one way or another.

Killing Time

1998

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hooked

2011

The Last Post poster
NR

An old lady in a nursing home is visited by a mysterious man no one else seems to be able to see.

The Last Post

2011

The Halloween Kid poster
NR

Henry is a lonely child who lives for his favourite holiday.

The Halloween Kid

2012

No artwork available
NR

Plot TBA; the fifth instalment of the Cities of Love franchise which previously touched down in Paris, New York, Rio and Berlin.

London, I Love You

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No artwork available
NR

Plot TBA; the fifth instalment of the Cities of Love franchise which previously touched down in Paris, New York, Rio and Berlin.

London, I Love You

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Skeleton Coast poster
NR

A film crew crashes in the Namibian desert and soon finds themselves being hunted by both a pack of hyena and a ruthless team of hi-tech poachers.

Skeleton Coast

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Skeleton Coast poster
NR

A film crew crashes in the Namibian desert and soon finds themselves being hunted by both a pack of hyena and a ruthless team of hi-tech poachers.

Skeleton Coast

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No artwork available
NR

A survival horror set against the savage isolation of a North Sea oil rig overtaken by a pagan sect.

Gunn

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No artwork available
NR

A serial-influenced action adventure set in World War II, centered around a character named Jack Ravenscroft. Story also takes inspiration from Raiders of the Lost Ark but with the humor stripped out, as well as a Die Hard approach to the violence.

Eagle's Nest

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No artwork available
NR

A serial-influenced action adventure set in World War II, centered around a character named Jack Ravenscroft. Story also takes inspiration from Raiders of the Lost Ark but with the humor stripped out, as well as a Die Hard approach to the violence.

Eagle's Nest

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No artwork available
NR

A serial-influenced action adventure set in World War II, centered around a character named Jack Ravenscroft. Story also takes inspiration from Raiders of the Lost Ark but with the humor stripped out, as well as a Die Hard approach to the violence.

Eagle's Nest

—

Brain Death poster
NR

Three scientist at a arctic research centre find a colleague dead and discover his experiments may have caused a zombie outbreak. Early short film by Neil Marshall available on 'Tales of Halloween' blu ray.

Brain Death

1992

Brain Death poster
NR

Three scientist at a arctic research centre find a colleague dead and discover his experiments may have caused a zombie outbreak. Early short film by Neil Marshall available on 'Tales of Halloween' blu ray.

Brain Death

1992

Brain Death poster
NR

Three scientist at a arctic research centre find a colleague dead and discover his experiments may have caused a zombie outbreak. Early short film by Neil Marshall available on 'Tales of Halloween' blu ray.

Brain Death

1992