Doomsday is out on DVD today so what better time to celebrate the way it shamelessly ‘homages’ around a million other cult flicks?

But we don’t have space for a million, so here’s seven for you to spot…

7. Escape From New York

Even if you were wearing two eye-patches when you went to see Doomsday at the flicks, you’ll have spotted the numerous nods to John Carpenter’s seminal Escape From New York.

From the high-concept (which simply replaces a wall around New York with a wall around Scotland), to the synth-based riffs on the soundtrack, the computer map effects which look like they were coded on an Amstrad, and the eye-patch wearing lead...

Doomsday’s arguably a better Escape From New York sequel than Escape From LA.

6. The Shawshank Redemption

We’re not sure if the sly reference to Morgan Freeman's 'same shit, different day' line from Shawshank was deliberate, but listen out for the way Doomsday's prisoner plays on it.

5. The Last Boy Scout

It seems Neil Marshall watched a stack of Bruce Willis flicks before he scripted Doomsday – either that or the nod (or should that be head butt?) to the cigarette scene in The Last Boy Scout was purely incidental.

4. 28 Days Later

Doomsday’s plague infected residents run around like rage-filled loons, attacking strangers and puking blood to pass on their disease. 28 Days Later’s Infected run around like rage-filled loons, attacking strangers and puking blood to pass on their disease. Do you think they’ve ever met?

3. Aliens

Early on in Doomsday a gang of body-suited unisex grunts carrying massive guns clamber into an all-terrain vehicle which looks like something GI Joe would play with. We took one look at it and half-expected to find an alien hanging off it. What we didn’t expect was for it to be held up by a herd of cows.

2. The Lord Of The Rings

More of an aesthetic nod this one – when our heroes hit the medieval section of our flick, the camera suddenly gets chucked in the air to start making sweeping pans like it’s being psychically controlled by Peter Jackson.

1. Mad Max 2
But before they get to that bit, the Doomsday crew have to contend with a bunch of extras from Mad Max 2 invading the set, complete with Mohawks, clothes that look like they’ve been stolen from the corpses of quarterbacks, and a garage full of vehicles that look like they’ve been pimped by Leatherface.

The less said about their penchant for Duran Duran Wild Boys video style party scene, the better...