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Looks good an entertaining, like the camera style.

Wow. It's Cloverfield with better camera quality.

Originally posted by Blax_Hydralisk
Wow. It's Cloverfield with better camera quality.

UH...ok...except it's nothing like it of course...in style...or plot...or anything for that matter

Er no, it's a REMAKE of a horror film that has just come out in cinemas, here anyway, called

Ugh. At least leave it until the original has been shown around the world...

The remake looks shit.

Originally posted by MildPossession
Er no, it's a REMAKE of a horror film that has just come out in cinemas, here anyway, called

Ugh. At least leave it until the original has been shown around the world...

The remake looks shit.


QFT

Originally posted by jaden101
UH...ok...except it's nothing like it of course...in style...or plot...or anything for that matter

It was a joke in reference to the shaky camera viewpoint in the trailer.

Thanks, though.

shaky cameras = dizziness

im not interested in that crappy remake

It was not so good. basically its the same plot as most zombie horror movies ive seen, and the people arent even supposed to be zombies but thats just what they ended up reminding me of. there is little suspense and they even tell you how its going to end in all the previews. basically it is a 2 hour waste of time.

This movie was pretty bad. Not really impressive at all.

Forever - Did you know this is a remake of a Spanish film?

Go to the topic. That's the original film, with suspense and an amazing ending that unfortunately you know now since you have seen the remake...

I quite let myself go with this film.

I have no complains. In fact I think it was far more fun than Cloverfield or Blair Witch Project. There were some real good scenes of suspense and then there were the scenes that really makes you ask WTF?

I like how they time everything in this film. From getting to know the firemen to getting inside the building. It did feel like a reality tv show (which I think that was idea) gone wrong. There were two scenes which made me quite disturbed.

The fireman falling from the floor above and landing on his head....I was like...Oww! That was nasty.

Another really good scene was...

...when the little girl attack the mom...then she runs up the stairs...and the mother gets hysterical and fights back to defend her daughter. The cop handcuffs her and she still fights...that was emotional and rather sad.

One thing about the film that made it so good is the explanation at the ending. You just gotta love those sick....

..Doomsday cults that want to end humanity.. who live in old apartment houses. These kind of people do exist, and because they have pathetic loser lives, and are force to live in shit holes they do what they do, and that is make everyone suffer.

How do I know? I live in an apartment house in Los Angeles...haha! didn't see that one coming...








Anywhoo, Quarantine feels very real....it's film in a real way. Of course they have to add the killing monsters for the action. But story wise...I'd go for it.

4 out of 5 from me.

Haven't been this much disturbed by a movie since the remake of The Hills Have Eyes.

(I think Remakes are finally evolving....)

One thing I didn't like is towards the end it started to seem almost like a haunted house at Knotts Berry Farm or something. Things just kinda popping out at the camera and going "boo", more or less.

I did like the beginning though, the setup was very good.

Best part was when the camera man killed one of the creatures with his camera and when he stepped on a rat.

I haven't seen yet but I won't be watching an American remake of a top rated horror film.

Anybody seen both versions? If so, How does the remake compare to the original?

Inferior, can tell you that without seeing the remake

Ha ha. Nice reviewer.

There's nothing broad to be found in "Quarantine" that directly separates it from "Rec." Director John Erick Dowdle (of the unreleasable "The Poughkeepsie Tapes" crafts a straightforward copy of the Spanish film, preserving the same plot and scare beats, but altering the corners of the writing to put his fat stamp on the picture. To Americanize "Rec," "Quarantine" introduces crude sexual tension between Angela and the firemen, and turns our camera-ready hostess from a frustrated lifestyle reporter to a veritable sorority pledge, with Dowdle encouraging Carpenter to play daft instead of confident, ultimately reducing Angela's role in the overall scheme of things.



The changes are minor, but they do add up, wandering away from "Rec" in all the wrong ways. The original film spent some time with the characters, "Quarantine" quickly sets up the humans as zombie food, with little development beyond differing puncture wounds. "Rec" was a multi-layered visual piece of broadcasting verisimilitude, resembling a chaotic news explosion; the remake retains an unacceptable glossy look, highlighting the already recognizable cast as humdrum actors, not frantic citizens trapped in Hell. Also, while "Rec" didn't win any awards for steady cinematography, director Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza composed carefully for maximum suspense and exposition. Dowdle just throws his camera around arbitrarily, with huge sections of the film lost to inane handheld blur and iffy technical believability. In other words, "Rec" invited the viewer to get lost in the terror. "Quarantine" can't stop reminding everyone that it's just a dopey movie.



Reviewing "Quarantine" on its own merits is a difficult challenge, since "Rec" is as close to perfection as fright films get these days. To the uninitiated, the remake will be easy enough to swallow, with plenty of cheap boo scares and hysterical Carpenter overacting to justify the price of admission. For "Rec" fans, there's no reason to return to this story, since Hollywood has drained the tension away, replacing Spanish innovation with American stupidity.

my cousin and a friend went to go see it and they said it was real good and that there was a lot of blood

I thought it was a good movie, even the ending was alright.

The film opens with reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman Scott Percival (Steve Harris) doing a report on the night shift of a Los Angeles fire station. Angela and Scott are introduced to firefighters Fletcher (Johnathon Schaech) and Jake (Jay Hernandez), whom they will be following for the evening.

A medical emergency at an apartment complex is reported and the night shift is sent in. Yuri (Rade Serbedzija), the building manager, explains that a woman has been screaming, but is now silent. They are joined by two police officers, James (Andrew Fiscella) and Danny (Columbus Short), in the lobby. They are led to the apartment of Mrs. Espinoza (Jeannie Epper), the source of the screaming. Yuri unlocks the door when she does not answer, and a dog runs out. Within the apartment, Espinoza is struggling to breathe, covered in blood, and foaming at the mouth. She bites James in the neck, severely wounding him, before being subdued by Fletcher. The others take James downstairs to get medical assistance, but find the building sealed shut by the authorities. Fletcher falls from the top floor, bitten, breaking his leg. Lawrence (Greg Germann), a veterinarian, tends to the injured men.

Danny and Jake go upstairs to subdue Espinoza, where they find the cleaning lady dead in her apartment. Danny shoots Espinoza when she charges at them. They all return to the lobby, meeting Sadie (Dania Ramirez) on the way. By this time, all exterior windows and doors are being sealed, and cell phones are being jammed. Anyone who attempts to leave is forced back at gunpoint. Jake believes they are being quarantined due to a nuclear, biological, or chemical emergency. Danny and Jake round up the tenants and bring them to the lobby, including Elise (Stacy Chbosky), who is displaying the same symptoms as Espinoza.

While Fletcher, James, and Elise are treated by Lawrence, Angela begins interviewing tenants. One little girl, Briana (Joey King), is sick. Briana claims that she has a dog named Max who was sick and taken to an animal hospital. Lawrence states that the symptoms of those infected are similar to rabies, only much more fast-acting.

Downstairs, Fletcher shambles into the lobby on his severely broken leg, but Danny injects him with a sedative, while Angela and Scott notice Bernard and Sadie sneaking away, looking for a TV to try to discover what is happening outside. Espinoza's infected dog appears and attacks one of the tenants. They reach Bernard's apartment and turn on the news, where the chief of police claims that everyone has been evacuated from the building, just before the power is shut off. The group is then attacked by Elise, whom Scott kills with his camera.

Danny rounds everyone up in the textile shop and states that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agents are coming in to give blood tests. The residents are also told that anyone who is not infected will be released. Lawrence points out that the only way to test for rabies is through a brain sample, not a blood test, but Danny insists on following procedure. After a roll call, Yuri reveals that the penthouse apartment of the building is being rented by a man from Boston who is absent.

The CDC agents arrive and examine the infected victims, taking a brain sample from Fletcher. Fletcher breaks his restraints and attacks one of the agents. Danny, Jake, and the other agent escape, leaving Lawrence locked in the room with the infected. Lawrence gets infected, the textile shop is locked and the surviving CDC agent is forced to explain the situation: Briana's dog was brought to a vet with an unknown illness and infected all the animals there. The dog was traced back to the apartment building; Briana's fever is then called into question, and she bites her mother before running upstairs. Briana's mother, who is now hysterical, is handcuffed to the stairwell.

Danny is bitten by Briana, and many of the survivors downstairs are bitten as well. The survivors lock themselves in an upstairs room. The surviving CDC agent has been bitten and runs away to keep from infecting the others. He is locked in an adjacent room while the others try to figure out what to do. Sadie is also bitten but Bernard pleads with the others not to kill her. Bernard cuts through a window seal to call for help, but is killed by a sniper. Yuri reveals that they can escape through a basement passage into the sewers; however, the keys are in his apartment. He is then killed by the infected CDC agent. His wife is then killed by Sadie, who has succumbed to the infection.

Angela, Scott, and Jake make their way to Yuri's apartment to get his keys, avoiding and killing several infected while doing so. Jake is bitten along the way, and the infected Danny chase Angela and Scott into the penthouse apartment. Within, they find newspapers with articles related to a doomsday cult. They discover that the man from Boston, who was renting the penthouse, was a member of it. One of the articles tells how the cult broke into a military biological facility to steal the virus. A noise from the attic prompts Scott to investigate, and he finds an infected boy. The boy destroys the light on Scott's camera, so he turns on the night vision. Angela and Scott then see an emaciated man (Doug Jones) emerge from another room. He walks past them initially but attacks Scott when Angela inadvertently makes a noise. Angela watches through the night vision of the camera as the infected man eats Scott. The man then attacks her, causing her to drop the camera. The final shot is of Angela crawling back to the camera only to be dragged into the darkness, screaming.

Anybody else seen this?

...Why did you just post the entire plot of the movie?

But yeah, it was nothing special.

Yeah? I mean, not even spoiler tags? or a warning?

I saw it, I thought it was better than generally released horror. I think the best part was the last ten minutes. I haven't seen the original though, which apparently handled the back story much better. Jennifer Carpenter did really well again too, but not like in 'Emily Rose'.

Wow... all this for that movie?

I saw this.

Not that good though

Damn it Wil, you spoiled the entire movie! *cocks shotgun*

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=482698&highlight=quarantine+forumid%3A58

Thread in the horror section about this film. Nowhere near as good as the original for those of you who don't know. Strange to see and original and the American remake both come out within months of each other though.

The difference between the two in terms of effectiveness is that the original's camera work was deliberate. Despite all the shaking etc, you still got to see exactly what the director wanted you to see. The remake is just random and pointless and you miss a lot of the action because of it. The panic from the characters in the original is also more believable and less annoying.

I liked the movie actually, and sorry, I forgot the spoiler tag, my bad.

I enjoyed the movie allot...i thought it was pretty good

nice sig

The spines on its um spine/tail, look like crystals, I like that.

I actually liked Quarantine better than .REC (the original).

Is that because you didn't need to read subtitles...

i liked the first half of Quarantine a lot. Somewhere a long the line everyone got very stupid, though. I know you are going to have stupid moments in horror movies. Whether thats due to shotty writing or what ever , i believe some of the decisions the characters made in, quarantine hurt the movie. I enjoyed the characters and thought the acting was very convincing for the most part but the movie definitely fell apart towards the end for me. I still dig it, though. I think Rec is the superior movie but i too, prefer Quarantine.

Although, i think i prefer Quarantine because it had a more stable camera. I'm never one to complain about shakey cams in movies but, Rec got to me a little bit. However, i'm still not sure if i was nauseated from the shakey camera or just overly tense from the constant anticipation...,Maybe both, hmm :/

Rec had a far better setting, too.

I get motion sickness easily(even from driving in certain makes of car) and I wasn't affected by REC at all.

Yeah, you know...,i NEVER get sick from shakey cams. So, i'm thinking that it was the crafting which made me feel nauseated. You know, Claustrophobia is a better description for what i'm trying to convey. Hmmm, i need to watch Rec again. Maybe it is more brilliant than i had realized...,
Quarantine felt more safe. If the people didn't get a case of dumbassness they could have easily gotten out of that situation alive.

Originally posted by MildPossession
Is that because you didn't need to read subtitles...
lol no i read subtitles all the time. I'm a huge Korean horror film fan :-P

Well then you both suck

Originally posted by LDHZenkai
lol no i read subtitles all the time. I'm a huge Korean horror film fan :-P

Natural city

was one big bore from what I remember, and not a horror film

well, i liked it sadwalk and it's Korean

I love Korean films too! just not Natural City. I have it sitting on my shelf though, the front cover is pretty.

Originally posted by MildPossession
I love Korean films too! just not Natural City. I have it sitting on my shelf though, the front cover is pretty.

You don't like Natural City?

What kind of being are you....

Talk about Quarantine! OFF TOPIC OFF TOPIC, stop bullying me.

Love the movie

It was an okay movie i thought the end was probably the best

It's better in the original. see the guy(Javier Botet) in real life who plays that girl in the locked room The two characters in that scene didn't know they were going to see that 'creature'

The guy's website: http://javierbotet.blogspot.com/

Don't look if you haven't seen REC yet.

This movie was ****ing garbage.

There is an official Quarantine sequel on the way, it's in pre-production now and it's going to be 'an original' sequel to the remake, not a remake of 2. The Spanish sequel is out later in the year in Spain, can't wait.

This movie was a good add-on to the Zombie collection. It's not better than the 70s Dawn of the Dead, but better than other movies that have benn put out in the industry

i thought the movie was horrible.