With his latest film Doomsday on the brink of release, Neil Marshall has announced his follow-up project. The Brit director will continue his horror streak with Sacrilege.
Though he’s still keeping details fairly close to his chest, Marshall told Variety that the film "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 Donner Party is not nearly so fun as it sounds. There was no cake, nor balloons. It actually refers to a group of American settlers in the 1840s who, when food became scarce during a harsh winter that kept them snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, resorted to eating each other. “It’s Unforgiven by way of H.P. Lovecraft, with that grim, gritty setting and a horror element nobody has seen before.”
Sounds like a solid basis for a good horror to us. That Marshall also says the film will have John Carpenter influences can only be a good thing, as long as he’s talking The Thing and not Ghosts of Mars.