Ahh, alas another installment of the shaky-hand cam horror series. Following films like "The Blair Witch Project" and "Cloverfield", we have Quarantine. Although I'm generally not a fan of the "home movie" format when it comes to trying to enstill "realism" into a movie, I found myself enjoying Quarantine quite a bit.
The story surrounds a reporter played by Louisville, KY native Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) who has been assigned to film an expose on a local L.A. firehouse and it's crew. The movie starts out jovial and light-hearted as the reporter has fun with the fire-fighters and seems to be bored by the mundane lives the fire-fighters live outside of fighting fires. Suddenly, the call comes in and they are called out to a situation at a downtown L.A. apartment building. They enter the buildign to find out that a resident is seemingly trapped in her apartment and the crew move in to investigate. What they find is the resident inside her apartment, foaming at the mouth and obviously suffering from some form of psychosis. The policemen at the scene and the firefighters try to reason with the woman, but when she attacks and mortally wounds one of the officers, it becomes clear that something more serious is going on. Just as they try to escort the officer outside to seek medical treatment, they find the exit doors locked. Outside the doors are the CDC with orders to shoot and kill anyone who exits the building. What follows is a shocking roller-coaster ride as more and more people begin getting atacked by infected residents and in the end you are feeling the same anxiety and adrenaline rushes that our characters are feelign as they struggle to survive this nightmare.
Quarantine is a remake of the Spanish film "Rec". Quarantine isn't the best horror film out there, but what it does do is keep you on the edge of your seat for the entire runtime of 89 minutes.
3 out of 5 stars "check it out"
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