BBC - Movies - interview - Michael J Bassett

He'd been a wildlife photographer, a TV presenter and even a puppeteer before he bought himself a video camera in the 80s, but it was only with his 2002 wartime horror Deathwatch that Michael J Bassett became a Brit director to reckon with. Now Shropshire's answer to Wez Craven has followed up his feature film debut with Wilderness, a survival horror about a group of teenage criminals dispatched to an island for an outward bound course that comes complete with one pyschotic killer.

WATCH: Michael J Bassett on nasty people doing nasty things in Wilderness.

Wilderness is released in UK cinemas on Friday 11th August 2006.

Fact File

Date of Birth:
He's keeping schtum

Famous For: Letting Andy Serkis indulge his psychotic side in Deathwatch

Infamous For: Spending a year voicing and operating Childrens ITV puppet Scally the Dog

Soundbite: "As a writer/director, clearly you're arrogant and have a large ego otherwise you wouldn't be involved in the first place"

Useless Fact: Would he ever do a Richard Curtis-style rom-com? Maybe with added blood?

What we really want to know: He used to present a TV show with Lee Evans

MOVIES Links

Wilderness review