Devil's Playground (Mark McQueen, 2010)

It's not the rage virus, it's the result of an experimental 'performance enhancer' called RAK-295. The quasi-zombies don't just sprint, they do parkour too, and there's a woman whose unique immunity to the lurgy means the authorities want to get their mitts on her (see Children of Men). So, it's clearly not a carbon copy of 28 Days Later. It is a depressingly shameless downmarket knock-off, though. There clearly weren't the funds for the trademark setpieces of 28 Days utilising picture postcard locations cleared of life for shock effect, so it's mostly scrabbling around at night. The budgetary shortage extends to the soundtrack too, which is genre-generic, and the cast, with Danny Dyer in for Cillian Murphy. It's the absence of invention and even suspense which is really unforgivable, though. After all, ideas cost nothing.

3/10