Quarantine Preview
By: Harmony Wheeler |
Friday October 03, 2008 |
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A television news crew is trapped in a quarantined apartment building where something mysterious has infected residents. |
| Lock yourself in a room and prepare for a scare. Rated R for violence and language, Quarantine follows after films like Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project. Audiences watch the videotapes left behind in an apartment building by a news crew. The people on the videotapes have disappeared, but their stories haven’t. When the Centers for Disease Control quarantines a small apartment building, television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter of Dexter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris of The Practice) are trapped inside. The two learn that an unknown disease has infected a tenant and several pets belonging to other tenants. The infection continues to spread, causing tenants to attack every living creature that comes in their way. Jennifer and Steve fight for their lives, but when CDC finally lifts the quarantine, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew’s videotape. Directed by John Erick Dowdle (of The Poughkeepsie Tapes), Quarantine is filmed from the perspective of the cameraman in a style reminiscent of Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project. The film remakes the 2007 Spanish horror film, REC, for American audiences. REC won the screams and praise of many critics but is little known in the United States. Filmmakers tried to raise awareness of Quarantine in March by releasing two anonymous videos chronicling a viral incident, Case 1017. More than one million people watched the videos, many believing the incident to be real. The official movie web site for Quarantine (http://www.containthetruth.com) has also drawn many viewers. Viewers navigate the site by clicking on various rooms of an apartment building. The rooms includes a game, widgets, downloads, links to the film’s Facebook and Myspace pages, galleries, a synopsis, and a trailer that contains several spoilers. Filled with suspense, action, and mystery, Quarantine will entrap audiences starting October 10. |
