Quarantine

Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, and Johnathon Schaech star in this remake of Jaume Balagueró 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 ...more

Hollywood horror films have reached a creative dead end. Given the abundance of remakes of classic scream and slasher flicks, the genre, which panders to bored teenagers with expendable incomes and nothing to do on a Friday night, has stagnated considerably and suffered from a drought of ideas. That's alarming, since anything goes in horror with the help of copious blood and guts, or psychological manipulation which engenders terror. Quarantine tries to scare outside of the box, framing a ...more

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 ...more