Neil Marshall

What I respect about Neil Marshall is that he made his name in the trenches of British horror before anyone handed him a budget. The Descent still feels like the high-water mark to me, claustrophobia done with real craft, and it's no accident he also cut his own films. The pivot into bigger studio fare like the 2019 Hellboy didn't land the same way for me, which I think says more about the machinery around those productions than his instincts. I keep coming back to the idea that he's at his sharpest when the scale is small and the stakes are personal.

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Name (English)

Neil Marshall

Name (Japanese)

ニール・マーシャル

Reading

にーる・まーしゃる

Born

May 25, 1970 (age 56)

Origin

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Occupation

screenwriter / film director / film editor / television director / executive producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

University

Northumbria University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Marshall
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944459

Tags

• screenwriter
• film director
• film editor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.