A faithful adaptation of the 2007 Spanish film REC, QUARANTINE chronicles the outbreak of a rabies-like disease in a Los Angeles apartment building and the struggle of the unaffected residents to stay alive after the authorities trap them inside in an effort to contain it. Equal parts BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and 28 DAYS LATER, the film is presented through the eye of a video camera, putting the audience in the middle of the action and creating a heightened level of intensity and realism. Television reporter Angela (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman, Scott (Steve Harris), are covering the goings-on at a firehouse for a program about night shift workers. As she clowns around with two flirty firemen (Jonathan Schaech and Jay Hernandez), an alarm sounds, and a truck is dispatched--with Angela and Scott on board---to an apartment building where an old woman has seemingly lost her mind. The woman bites one of the firemen and is soon killed, but when more tenants turn up with the same disorder, it's clear that a chain reaction is occurring. Unfortunately for Angela and the rest of the uninfected residents, the authorities have quarantined the building---but she and Scott continue to document the tragic and terrifying events inside the building as those inside are one by one transformed into bloodthirsty monsters.

Director John Eric Dowdle, whose film THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES also used a pseudo-documentary approach in detailing the crimes of a serial killer, creates a sustained level of chaos and fear that will have all but the most seasoned horror fan cowering in the corner. Though the shaky camerawork may be difficult to take for those prone to motion sickness, it--along with a complete absence of music--gives the film a startling realism and immediacy to accompany its stomach-churning descent into full-on hopelessness and dread.

UMD Features:

Region 1
Full Frame - 1.33
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English, French
Subtitles - English, French - Optional

Distributor Notes: Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been viciously attacked by something unknown. After a few of the residents are also attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC 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. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.

Source: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Jennifer Carpenter: Star, THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE (2005)
Jay Hernandez: Actor, CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL
Columbus Short: Actor, STEPPIN' (2007)
Greg Germann: Actor
Steve Harris: American actor, QUARANTINE
Dania Ramirez: Actress, SHE HATE ME (2004)
Rade Serbedzija: Yugoslav Actor, EYES WIDE SHUT, SNATCH
Johnathon Schaech: 

John Erick Dowdle: Director-screenwriter, THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES

Doug Davison: Producer, THE LAKE HOUSE (2006)
Roy Lee: Executive Producer, THE RING (2002)
Sergio Aguero: Executive Producer, Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN (2001)

John Erick Dowdle: Director-screenwriter, THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES
Drew Dowdle: Producer, THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES

"QUARANTINE delivers the heebie-jeebies with solid acting and perfectly calibrated shocks."
3 stars out of 5 -- "QUARANTINE successfully replicates the claustrophobic tension of [REC] and cranks up the sudden eruptions of frenzied violence, making it as much of a white-knuckle terror ride as it was the first time around."
"Ratcheting up the suspense, helmer Dowdle unfolds the action more or less in real time....QUARANTINE relies heavily on shadowy atmospherics..."
"[The filmmakers] wisely stick close to the told-from-the-cameraman's-point-of-view template of the terrific original, though they add a few fine flourishes." -- Grade: B+
3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] clammy, fingernail-scraping experience, strong on sound design which, with its constant background of sirens and choppers, builds a palpable post-9/11 panic."
"The performances are generally pretty good, particularly those of Jay Hernandez as a levelheaded firefighter and Columbus Short as a less-balanced cop