Doomsday

Synopsis: A lethal virus spreads throughout Scotland, infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in London. An elite group of specialists, including Eden Sinclair, is urgently dispatched into Scotland 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.

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director(s): Neil Marshall

Actors: Caryn Peterson, Adeola Ariyo, Emma Cleasby, Christine Tomlinson

Production: Universal Pictures

1 nomination.


IMDB:: 6.0
Metacritic:: 51
Rotten Tomatoes:: 51%

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: R
Year:: 2008
: 105 min
: $10,955,425
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KANE:
Like so many
epidemics before,
the loss of so many lives
began with a single
microscopic organism.
It's human nature to seek even
the smallest comfort in reason
or logic for events
as catastrophic as these.
But a virus doesn't
choose a time or place.
It doesn't hate
or even care.
(SCREAMING)
It just happens.
(HORN BLARING)
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
MAN ON MEGAPHONE:
Go back to your homes!
KANE:
The Reaper virus
spread among the population
of Glasgow
like a common cold.
There was no stopping it.
No cure. No vaccine.
It claimed the lives
of thousands in
the first week.
This is the end of the world!
KANE:
In an attempt
to quell the outbreak,
martial law was implemented.
Roadblocks set up.
Curfews enforced.
KATHERINE:
Come on, darling.
We have to walk now.
The airports, seaports
and borders were closed.
Scotland was placed
under quarantine.
The people were ordered
to stay in their homes, to
avoid travel, avoid contact,
to sit it out
and wait for help
that did not come.
(ALL CLAMORING)
(SHOUTING)
Stay back!
You got to
let us through!
Get out of the way! Move!
Move! Get out of the way!
Walk on, will you?
Hey, you! You!
I'm talking at you!
Get down on
the floor now!
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
Everybody, down!
Don't shoot!
You f*cker!
(ALL SHOUTING)
Fall back! Fall back!
SOLDIER:
Get out of the way!
Please let us go!
Onward!
(SCREAMS)
Are you all right?
MAN:
You bastard!
Look at me,
darling. Look at...
(CRYING)
(EXCLAIMS)
SOLDIER 1:
Go! Go! Go!
(ALARM SOUNDING)
SOLDIER 2:
Hold the line!
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
Gas!
(SCREAMING)
Easy, girl. Come here.
Help me!
Please! Take us with you!
Get back!
We're too heavy!
We have to get off now!
Step away from
the helicopter!
Give her a chance!
No, wait!
What are you doing?
Get back
in the helicopter!
Now!
Take the girl!
We have to go now!
Hold tight, sweetheart!
Everything's going
to be okay!
Come on!
(GRUNTING)
Stay back!
Take this!
So she'll know!
Hold on tight,
sweetheart!
Eden!
(SOBBING)
KANE:
The wall
stood 30 feet high,
clad in steel armor plating.
It followed the line of
the ancient Roman frontier,
2,000 years before,
spanning 18 miles,
east coast to west,
cutting Britain in half.
Coastal waters were mined
and patrolled. The skies
were declared a no-fly zone,
and orders were given to
shoot down any aircraft in
violation of the quarantine.
The idea was simple.
Nobody came out,
and nobody went in.
They needn't have worried
about the second part.
Those abandoned within
the quarantine zone
were left to die.
Social order decayed
along with the corpses.
The streets ran with blood
as the people fought
to stay alive.
The bodies burned
in their thousands. Looting,
rape and murder became rife.
Fire spread as the cities
were plundered,
and the last to die
became primal savages,
feeding on dogs, rats
and finally, on each other.
As the weeks turned to months,
the funeral pyres
faded and died.
In time, all the lights
burned out,
consigning the country north
of the wall first to memory
and eventually to history.
But just as the government
had turned its back
on the hot zone,
so the rest of the world
turned its back on Britain.
With hundreds of thousands
unemployed, homeless
and destitute,
the situation has reached
breaking point.
It now remains only
a matter of time
before the laws of nature
seek to redress the balance.
Targets are in play.
MICHAELSON:
Start recording.
(BEEPING)
Sinclair, Richter
is the biggest slave
trader in the city.
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Neil Marshall

Neil Marshall (born 25 May 1970) is an English film director, editor and screenwriter. Marshall began his career in editing and in 2002 directed his first feature film Dog Soldiers, a horror-comedy film which became a cult film. He followed up with the critically acclaimed horror film The Descent in 2005. Marshall also directed Doomsday in 2008, and wrote and directed Centurion in 2010. He has also directed two prominent episodes of US television series Game of Thrones: "Blackwater" and "The Watchers on the Wall", with particular acclaim for his direction on both occasions, as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for "The Watchers on the Wall". more…

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