And I don’t mean the kind you hitch to your car (although that could be pretty cool).

No, this is the theatrical trailer for Neil Marshall’s new film “Doomsday”. Marshall’s previous credits are “Dog Soldiers” and “The Descent”

The story goes that in 2008 a plague spreads rapidly in Scotland; to save the world, Scotland is quarantined and basically written off as dead; forgotten about. 25 years later the plague reappears outside of Scotland. Because we know that there are survivors in there, Bob Hoskins sends Rhona Mitra in it find the cure (isn’t that what you’d do?) and return with it. In the process she finds Malcolm McDowell playing (what else?) an evil genius who’s holed up in a Scottish castle taking a Colonel Kurtz-like turn.

Now if Malcom McDowell showed up in the film bald and weighing 300 pounds, I would eat my shorts. However, I know from the trailer that this isn’t the case.

The trailer looks unfortunately more like
“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” than it does “Apocalypse Now”. You can check out for yourself the trailer at Yahoo.

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