Dec 11, 2008
actually,this is a review (Dec 11, 2008 8:00 am)
Quarantine(2008) Directed by John Erick Dowdle
Casts:
- Jennifer Carpenter as Angela Vidal
- Steve Harris as Scott Percival
- Jay Hernandez as Jake
- Johnathon Schaech as George Fletcher
- Columbus Short as Danny Wilensky
- Rade Serbedzija as Yuri Ivanov
- Greg Germann as Laurence
- Bernard White as Bernard
- Dania Ramirez as Sadie
- Marin Hinkle as Kathy
- Joey King as Briana
- Denis O'Hare as Randy
- Jeannie Epper as Mrs. Espinoza
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You know the drill by now. Hollywood buys the rights to a viscerally terrifying foreign horror flick then bowdlerises the life out of it. So it’s pleasing to report that Quarantine, a redux of Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s Spanish shocker [REC], is actually rather good – although, frankly, it would have taken a special kind of idiot to screw this one up. Despite tweaking the format, Quarantine successfully replicates the claustrophobic tension of [REC] and cranks up the sudden eruptions of frenzied violence, making it as much of a white-knuckle terror ride as it was the first time around. The first half an hour is almost a carbon copy of REC. The same slow start in the fire station as reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman Scott cover an initially quiet night shift, the same claustrophobic old building where residents have been infected by a bloodlust and the same singular viewpoint from Scott’s chaotic handheld camera. If you didn’t catch REC fever first time round, let yourself get bitten by Quarantine. Such brilliance is an isolated incident in modern scary movies.
Wired
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LilianaH
Dec 20, 2008 6:55 pm
Is it a horror movie? I love horror movie the most!!