Once upon a time, Neil Marshall was singled out as one of the horror genre’s fastest-rising young talents, which was completely fair when his first two features were Dog Soldiers and The Descent, each of which found massive levels of support among critics, audiences, and gorehounds in general. Sadly, he’s never truly managed to recapture that form, with The Reckoning another disappointment.
Ironically, Marshall has arguably done his best work on the small screen across the last two decades, having helmed phenomenal episodes of Game of Thrones, Black Sails, Westworld, and Lost in Space. On the feature-length front, though, it’s been one disappointment after the other from Doomsday and Centurion to the disastrous Hellboy reboot.