Released By: Sony Pictures
Released On: 07/02/2011
Director: John Pogue
Cast: Mercedes Masí¶hn, Josh Cooke, Mattie Liptak, Ignacio Serricchio, Noree Victoria

The Film:

It's somewhat bandwagon and trendy to say, but man, I hate remakes. Though this lazy Hollywood trend has produced a couple of decent flicks, most of them are garbage and don't hold a candle to their original counterparts. With Quarantine, essentially a shot-for-shot remake...

Released by: Sony Entertainment
Released on: 2/17/2009
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Cast: Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Greg Germann, Steve Harris
Year: 2008
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The Movie:

The premise for director John Erick Dowdle's 2008 horror film Quarantine is an effectively simple one. In short, on the evening March 11, 2008 a reporter named Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her camera man followed...

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Finally got around to seeing this one on Netflix, the Spanish film that inspired the US 2008 remake as Quarantine. The story is told POV-style, the flavor de juor of horror films these days, it seems. The camera belongs to a cameraman and his excitable on-screen TV show host who are following the late-night outings of some firemen. After some basic character introductions they get a call at the fire house to an apartment where someone is apparently hurt. Innocuous enough but, very...