Neil Marshal to Possibly Direct Slasher-flick "Hellfest"

Neil Marshal has etched out a nice little niche in film by making good genre movies such as 'Doomsday' and 'The Descent'.  He has so far directed four features, all of them are solid.

While he's not exactly John Carpenter, he definitely has talent and I respect his choice of stories and versatility.

His newest proposed project is called 'Hellfest' and is about a masked killer who kills unsuspecting visitors to an amusement park on Halloween night. (My guess is that most of the visitors will be young, beautiful people... call it a hunch.)

The location also offers a good chance to contrast the bright flashing lights of the amusement park with the, no doubt, graphic blood and gore of a slasher flick.

Marshal has proven himself with horror previously with both 'Dog Soldiers' and 'The Descent', so I'm personally excited to see how he handles a different sub-genre of horror.

There are no scheduled dates of release, or even a production start, at this time and Marshal is only in early talks with CBS Films to come aboard.  Fortunately (or unfortunately), however, Marshal hasn't been exactly crammed with work lately (his most recent gig being an episode for the second season on 'Game of Thrones'), so hopefully he will join the production and get a chance to add to his anthology of genre films.

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