Doomsday (2008)

British science fiction film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in a futuristic United Kingdom, that quarantined an infected Scotland which has since been presumed dead. Rhona Mitra stars as the heroine who leads a team to seek a cure in inhospitable Scotland when the virus begins to belatedly emerge in their preserved homeland of England. Marshall described Doomsday as an homage to numerous films from his childhood, including Mad Max and Escape from New York. Filming took place in Scotland and South Africa in the course of 2007. Doomsday was released on 14 March 2008 in the United States and Canada and in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2008.