While I remain skeptical on Neil Marshall‘s follow up to his terrific horror flick The Descent, Doomsday, which isn’t being screened here in Seattle (never a good sign), this new deal has certainly peaked my attention.
Marshall will follow up Doomsday with Sacrilege, a horror film set in the Old West. Marshall tells Variety, “It is set during the Gold Rush, a time remembered for incidents like the Donner Party. It is meant to be a pitch-black, gritty, period horror movie.” The best news may be that the picture will draw on themes of isolation and paranoia and such influences as John Carpenter’s The Thing, a film I believe may be one of the top five horror films of all time (at least that I have seen).
Want another quote? How about when Marshall says, “This is Unforgiven by way of H.P. Lovecraft, with that grim, gritty setting and a horror element nobody has seen before.”
He is certainly setting the bar high.
