Neil Marshall (1970)

 life and career

Marshall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He was first inspired to become a film director when he saw Raiders of the Lost Ark at the age of eleven. He began making home movies using Super 8 mm film, and in 1989, he attended film school at Newcastle Polytechnic . In the next eight years, he worked as a freelance editor. In 1995, he was hired to co-write and edit for director Bharat Nalluri's first film, Killing Time. Marshall continued to write and develop his own projects, directing his first film in 2002, Dog Soldiers, a horror film that became a cult film in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005, he followed up with a second horror film, The Descent . With his direction of The Descent, Neil Marshall was identified as a member of the Splat Pack.

Marshall identified nine of his "guilty pleasures" in cinema: 1941 , Battle Beyond the Stars , Excalibur , Top Secret! , Race for the Yankee Zephyr , High Risk , Big Trouble in Little China , The Sword and the Sorcerer , and The Legend of Boggy Creek .