Sunday, December 07, 2008, 11:42 PM
Just in case you didn't already know this, Quarantine is actually the American remake of the Spanish horror flick, REC.
Now that we have that cleared up, let's get it on.
This is basically another one of those zombie flicks where we have the bitters, the screamers and the doomed. Angela (Jennifer Carpenter), our reporter, who is doing a documentary of sorts on the firemen of Los Angeles gets entangled in a bloody mess when she follows them to an old apartment building where an old woman was reported to have been injured and in need of medical support. I never knew that firemen had to report to medical cases, but, meh.
The movie is mostly shot through the view of a camera, which tops up the fright level as your field of vision is greatly limited and you never know when the bitters would come chomping after you. No worries though, this camera view effect doesn't leave the viewers nauseated - but the blood and gore might though, if you are of the faint-hearted.
Overall, I would have to say that the horror factor of the show isn't actually quite up to standard. The whole scene of the movie leaves little for exploration, which explains it's rushed sequence right after the bitters started to surface. Angela's screaming seems a whole lot more horrifying than the zombies, believe me.
If you are looking for a good scare, you might want to try REC instead. Whatever the remake couldn't succeed in doing, the original just might. Quarantine should just be quarantined with the rest of the failed zombie flicks.
