Trailer Tuesday: Doomsday



Doomsday is the latest movie from director Neil Marshall, the man behind horror thrillers Dog Soldiers and The Descent. Marshall is an interesting filmmaker because while on the one hand he works very much within genre conventions, on the other he normally brings something unexpected to the mix.

Action thriller Doomsday looks like a lot of violent fun... but it also looks incredibly derivative, a sort of Resident Evil meets Escape from New York meets Mad Max meets 28 Weeks Later. In fact, Doomsday has been nicknamed Escape from Glasgow. However, I just can't believe it's that simple... Marshall must have something extra up his sleeve to freshen the tired formula and bring out the forgotten flavour.


Anyway, here's the film's plot synopsis, from Movieweb.com:

In the action-packed new thriller from writer/director Neil Marshall ("The Descent"), authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades - until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair, is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Doomsday stars former Lara Croft model-turned-actress, Rhona Mitra, as well as Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell, and assorted Neil Marshall regulars.

Out of interest to South Africans, apart from location filming in Glasgow, Doomsday was largely shot in and around Cape Town. So be on the look out for local semi-famous faces when the film is eventually released locally.


Doomsday opens in North America on 14 March.

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