Director of Post-Apocalyptic Thriller Doomsday Launches Behind the Scenes Production Blog

Who doesn't love a good ol' shiver-inducing post-apocalyptic thriller?

Director Neil Marshall, who helmed one of last year's underground (pun intended!) horror hits, the nightmarishly claustrophobic film The Descent, apparently took elements from The Warriors, 28 Days Later and Mad Max to pen his highly anticipated upcoming film*Doomsday. *

For bonus dystopia points, the film also stars Clockwork Orange's Malcolm McDowell.

Doomsday deals with a viral outbreak called the Reaper that wipes out Scotland's population, causing the country to be quarantined from the rest of the world. Thirty years later, the virus crops up in a new country, an elite group of survivors is dispatched to battle their way to a cure.

Director Marshall recently launched a MySpace blog to* *shares tidbits from the set:

"I wanted to crash and roll a 10 ton armoured transport ...it worked spectacularly!
We exploded countless pyro's in the centre of Cape Town, in the middle of the night ... We took over a major theme park, dressed it as the villains lair ... filled it with a thousand screaming extras, waving baseball bats, hanging from the rafters and generally baying for blood."

Rad. The film is slated to release later this year.

[via ComingSoon]