FOUR friends are driving through the desert on the way to the beach, but things are not what they seem – they re not on holiday, they re trying to outrun the end of the world. No one is safe from the viral pandemic threatening to wipe out the human race.

FOUR friends are driving through the desert on the way to the beach, but things are not what they seem - they're not on holiday, they're trying to outrun the end of the world.

No one is safe from the viral pandemic threatening to wipe out the human race.

Determined to elude the deadly virus, Danny, his brother Brian, his girlfriend Bobby and Danny's school friend Kate are hoping to reach a place of safety.

Encouraged by a childhood memory, Danny has convinced the group that a secluded surfer beach in the Gulf of Mexico is their best bet. Once there, they can live peacefully and wait out the end of the virus to emerge into a new day as survivors of this apocalyptic disease.

The rules of their new world order are simple - take obscure roads and avoid contact with other humans at any cost.

Yet their carefree attitudes start to wither the longer they travel, their childhood innocence slowly eroding amidst the remains of empty highways and towns, as they face battles with equally self-protective survivors or the infected reaching out in a hopeless bid for help.

Chris Pine and Piper Perabo star in horror, CARRIERS (15).

Film maker brothers Alex and David Pastor say they were inspired by stories about bird flu. Alex says: "It was something really, really scary, but we didn't want to just make a movie about a bird flu.