Neil Marshall has revealed that he likes to 'blend and cross genres' when making movies.
And he is back on the big screen this week with a historic themed movie, quite a shift from the horror films he has made in the past, with Centurion.
Speaking to metro the filmmaker said: "I see myself more as an action director. All right, I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable.
"I always say Dog Soldiers is a siege or a soldier movie with werewolves, not a werewolf movie with soldiers.
"The primary element is making the soldiers authentic - then we can add fantasy on top of that reality."
Centurion brings together a great cast of Michael Fassbender, Noel Clarke, Dominic West and David Morrissey and is Marshall's first movie since Doomsday back in 2008.
"It's like Braveheart from the English point of view. Or like The Last Of The Mohicans meets The Warriors - or like Gladiator meets Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid.
"I used to watch Westerns on TV with my dad and to me Centurion is very similar to an old John Ford cavalry movie, with the Romans as the cavalry and the Picts as the Apaches.
"Those movies would now be seen as incredibly un-PC. We're all rooting for the cavalry who are committing genocide on the Native Americans.
"I'm doing the same kind of thing in that I'm telling the story from the invader's point of view but I want you to root for the individuals not their politics."
Centurion is released 23rd April.
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