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Quarantine

13 durable postsStarted 2008-10-09Latest 2009-03-06
#60622Post 1 of 13

sickly frightening. I remember seeing the trailer a few months back, and it has finally come out.

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[QUOTE] Television reporter Angela Vidal ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Carpenter"]Jennifer Carpenter[/URL]) and her cameraman ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Harris_(actor)"]Steve Harris[/URL]) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-1-1"]911[/URL] call takes them to a small [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment_building"]apartment building[/URL], they find [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_officer"]police officers[/URL] already on the scene in response to bloodcurdling screams coming from one of the apartments. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by a mysterious disease which turns victims into bloodthirsty savages. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention"]CDC[/URL] has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside, and are apparently taking actions to prevent them from escaping. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape and the eerie gaze of an unseen man in the distance. [/QUOTE]

#1098785Post 2 of 13

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have you seen it? i thought the trailer was really well done and the movie looks great from the trailer. but i usually never go check these type of flicks out in the theater because they usually are always a letdown for me. i hope this one is an exception though.

#1100246Post 3 of 13

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You guys should see REC, the original, it's great

#1100308Post 4 of 13

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^ that's what I heard. still haven't had a chance to go see it. Waiting for Saw V to come out, see if I can't pull a double-feature.

#1101095Post 5 of 13

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This movie looks really good! I really like the concept of the cameramen shadowing the LA Fire Station.

There is another horror movie coming on on Halloween that I just saw the trailer for... it's called Splinter. It looks pretty scary too--I'm excited to see both.

Here's a link to the Splinter trailer [url]http://www.hollywood.com/movie/Splinter/5070764[/url]

#1101341Post 6 of 13

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FaK just watched the trailer - looks very good may well want to watch it on the big one

#1101684Post 7 of 13

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Just watched this today..seemed decent.It kinda goes along the lines of Cloverfield/Blair Witch in that the movie is filmed by a person holding a video camera throughout. It's pretty much a first person shot.It did seem pretty scary in regards to you didnt know what was gonna come cause the lighting was basically non existent to very minimal.You basically saw what the camera guy saw.I guess having watched Audition recently and the original version of Shutter nothing that American movies come out with are scary to me anymore.

#1106871Post 8 of 13

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Not bad . . .but nothing new really and acting was kinda weak at times.

#1107718Post 9 of 13

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[quote=buckman;663754]Just watched this today..seemed decent.It kinda goes along the lines of Cloverfield/Blair Witch in that the movie is filmed by a person holding a video camera throughout. It's pretty much a first person shot.It did seem pretty scary in regards to you didnt know what was gonna come cause the lighting was basically non existent to very minimal.You basically saw what the camera guy saw.I guess having watched Audition recently and the original version of Shutter nothing that American movies come out with are scary to me anymore.[/quote]

american remakes usually are crap.

the only exception that comes to mind is The Ring, first one was really good.

#1167558Post 10 of 13

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Rented this last night and was much better than I expected. Defo like Blair Witch & Cloverfield. Don't see it if you want great acting but did scare the crap out of me in a couple spots. Was yelling STFU a Dexter's sister by the end cuz she got quite annoying. Defo worth the $1 I paid to rent it

#1172188Post 11 of 13

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[quote=RiseandShine;662174]You guys should see REC, the original, it's great[/quote]

Yeah, [REC] was far superior. They also shouldn't have spoiled the ending with the trailer to Quarantine. The remake was competent, but nothing special.

#1173292Post 12 of 13

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nice movie

#1175841Post 13 of 13

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saw this one last night, didn't anticipate the level of goriness that I was greeted with i.e. the broken shin bone. I thought the idea of the movie was unique, haven't seen REC so will defo have to give that one a go. But I think the movie, especially the female reporter, did an excellent job. She's the same woman who acts as Emilie Rose in "The Exorcism of Emilie Rose" and I thought she did a great job in that movie as well as this one.

The extent to which she has depicted how utterly scared and out of her mind she truly was (especially towards the end of the movie), I felt was brilliant. Her shaking hands, trembling body, her slow movements with the gradual introduction of losing her sense of reality when she would just close her eye and shake violently, was incredibly good. She made this movie a real treat to watch.

Though, the way they ended it was rather stupid but that was my only complaint.

I'd give it a decent [B]7/10[/B]

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