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Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, and Johnathon Schaech star in this remake of Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's successful, Spanish-language horror film [REC], which follows a television reporter and... read more read more... her cameraman as they fall under a mysterious quarantine issued on an inner-city apartment building. Television reporter Angela Vidal (Carpenter) and her trusty cameraman (Steve Harris) were documenting a night in the life of a Los Angeles fire station crew when the firefighters were summoned to a nearby apartment building to answer a routine 911 call. Upon arriving at the scene, Angela and company discover that police have already arrived to investigate the blood-curdling screams ringing out from one of the apartments. One of the women living in the building has been infected with something terrible, but what? When a few of the other residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape and discover that the CDC has quarantined the building. The officials in charge won't relay any information to those trapped inside the building, and it's impossible to seek information from the outside since telephone, Internet, television, and cell-phone access have all been cut off. By the time the quarantine is lifted, the intrepid cameraman's chilling footage provides the only evidence of the horrors that unfolded on that terrible night. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 29 min.

Directed by: John Erick Dowdle

Release Date: October 10, 2008

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  • jmanard52
    September 6, 2009
    jmanard52
    Predictable but not bad. I really dont have much more to add.
  • TheDudeLebowski65
    March 20, 2012
    TheDudeLebowski65
    Mediocre remake of Rec, which is far superior in every way, Quarantine is a poorly constructed film that uses everything from the original film to create its terror. Like every other horror fan, I have a love / hate relationship with remakes. Some are good, some not so good. Some... read more lack anything that would it interesting viewing, others are pretty good even though they're not all that memorable. With Quarantine we have a remake that just doesn't deliver. The cast aren't that great, many deliver mundane performances, especially Jennifer Carpenter, who unlike her role in Dexter, doesn't do anything interesting with her character. This is yet another pointless remake to a great film. Hell, that sentence seems to be used a lot to describe remakes, but it is very true. Rec was a stunning found footage film, a great piece of horror that brought genuine chills to a franchise obsessed with remaking everything. Quarantine is a mediocre remake at best, the film is a bit entertaining, but as a fan of Rec, I don't think that this film stands out and doesn't deliver the thrills that the original gave its viewers. Quarantine is a film to watch only if you're totally bored. If you want the total effect of a memorable and watchable horror film, then give Rec a view. If you're looking for genuine scares watching this remake, you may be disappointed as the script suffers from the usual jump scares cliché, and in the end it doesn't make Quarantine a worthy film to watch. Add to that a mediocre cast, and you've got another forgettable remake on your hands. Watch Rec instead.
  • fb1463751009
    March 10, 2012
    fb1463751009
    This movie is only good if you have your sound system cranked up with dim lights. Watched it in the movie theaters and scared the crap out of me... watch it at home, not so much. But still, it's a B-movie. Too bad they spoil the ending. I'll leave it up to you to figure out how.
  • LoughnerWasLucid
    December 5, 2011
    LoughnerWasLucid
    Jennifer Capenter stars as "reporter who refuses to let her camera man stop recording unless there is violence involving dogs." Steve Harris is "camera man who is so obsessed with protecting the sound of his precious film that he doesn't let out one single 'hale mudda fuggin naww... read morew!'" Jay Hernandez is "fire fighter who seems like a real badass stud while the crew is at the firehouse but then just kinda sits in the back of the apartment building once people start spitting out their gallbladders." Greg Germann is "veterinarian who knows more about rabies than any doctor knows about AIDS." Andrew Fiscella is "man who says 'fuck you guys' alot and doesn't trust people who are pretty trustworthy." Marin Hinkle is "loving mother who gets her left cheek chewed off by infected daughter and amazingly does not want to shatter her entire skeleton with a fire extinguisher." and Joey King is "little girl who shows record breaking stupidity by witnessing people experiencing the exact same symptoms as herself and yet never gets the idea to bash her own head open with a fire extinguisher."
  • spielberg00
    October 11, 2011
    spielberg00
    An American remake of the 2007 Spanish cult-horror film [REC], this film isn't much new. Especially if you are a horror fan.

    QUARANTINE takes the "found footage" sub-genre (the informal name used to describe movies filmed without professional equipment and camerawork in order t... read moreo make the horror seem more realistic, such as in PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT), and it grotesque-ifies it, leaving little fluid to the imagination of the viewer. It's like if in the last scene of the first PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, Katie had shouted, "Micah! Get the camera! Bring it down! Zoom in! Let them all see the demon bloody me up!", rather than making it eerier by just leaving it off-camera.

    In my opinion, showing the blood and all totally destroys the "found footage" sub-genre. Why? It's now been officially established that the two main points for the sub-genre are two a) enhance the realism, and b) imply 90% of all the stuff that isn't left to imagine in SAW. Think of it: SAW isn't a scary movie. It aims to gross out, not to frighten. But the goal of this film clearly was to frighten, and only fulfilling one of the two points of "found footage", keeps at least ten-thousand more people from staying awake a whole night. This wasn't a bad film; it just had so much potential to be ridiculously disturbing.
  • murphmann93
    June 24, 2011
    murphmann93
    I switched off watching it. It wasn't that great and you're too busy focusing on the subtitles!
  • helpahorse
    August 15, 2010
    helpahorse
    Unfortunately, this movie was worse than what I had anticipated. It kind of ruins the entire movie when the ending is in the trailer, (girl gets dragged away from the camera). It could've been a frightening scene in the movie, but since I watched the trailer, as soon as I saw tha... read moret part, I already knew what was about to go down. It wasn't very clever thinking whoever made the trailer.

    The acting annoyed me the most. Especially the girl reporter who couldn't get her ass together and kept whining throughout the entire movie. I don't think I've ever seen a more whiny brat. It just sucks *SPOILER* she didn't die until the very end. Then maybe I would've been able to enjoy Jay Hernandez more.

    It also annoyed me when Hernandez started kicking ass, and the reporter didn't help. It's really insulting to make a character so worthless and obnoxious. It makes girls everywhere look bad.

    Then the shaky camera was really sickening. I never liked that in any movies- Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity- it just doesn't work for me.

    The movie starts out slow and once the action kicks in, it just makes it more frustrating to watch.
  • dreamfaeries
    July 12, 2010
    dreamfaeries
    It was alright. Nothing too spectacular or frightening. But can I just point out one thing... Jay Hernandez = YUM!
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    July 1, 2010
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    B+
  • yona71
    May 9, 2010
    yona71
    An intense, somewhat apocalyptic thriller regarding a television reporter(Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman who are assigned to spend a night shift with a Los Angeles fire department. As the fire squad is being documented, a routine 911 call brings them to a stricken small ap... read moreartment building which soon after becomes quarantined due to an unknown virus, and the subsequent feeling of doom for the quarantined individuals.
    This film is a remake of the film "Rec", and I'm not one for remakes. Therefore, my review of this little film only delves into this director's interpretation of a film which is supposedly superior in every way. I just have yet to see "Rec", so this review is by no means a comparison.
    I do have to give props to Jennifer Carpenter for her believable performance as a devastated reporter amidst an area of chaos, and there are some chilling shots here and there that kept me watching. The film is shot in a way reminiscent of "The Blair Witch Project", so it gives you an uneven, realistic feeling of not knowing what horror lays ahead, or behind for that matter.

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Tony Wong
October 13, 2008
Tony Wong, Toronto Star

Quarantine is based on the 2007 Spanish thriller [REC]. Like any imitation, the quality's not as good, but this is about cheap thrills, of which there are not enough. Full Review

Liam Lacey
October 13, 2008
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Give Quarantine credit: Without resorting to computer-generated monsters or supernatural explanations, it uses consistent logic and confinement to find new ways of being scary. Full Review

Jeannette Catsoulis
October 13, 2008
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

Quarantine, yet another pseudo-documentary horror movie, delivers the heebie-jeebies with solid acting and perfectly calibrated shocks. Full Review

Michael Hardy
October 13, 2008
Michael Hardy, Boston Globe

I have seen many execrable films -- Plan 9 From Outer Space, Disaster Movie, Batman & Robin -- but never has a movie made me so physically ill. Full Review

James Berardinelli
October 10, 2008
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

Quarantine fails to correct some of the problems evident in its predecessor while also incorporating a few defects of its own. Full Review

Roger Moore
October 10, 2008
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

No, the script isn't anything special and the novelty long ago wore off in this style of movie making. But the execution in this film from John Erick Dowdle is amazing, the camera work and cutting per... Full Review

Joe Leydon
October 10, 2008
Joe Leydon, Variety

Quarantine is a modestly inventive, sporadically exciting thriller that nonetheless proves too faithful to its central conceit for its own good. Full Review

Frank Scheck
October 10, 2008
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

This derivative horror flick can be confined along with its numerous inspirations.

Clark Collis
October 10, 2008
Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly

Quarantine director John Erick Dowdle and co-writing brother Drew wisely stick close to the told-from-the-cameraman's point-of-view template of the terrific original. Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
April 26, 2010
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The best thing about this cheesy rip-off mockumentary-styled horror pic is that I didn't catch its virus or vomit after following its shaky developments. Full Review

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