The Oh, The Oh, Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror

Podcasting from the Hard Halls of Academia I'm Alex West with Andrea

Subisadty and we are getting down we are getting low we are on the DL we are going beneath the surface today to talk about the, one of our most requested films ever.

And possibly one of my favorite films ever.

Alex and I have been looking forward to recording this episode.

We've been maybe a little bit intimidated because we love

this film so much but we know you're really excited to talk about it and so are we and that's

our episode today. I think what is so singular about the dissent is it doesn't innovate a lot of stuff, not

really when you get down to the brass tax of it, but it is easily, I think you can dub it, a contemporary horror classic, if not a horror classic.

And the reason for that is because it's actually quite simple but really effective.

It nails everything it sets out to do. but really

easy shorthand.

the characters are who they are, we don't need a lot of backstory to them.

They show who they are through their actions and there is an economy of

storytelling in this which I think Neil Marshall, the director and writer, really nailed and I don't know if he's ever nailed it to this extent since.

I haven't been keeping up with all of his films.

The film I'd kind of say is my second favorite of his is probably Dog Soldiers.

And that's the other kind of pure horror film and then he got into more genre

films like there is a centurion I believe he did right after the dissent with

Michael Fastbender before he was Michael Fastbender and he's done a few others but the dissent is his calling card and why wouldn't it be it's a great classic film.

He also did Doomsday which I don't hate I actually feel like it's kind of one of my guilty

pleasures. It's not wonderful but it's really interesting visually. This is one

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