Mad Madge
02/02/08 00:58 Filed in: Personal
Just checked out Apple's film trailer site and stumbled across this 'gem'. Doomsday
OK. Right from the off it's clear that this film is a cross between.
a. 28 days later
b. Resident Evil
c. Mad Max
d. Escape from New York
Lead is played by newbie Rhona Mitra playing 'Eden Sinclair'. Think of her as being a cheaper (cost wise) 'Alice' (Resident Evil).
Virus takes over country (the UK). Think 28 days later, only deadly. Everybody not infected legs it to Scotland blah blah. 'Infected / Wild' side of country is sealed off by a giant barrier. In the same way as Manhattan island was transformed into a giant prison in Escape from New York. She goes in the find a cure, runs into anarchic elements on the wild side. Lots of car chases... that's our Mad Max element and so forth.
It seems to have been mainly shot in Scotland, London or South Africa.
Starting the aforementioned Rhona Mitra, always good for a giggle Malcolm McDowell (in a role that appears similar to Dennis Hoppers role in the most recent 'of the dead' movies), perennial cock-er-ney Bob Hoskins (who was actually born in Bury St. Edmonds and only seems to have received a cockney accent during the mid-70s). The very watchable Sean Pertwee. David O'Hara who people might remember got his first big break as "The Monocled Mutineer". Rick Warden who was in Band of Brothers as Harry Welsh and most recently got ate by a Sabretoothed tiger in Primeval.
The list... it goes on.
Will it be the Citizen Kane of Action/Horror? I doubt it. But you never know........... After all, the writer/director is Neil Marshall of the very excellent Werewolf (there wolf, there castle) movie Dog Soldiers and sheer chilling "The Descent" fame. So, you never know.
OK. Right from the off it's clear that this film is a cross between.
a. 28 days later
b. Resident Evil
c. Mad Max
d. Escape from New York
Lead is played by newbie Rhona Mitra playing 'Eden Sinclair'. Think of her as being a cheaper (cost wise) 'Alice' (Resident Evil).
Virus takes over country (the UK). Think 28 days later, only deadly. Everybody not infected legs it to Scotland blah blah. 'Infected / Wild' side of country is sealed off by a giant barrier. In the same way as Manhattan island was transformed into a giant prison in Escape from New York. She goes in the find a cure, runs into anarchic elements on the wild side. Lots of car chases... that's our Mad Max element and so forth.
It seems to have been mainly shot in Scotland, London or South Africa.
Starting the aforementioned Rhona Mitra, always good for a giggle Malcolm McDowell (in a role that appears similar to Dennis Hoppers role in the most recent 'of the dead' movies), perennial cock-er-ney Bob Hoskins (who was actually born in Bury St. Edmonds and only seems to have received a cockney accent during the mid-70s). The very watchable Sean Pertwee. David O'Hara who people might remember got his first big break as "The Monocled Mutineer". Rick Warden who was in Band of Brothers as Harry Welsh and most recently got ate by a Sabretoothed tiger in Primeval.
The list... it goes on.
Will it be the Citizen Kane of Action/Horror? I doubt it. But you never know........... After all, the writer/director is Neil Marshall of the very excellent Werewolf (there wolf, there castle) movie Dog Soldiers and sheer chilling "The Descent" fame. So, you never know.
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