Quarantine (2008)

Release date: 2008-10-10
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Production Co: Screen Gems, Vertigo Entertainment, Andale Pictures
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rating: 6.0/10
Length: 1h 29min

Storyline

A television reporter and her cameraman are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles fire crew. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartments. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to leave with the news crew, only to find the building has quarantined. All communication in and it is stopped; the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.

Plot Keywords

found footage, apartment building, trapped, virus, quarantine, punched in the face, rat, remake, shot in the chest, shot in the forehead, pistol, one night, night vision, needle, media manipulation, mauling, loss of loved one, kicked in the face, jumping through a window, shot to death

Short Review

Shame on the filmmakers for reducing one of the main characters to an incessantly whimpering, hyperventilating embodiment of fingernails on a chalkboard for what feels like the final third of the film.