Neil Marshall

Yeah.

But the director and writer of this, Neil Marshall, also directed The Descent, which is a fantastic horror movie that will almost certainly eventually do for this podcast.

Yeah, no, that makes me very uncomfortable.

And yeah, well, right.

on.

Hold on.

Neil Marshall.

Email me.

And I, I've read a fair amount of the hell boy comics and, uh, Again, I'm sad we're not going to get the Guillermo del Toro.

The remake that they did in 2019, the Neil Marshall, David Harbour.

Yeah.

There's a couple of bits of Bob's that works okay in that.

I didn't get a chance to rewatch it this week, but I think I'm going to do what you did, Moose.

I'm going to rewatch 1 and 2.

And I don't mind the Neil Marshall one.

I think it's okay.

On Saturday, not Friday, it'll be Halloween.

I'll be posting a show about Neil Marshall's Spelunkin adventure, The Descent, on Halloween itself, not on Friday.

And an actual scary movie this month.

I've covered nine movies with that one,

It was released in 2005.

This is written and directed by Neil Marshall, known for the movies The Dog Soldiers and Byzantium.

Music here is by David Julian Duncan.

We have covered a movie he has scored as well.

So I'll set us up with our director bit.

Also, this film has been out so long and Neil Marshall, the director, is such a yapper that there is so much information and facts and things that just relate to this film.

So I feel like we should dive in, as they say.

Mate, I'm looking forward to diving in to spelunk.

Well, I will try and I'll try and meet it out in digestible doses.

But for our introduction.

So The Descent was released in 2005 and was directed by Neil Marshall.

We love Neil Marshall, friend of the podcast, a fellow Geordie.

Yes.

So this movie, The Descent, year after Shaun of the Dead, 2005, directed by Neil Marshall, budget of 3.5 million pounds.

Box office, $57.1 million.

It would spawn a sequel.

Cause like, I've never done anything like this hardcore, but I'm a scuba diver and like, I do all kinds of, you know, outdoors camping and backpacking and stuff like that.

And, uh, like this is to me this is like a premise that like i'm in on every time right but and then it has like some legitimately horrifying imagery uh on top of that but andrew uh i don't know i mean what's your relationship with it

yeah no i definitely saw it around when it came out um I remember that Neil Marshall had made a movie called Dog Soldiers about werewolves taking on a military group, a troop that was on sort of like a Southern Comfort kind of thing, but with werewolves

and British.

Um, you know, we just had a sequel to "Fall" this year, which, uh, the original "Fall" was, you know, kind of ingenious in the way that it used a very low budget to present, you know, uh, that sort of classic we're stuck in a precarious position and how do we survive to get out of it.

Um, you know, I've always loved movies like "The Descent," uh, the Neil Marshall movie from 2005, 2006, uh, which even before creatures show up in that movie, it's pretty harrowing because these gals are stuck-

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... underground.

i thought of it officially uh but it was who wants to go over cat do you want to introduce the director and all that good stuff

yeah So it was directed by Neil Marshall, who also did the 2019 Hellboy, the Lost in Space 2010s TV series.

Did you watch that? it

wasn't great

For realism, the makers often limited the lighting of the sets to light sources that the protagonist actually brought with them, such as flashlights, helmet lights, light sticks, etc.

So that gives the authenticity to it.

I did like to say that Neil Marshall shot many of the crawlers at 18 frames per second with a 45 degree shutter to get them a staccato movement.

So they look like they're moving almost like an extraterrestrial, but like creature effect and not just... too weird at around one minute as stated in the cast commentary this is a fun fact that says at around one minute so if you hit play um as stated in the cast commentary on the special edition dvd shauna mcdonald natty mendoza and alex reed did the entire white rata rafting without any stunts so i said that but the fun fact was that one minute like what the are you time stamping at one minute it's like that's crazy uh let's see number five you're at director neil marshall's insistence all the people playing the villainous crawlers Cat calls them chuds, were professional actors rather than stuntmen or dancers.