Cast: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, Malcolm McDowell, Stephen Modell, Adrian Lester, Sean Pertwee, Langley Kirkwood, Tony Jeeves, Chris Robson, Rick Warden, Nora-Jane Noone, Jon Falkow, Jeremy Crutchley, Craig Conway, MyAnna Buring, Martin Compston, David O'Hara

Director: Neil Marshall
Writer: Neil Marshall
Producers: Benedict Carver, Steven Paul
Executive Producers: Marc D. Evans, Trevor Macy, Peter McAleese, Andrew Rona
Art Direction: Susan Collin, David Doran, Jonathan Hely-Hutchinson, Rhian Nicholas, Emer O'Sullivan, Andy Thomson, John Trafford
Costumes: John Norster
D.O.P.: Sam McCurdy
Editor: Andrew MacRitchie, Neil Marshall
Production Design: Simon Bowles
Set Decoration: Mark Auret, Zoe Smith

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.

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Filming Locations: Cape Town, South Africa ; Glasgow, Scotland; London, UK
MPAA Warning: Strong Bloody Violence, Language and Some Sexual Content/Nudity
Production Budget: $30 million
Production Companies: Crystal Sky Pictures, Intrepid Pictures,
Moonlighting Films, Rogue Pictures
Production Schedule: 9th February 2007 - May 2007
Web Sites: Official Site - The IMDb

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- The story was inspired by post-apocalyptic thriller films that Neil Marshall had grown up watching. He cited as influences the films Mad Max (1979), The Road Warrior (1981),[9] Escape from New York (1981), Metalstorm (1983), The Warriors (1979),[10] Excalibur (1981), and works of director Terry Gilliam.

- On May 1, 2007, filming in the UK commenced at Scotland's Blackness Castle for a ten-day shoot.

- A massive car chase scene was also filmed for Doomsday, described by Marshall to be one part Mad Max, one part Bullitt (1968), and one part "something else entirely different".

- The film was previously intended to be distributed by Focus Features under Rogue Pictures, but the company transferred Doomsday among other films to Universal Studios for larger-scale distribution and marketing beginning in 2008.

- The film contains the director's trademark gore and violence from previous films, including a scene where a character is cooked alive and eaten.

- Paul Hyett, the prosthetic make-up designer who worked on Marshall's previous film The Descent, contributed to the production, researching diseases including sexually transmitted diseases to design the make-up for victims of the Reaper virus.

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