Doomsday (2008)

Scotland has been isolated since a plague 30 years ago (something like the virus in 28 Days Later), but it turns out not everyone died, and a team is sent in to investigate (in vehicles not quite as cool as the ones in Damnation Alley). The soldiers are captured by mohican cannibals who party to eighties pop music (a funkier version of Escape From New York), before escaping to a medieval castle where people don’t seem to party much at all (Reign Of Fire style), and escape from there to have a car chase with the original captors (you know we had to go Mad Max at some point). Writer/Director Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent) gives us another enjoyable, if highly derivative, film, Rhona Mitra is great as the feisty, hero, Bob Hoskins is there to add some class, and Malcolm MacDowell is, as always, juicy as a villain.