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Summary: Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. 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 apartment units.
Pretty much a horror-by-numbers, but they are decent numbers. The scary monsters are as a rule kept to quick flashes through the Blair witch/Paranormal Activity style trick of hand-held camera work. This is largely effective, although plot is signposted well in advance. The lead female is *incredibly* annoying by the end, but the tension is kept to at least the standard minimum, and the baddies, stolen shamelessly from 28 days later, generally fulfill their role sufficiently.
Another POV horror flick in the same vein as Cloverfield (though Quarantine is actually a remake of Spanish film [REC]). 90 minutes of shaky cam and hysterical screaming as people try not to get torn apart by the infected freaks. 100% predictable the whole way, and not that scary. I laughed out loud at a whole bunch of stuff that probably wasn't intended to be funny. A decent flick, but totally formulaic and forgettable.
I am a big fan of Horro movies that DO NOT have a happy ending. The shrieking was annoying of course, but she was having panic attack after panic attack, so you can't blame her. I love how the big questions are never answered, as it leaves this open for a Sequel!
A perfect example as to why Hollywood needs to stay away from foreign horror films. Quarantine is remake of the superb Spanish film, [REC] yet for some reason, every aspect that made the original good is removed here and in its place, is something that only makes this film even more empty. It's a hollow film that attempts to pointlessly recreate one of the best horror movies to come around in a while. Dowdle really needs to stop making movies if the best he's got is this and Devil.
There is some genuinely good shaky-cam here, good acting from many performers and a very strong first 30 minutes. However the film never really advances from jump scares and just kind of meanders for the rest of the runtime, all the way to a rather lackluster ending.
Not really a shot-for-shot remake of [Rec] (with lesser acting), Quarantine's writers apparently decided to quite drastically "facelift" the script in a manner suited for American audiences: scene after scene, everything that was tasteful in the Spanish film is deliberately crapified, everything that was realistic is now contrived, and all the mystery is dispelled.
A pretty shitty horror film. The premise is good, but toward the end of the film the "lost footage" camera shit starts hurting your eyes. Not to mention that the lead chick is about the worst person you'd want to watch in a crisis situation. I hear the original Spanish film, Rec, is actually quite good, so pass on this and watch that instead. I wish I had.
As frantic, sharp and visceral as its Spanish alternative, this [REC] redux nonetheless suffers comparisons, featuring some lesser performances and some ill-fated plot choices that nonetheless don't drastically diminish its shake-inducing credibility.
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