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Doomsday [ R18+ ]
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DVD Release: 01 October 2008
Cinema Release: 01 October 2008
Stars: Rhoma Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell, Sean Pertwee, Alexander Siddig, Adrian Lester, Craig Conway
Rating: R18+
Genre: Horror
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| The End Is Nigh. |
| "Director Neil Marshall’s debut, the smash-hit Dog Soldiers, was a werewolf film like no other. Influenced by the zombie films of the great George A Romero, it was an exciting combination of blood, gore, black humour and terrific effects. It also had a great story – something a lot of these horror movies tend to ignore.
Doomsday, equally as scary and just as action-packed, is another solid effort from Marshall. It has cult hit written all over it. Like his previous effort, you can tell he just wants to give the audience a good time – and he does!
Set in a post-apocalyptic United Kingdom, most of Scotland has been quarantined and presumed dead 30 years before, after the lethal ‘Reaper’ virus decimated humankind. With the virus reawakening in their preserved homeland of England, a one-eyed heroine named Eden (Rhona Mitra) – whose own mother was left in the quarantined area when she was a tyke - leads a team to go behind the wall. They’ve received photographs of humans walking the streets, leading them to believe there has to be a cure, so they must locate a doctor (Malcolm McDowell) – the only man genius enough to have found a cure, if that’s what has actually happened.
If Dog Soldiers paid homage to the classic films of Romero, then Doomsday is for John Carpenter. It’s clear that Escape from New York (1981) and The Thing (1982) influenced Marshall this time around.
There’s a great bunch of characters here - we’ve got a kick-butt heroine (Rhona Mitra, of TVs Boston Legal, finally graduating to leading lady status), a terrifically shady prime minister (Alexander Siddig of TV’s 24) and a gung-ho doctor (Sean Pertwee, Dog Soldiers). It’s great to see the legendary Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) back on the big screen too, playing the doctor who literally holds the fate of the world in his hands.
Doomsday plays like one of the great action thrillers of the past, and Marshall says that was his intention from the get-go. “Right from the start, I wanted my film to pay homage to those sorts of movies, and deliberately so. I wanted to make a movie for a new generation of audience that hadn’t seen those movies in the cinema - hadn’t seen them at all maybe - and to give them the same thrill that I got from watching them. But kind of contemporise it, pump up the action and the blood and guts.”
Strap in, hold on and enjoy!
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