Neil Marshall’s deranged thriller Doomsday is basically Mad Max on the motorway to Glasgow. The film opens in 2008 like a newsreel. A killer virus is ravaging Scotland. People covered in boils try to stream across the border. The army mows them down. Hadrian’s Wall is resurrected with 60ft sheets of steel. The entire population of Scotland dies.

Some 25 years later, a supermodel soldier, Rhona Mitra, is dispatched to Glasgow to find out if there might be a cure. She has a glass eyeball, which she plucks out to look around corners. Her guerrilla team of loyal toughs discover that Scotland has been taken over by a tribe of cannibal Goths who have beaten the virus and will stop at nothing to get over Hadrian’s Wall, apart, perhaps, from a secondhand record shop.

Malcolm McDowell is a mad knight who has the chemical formula to save the world. Will he part with it? Not without slicing off a few heads.

18, 108mins

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