Quarantine (2008)

• Year: 2008
• Released: 10 Oct 2008
• Country: United States, Spain
• Adwords: 6 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1082868/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Quarantine
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/quarantine
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Runtime: 89 min
• Writer: John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle, Jaume Balagueró
• Director: John Erick Dowdle
• Cast: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Columbus Short
• Keywords: remake, found footage, virus, quarantine, tv reporter,

	5.9/10
	53/100

Quarantine Storyline

A television reporter and her cameraman are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles fire crew. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartments. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to leave with the news crew, only to find the building has quarantined. All communication in and it is stopped; the only evidence of what took place is the news crew’s videotape.

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Quarantine Movie Reviews

Booo this movie

Seriously I’m sick of this genre of movies. Shaky videos found in the aftermath of a horrible situation…enough already. This probably won’t be the best review you read for this movie, but for an avid horror movie enthusiast watching with eyes wide open…this movie was just…bad.

Simple plot summary. A reality show that features late night careers is showcasing a fire station. They eventually get a call to a complex with an undisclosed issue. When they enter they encounter a strange old women standing there with blood and spit hanging from her mouth and she’s growling. Now for the plot…get together a group of people with absolutely no survival or social skills who all happen to be mentally handicapped. Next lock them all into a complex with each other. Mix in a very unintimidating zombie wannabe virus and let them all run around with their arms flailing about. That’s this movie.

I’m sorry, but this movie was just…stupid and ridiculous. The story is actually really good (I hear it is based of some other movie that I’ve never watched, but whatever) and could have been executed soooo much better. The acting wasn’t really bad, just completely without direction. The gore was there, but the camera was so damn shaky you could never focus on any of the action. The way the people reacted and the ending was just so pathetic it’s unbelievable.

-SPOILER- Really, if I’m trapped in a complex with some weird virus that turns people into violent monsters…I would not gather together in a lobby. I would gather the uninfected and secure myself behind one of the very thick well locked doors that the complex offers and wait it out. I would definitely not: Try and gather the infected into my arms, put my head near the infected persons face, lock myself in a room with the infected, run after the infected when they go crazy, eat someone, and take off. These people basically offer themselves up on a platter in this movie and it’s just pathetic to watch. The end of the movie is so sudden that the audience actually groaned and stomped out of the theater.

DO NOT PAY TO SEE THIS MOVIE, it is an OK rent or download but to pay $10 to see it is ridiculous. This movie is more of a 2 but I’m voting a 1 to help offset the idiots who vote this a 8+.

Souped Up Rabies

Quarantine is a remake of the 2007 Spanish picture REC where a news reporter and her cameraman find themselves tagging along on a rescue call with some police as ride alongs and get quite a bit more a story than they bargain for.

Seems like some nasty experiments which speed up the rabies disease have gotten out of the laboratory. It’s that distress call that Jennifer Carpenter and Steve Harris are answering. When they get in there, they can’t get out and neither can any of the residents. They’ve been quarantined by the CDC.

Louis Pasteur would not have known what to do here. Instead of incubating for months, symptoms develop within minutes upon contact. Imagine dogs going mad, and humans turning into mad dogs. It’s all one bloody mess and all filmed in the first person with Steve Harris’s camera.

In the cast is one of my favorite young actors, Jay Hernandez who I hoped would be getting better stuff than this by now. He was in both Hostel movies and came to a grisly end in the second. I do so hope he gets some better parts.

Who knows what things people are cooking up in their homes.

Horrible remake

A very poor, shot-for-shot remake of the superlative Spanish horror flick REC. Despite my fondness for the ‘found footage’ sub-genre, QUARANTINE is every bit the patience-tester and although it features exactly the same story and action of the Spanish original, it fails in every respect. For one, it’s too dark and the camera work is too shaky, meaning that much of the zombie action is impossible to make out. REC was just as dark and also shot on hand-held cameras, yet you could make out every single shot thanks to the time and effort having gone into its undertaking.

The cast is also very poor with the actors lacking the naturalism of their Spanish counterparts. I recognised Jay Hernandez from HOSTEL, but he seems uncomfortable with the format and unsure of himself – and it’s not just his character, either. The lead, Jennifer Carpenter (THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE) is horrible and encouraged to screech, scream, shout and hyperventilate for almost all of the latter half of the movie, making her one of the most infuriating leads in a horror film ever. Inevitably, the gore and disgust factor is unnecessarily upped – these zombies are more gooey and have legs that break off – yet the genuine power of the original is nowhere to be found.