---
name: "Mark Towns"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-towns"
fi1m_id: "mark-towns"
imdb_id: "nm1576700"
tmdb_id: 1077474
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "5 January 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-02T23:06:29.245714+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mark Towns

## Identity

Mark Towns

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-towns
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-towns
- **IMDb ID:** nm1576700
- **TMDB ID:** 1077474
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1576700/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1077474

Editor. Born 5 January 1974 in Winchester, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 5 January 1974, Winchester, England, UK
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Andrea Cornwell](https://film.one/person/andrea-cornwell.md), [Oliver Kassman](https://film.one/person/oliver-kassman.md), [Rose Glass](https://film.one/person/rose-glass.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 75 (2), 2020s 78 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 74 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Thriller 3, Drama 2, Crime 1, Horror 1, Mystery 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $15m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1576700/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1077474

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Saint Maud*](https://film.one/film/saint-maud.md) (82), [*Lilting*](https://film.one/film/lilting.md) (73)
- **AMC+:** [*The Survivalist*](https://film.one/film/the-survivalist.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Mark Towns is a British film editor. He was born on 5 January 1974 in Winchester, England.

Towns has edited a number of feature films, including *The Ritual* (2017), *Saint Maud* (2020), *Censor* (2021), *Choose or Die* (2022), *The Strays* (2023) and *Love Lies Bleeding* (2024). He has worked repeatedly with director Rose Glass on the latter two titles. Towns received a BAFTA nomination for his editing work.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Love Lies Bleeding* (2024), Fi1m 75, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/love-lies-bleeding.md)
- *Saint Maud* (2020), Fi1m 82, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/saint-maud.md)
- *The Survivalist* (2015), Fi1m 77, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-survivalist.md)
- *Lilting* (2014), Fi1m 73, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/lilting.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Man in My Basement* (2025), Editor
- *Hot Milk* (2025), Editor
- *Love Lies Bleeding* (2024), Editor — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/love-lies-bleeding.md)
- *Ballywalter* (2023), Editor
- *The Strays* (2023), Editor
- *Choose or Die* (2022), Editor
- *No One Gets Out Alive* (2021), Editor
- *Censor* (2021), Editor
- *In the Shadow of 9/11* (2021), Editor
- *Saint Maud* (2020), Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/saint-maud.md)
- *Monsoon* (2020), Editor
- *Eve* (2019), Editor
- *Gwen* (2018), Editor
- *The Ritual* (2017), Editor
- *3 Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks* (2016), Editor
- *High Class Call Girls* (2015), Editor
- *The Survivalist* (2015), Editor — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-survivalist.md)
- *Terror at the Mall* (2014), Editor
- *Lilting* (2014), Editor — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/lilting.md)
- *Magpie* (2014), Editor
- *The Borderlands* (2014), Editor
- *Spoiler Alert* (2013), Editor
- *SLR* (2013), Editor
- *Boys on Film 8: Cruel Britannia* (2012), Editor
- *Don't Let Him In* (2011), Editor
- *Spring* (2011), Editor
- *Boys On Film 1: Hard Love* (2009), Editor
- *My Car is My Lover* (2008), Editor
- *Summer* (2006), Editor
- *Manilla Envelopes* (2006), Editor
- *Waiting for Movement* (2005), Editor

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