Quarantine

Theatrical Release Date: 2008 10 17 (USA) / 2008 10 10 (USA)

UPC: 043396253674

Studio: Sony Pictures

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Profanity, Gore]

Summary: Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, and Johnathon Schaech star in this remake of Jaume Balaguer? and Paco Plaza's successful, Spanish-language horror film [REC], which follows a television reporter and her cameraman as they fall under a mysterious quarantine issued on an inner-city apartment building. Television reporter Angela Vidal (Carpenter) and her trusty cameraman (Steve Harris) were documenting a night in the life of a Los Angeles fire station crew when the firefighters were summoned to a nearby apartment building to answer a routine 911 call. Upon arriving at the scene, Angela and company discover that police have already arrived to investigate the blood-curdling screams ringing out from one of the apartments. One of the women living in the building has been infected with something terrible, but what? When a few of the other residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape and discover that the CDC has quarantined the building. The officials in charge won't relay any information to those trapped inside the building, and it's impossible to seek information from the outside since telephone, Internet, television, and cell-phone access have all been cut off. By the time the quarantine is lifted, the intrepid cameraman's chilling footage provides the only evidence of the horrors that unfolded on that terrible night. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Horror

Features: cc
"Locked In: The Making of Quarantine"
"Anatomy of a Stunt" featurette
"Dressing the Infected: Robert Hall's Make-up Design"
Commentary with writer/director John Erick Dowdle and writer/producer Drew Dowdle

Quarantine

Format: DVD

Release Date: 02/17/2009

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 89 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Quarantine
1. Chapter 1 [5:33]
2. Chapter 2 [5:24]
3. Chapter 3 [3:11]
4. Chapter 4 [8:20]
5. Chapter 5 [4:03]
6. Chapter 6 [1:34]
7. Chapter 7 [1:49]
8. Chapter 8 [3:12]
9. Chapter 9 [2:52]
10. Chapter 10 [:36]
11. Chapter 11 [1:20]
12. Chapter 12 [:41]
13. Chapter 13 [1:02]
14. Chapter 14 [2:33]
15. Chapter 15 [2:00]
16. Chapter 16 [3:49]
17. Chapter 17 [2:41]
18. Chapter 18 [2:12]
19. Chapter 19 [3:07]
20. Chapter 20 [2:52]
21. Chapter 21 [2:52]
22. Chapter 22 [3:09]
23. Chapter 23 [4:05]
24. Chapter 24 [:31]
25. Chapter 25 [1:48]
26. Chapter 26 [2:31]
27. Chapter 27 [5:41]
28. Chapter 28 [2:20]

Jeremy Wheeler

Intense handheld zombie frights are in store for viewers daring to take the leap into Quarantine, the American remake of Spain's heralded first-person chiller [REC]. Unfolding in near real time, the pic aims to put the audience into the action of an emergency response call gone horribly wrong. 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 beyond the usual creepy little kid rehashes. That's not to say that the shocking flick is altogether a home run. Fans of its forefather will be a bit perplexed that some of the best parts of the ending were not carried over to this near shot-for-shot redo. Where the original took the tale into a whole new creepy arena in its final moments, the remake's filmmaking team of brothers Drew and John E. Dowdle (the duo behind the similarly shot Poughkeepsie Tapes) seem more interested in keeping true to the switch-up of shooting style, rather than also injecting the plot with an added layer of disturbance. New viewers should still find the proceedings to be frightful, even if they are missing a big key as to why the predecessor has stayed ingrained in so many viewers' brains. As it is, the new production is a gruesome exercise in frantic pacing that hardly lets up throughout its 90-minute running time. Behind the scenes, the production impresses with its long takes and well-choreographed (if not a bit hard to discern) set pieces. The cast does what it can with the material, with Jennifer Carpenter turning up the hysteria when needed and Johnathon Schaech (complete with a bushy 'stache) adding macho heft to the production. All things considered, the picture doesn't do nearly the damage that other remakes have wrought. What story the film has is still a bleak one -- it's just a matter of whether the right people looking for this kind of frenzied experience will find it or not. Even more of a question to ask is why the American production yearned so much to adhere to scene-by-scene reenactments, only to wimp out when it came to the well-regarded finale? Then again, this is the same studio that decided to give away many of the twists and turns in all of the movie's advertising, so maybe audiences should take what they get and at least be thankful for that. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Rade Sherbedgia  Actor 
Carlos Fernández  Executive Producer 
Julio Fernández  Executive Producer 
Glenn S. Gainor  Executive Producer 
Jaume Balagueró  Screenwriter 
Doug Davison  Producer 
Roy Lee  Producer 
Paco Plaza  Screenwriter 
John E. Dowdle  Director 
John E. Dowdle  Screenwriter 
Sergio Aguero  Producer 
Drew Dowdle  Executive Producer 
Drew Dowdle  Screenwriter 
Luis A. Berdejo  Screenwriter 
Jennifer Carpenter  Actor 
Steve Harris  Actor 
Jay Hernandez  Actor 
Johnathon Schaech  Actor 
Columbus Short  Actor 
Rade Serbedzija  Actor 
Andrew Fiscella  Actor 
Greg Germann  Actor 
Dania Ramirez  Actor 
Bernard White  Actor 
Elaine Kagan  Actor 
Marin Hinkle  Actor 
Joey King  Actor 
Jermaine Jackson  Actor 
Sharon Ferguson  Actor 
Denis O'Hare  Actor 
Stacy Chbosky  Actor 
Jeannie Epper  Actor 
Barry Sigismonde  Actor 
Ace Hatem  Actor 
Christian Svensson  Actor 
Scott Donovan  Actor 
Michael Potter  Actor 
Jane Park Smith  Actor 
Craig Susser  Actor 
Bert Jernigan  Actor 
Doug Jones  Actor 
John Meier  Actor 
Troy M. Gilbert  Actor 
Shawn Driscoll  Actor 
Bryan Ross  Actor 
Robert Hall  Actor 
Ben Stockham  Actor 
Mike Hyland  Actor 
Ben Messmer  Actor 

Country: USA