An oil rig . Communication with the mainland us cut auddenly . Your coworkers start to turn . There ' s some order at first since there are only a few cases , and they ' ve been isolated . As more and more people turn for no apparent reason , some become restless they insist on trying to kill those afflicted . Others authority attempt to keep the peace , but panic and fear win over . Those rebelling open up wherever the infected are being kept , expecting only lethargic resistance and corpses . What they find are ravenous and beyond what they can handle . Many of the rebels die while others flee the outbreak . The story could then possibly focus on a person or small group that has several tricky options in front of them . They could attempt to contact somebody under the assumption that the infection of local to the rig and the rest of the world isn ' t in chaos . They could try to unify those that are not yet infected to wipe out those that are , still leaving the issue that they are stranded on the rig . They could try to escape the rig by creating some sort of vehicle off . There ' s a lot of potential .