When the month's horror options boil down to a modestly clever exercise like this or yet another Saw sequel, you know you could do worse.
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10/13/08
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Quarantine (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 20
Rotten:13
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Johnathon Schaech, Columbus Short
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Reviews for Quarantine
Quarantine feels awfully familiar, and it grows less convincing with each passing moment. At its worst, it abandons realism entirely and flirts with gory kitsch.
10/13/08
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.
10/13/08
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.
10/13/08
Quarantine, yet another pseudo-documentary horror movie, delivers the heebie-jeebies with solid acting and perfectly calibrated shocks.
10/13/08
Top Critic 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.
10/13/08
Quarantine is the type of movie that is made to see in a theatre. The film is brutally realistic and shot in such a way that you feel like you are watching real footage.
10/12/08
This isn't as good as CLOVERFIELD, but it does a pretty decent job at generating some thrills. Unfortunately, the movie is ruined by Carpenter's distractingly awful performance.
10/12/08
Underdeveloped and predictable, there is little compelling about the film other than the premise and a few of the kills.
10/11/08
In some ways 'Quarantine' is better than 'Rec,' not only xeroxing all its shocks but managing to add more.
10/11/08
Grows increasingly repetitious and tedious as the same cinematic tricks are played over and over...the effect is suffocating rather than enjoyably spooky.
10/11/08
The original Spanish thriller (REC) is no doubt better acted and executed, but considering the bad "prestige" movies recently it's hard to understand why Screen Gems decided not to press screen the cheap, quicky horror flick that delivers the basic goods
10/11/08
Disregarding its Xeroxed pedigree, it's easily one of the best American horror films of the year.
10/10/08
If a remake must be made in lieu of original thoughts and ideas, one could do far, far worse. Quarantine is the real deal--a primal, uncompromising vision of insanity run amok.
10/10/08
Quarantine fails to correct some of the problems evident in its predecessor while also incorporating a few defects of its own.
10/10/08
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 perfect.
10/10/08
Claustrophobic, jittery at times, and electric in pace, Quarantine is a stripped-down bloody thrill ride that -- while certainly not catering to everyone's tastes -- should satisfy gore-hounds looking to step up their theatrical horror cuisine.
10/10/08
Quarantine is a modestly inventive, sporadically exciting thriller that nonetheless proves too faithful to its central conceit for its own good.
10/10/08
Top CriticLatest News for Quarantine
October 09, 2008:
Critics Consensus: Express Scores, Body of Lies Falls Flat
This week at the movies, we've got suspicious spies (Body of Lies, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe), gridiron greats (The Express, starring Rob Brown and Dennis... More...
October 09, 2008:
Box Office Guru Preview: Audiences Surrounded by Lies
Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, two men that have on more than one occasion anchored blockbusters that have also won Oscars for Best Picture, team up for the anti-terrorism... More...
October 07, 2008:
Warners Casting Lethal Weapon 5 
During an interview with IGN to promote "Quarantine," Columbus Short let slip that he's up for a role in "Lethal Weapon 5" -- and that Warners has fast-tracked the sequel. More...
July 29, 2008:
Red Band Trailer.
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