Doomsday (2008)


Rhona Mitra             Eden Sinclair
Bob Hoskins             Bill Nelson
Alexander Siddig        John Hatcher
Adrian Lester           Norton
Sean Pertwee            Dr. Talbot
Darren Morfitt          Dr. Ben Stirling
Emma Cleasby            Katherine Sinclair
MyAnna Buring           Cally
Leanne Liebenberg       Viper
Nora-Jane Noone         Read
Leslie Simpson          Carpenter
Craig Conway            Sol
David O Hara            Michael Canaris
Rick Warden             Chandler
Martin Compston         Joshua
Cal Macaninch           Chancellor Falco

Directed by:            Neil Marshall
Produced by:            Trevor Macy (II), Marc Evans (IV), Peter McAleese


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 (Rhona Mitra), 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.

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The year is 2008, and a pandemic threatens to wipe out the whole of the human race. For many in the 
United Kingdom--the epicenter of the outbreak--the end is nigh, so why bother to keep count? Within 
days of detection of the Reaper virus millions are infected in Scotland, the killer disease's home 
turf. Government has no choice but to declare the country a 'hot zone' and quarantine the populace in 
hopes of containing the Reaper's spread. What was once Scotland is now a forgotten No Man's Land, with 
the Reaper given free reign to annihilate the population sealed inside. A quarter of a century later, 
with a new outbreak of the Reaper resurfacing in London, it becomes apparent that the government's best 
laid plans have gone completely, bloody awry. Department of Domestic Security (DDS) Chief Bill Nelson is 
summoned to meet with the prime minister and the true power behind his office, Michael Canaris, who reveal 
satellite photos of Reaper survivors in the hot zone. And survivors must mean there's a cure. Nelson quickly 
assembles a crack team of specialists to venture into the forsaken land and retrieve the counteragent to 
the virus. For the tough and efficient commanding officer, Major Eden Sinclair, the assignment represents 
a disquieting homecoming. Twenty-five years earlier, she had been shoved into one of the last evacuating 
military choppers and flown to safety--forced to leave her mother behind. Once on the other side of the 
immediately re-secured border, the squadron is on its own, venturing into a ghoulish terrain of 
corpse-strewn, forlorn cities. All too soon, however, the crew meets up with a pack of feral survivors, 
and finds itself unwittingly standing in for the callous government that turned its back years before.