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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Editor Born: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England Biography:The British writer/director of horror Neil Marshall struck gold when his low-budget 2002 gorefest Dog Soldiers revitalized the werewolf genre. Born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, on May 25, 1970, Marshall developed an affinity for the bloodcurdling at a tender age. At five or six years old, his folks let him stay up past his bedtime and watch Frankenstein on TV; the kid was hooked, not only by the pic's ability to scare him but by its ability to help him empathize with the monster. He subsequently dove headfirst into the genre, soaking up as many frightfests as he could (The Shining, The Omen, John Carpenter's The Thing, and others) and made Super 8 mm films as an adolescent with his best friend, "shooting, editing, special effects, the lot. And along the way we learned so much from making so many mistakes."
Film school in Newcastle and a thesis effort, the short Brain Death, followed. Not long... Full Biography
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