Neil Marshall's 10 Post-Apocalyptic Picks
Just a few scenes into Doomsday and we know we're watching the work of someone who adores post-apocalyptic films, with every scene littered with references to end-of-the-world classics from the 70s and 80s. And writer-director Neil Marshall readily admits that's exactly what he was going for.
"Right from the start, I wanted my film to be an homage to these sorts of movies, and deliberately so," he says. "I wanted to make a movie for a new generation of audience that hadn't seen those movies in the cinema - hadn't seen them at all maybe - and to give them the same thrill that I got from watching them. But kind of contemporise it, pump up the action and the blood and guts."
This is a rather surprising shift for the filmmaker behind Dog Soldiers and The Descent, two claustrophobic thrillers that got deep into their characters' heads. But Doomsday is a big, loud action movie, and Marshall reveals to RT readers the films that inspired him most...
"Right from the start, I wanted my film to be an homage to these sorts of movies, and deliberately so," he says. "I wanted to make a movie for a new generation of audience that hadn't seen those movies in the cinema - hadn't seen them at all maybe - and to give them the same thrill that I got from watching them. But kind of contemporise it, pump up the action and the blood and guts."
This is a rather surprising shift for the filmmaker behind Dog Soldiers and The Descent, two claustrophobic thrillers that got deep into their characters' heads. But Doomsday is a big, loud action movie, and Marshall reveals to RT readers the films that inspired him most...
John Z. Delorean on 05-6-2008 08:12 AM
They definitely inspired him because Doomsday is just a mashup of all these movies. Loved The Descent though so I'll let him breathe.