This one was recommended to me by several friends, so I decided to add it to the list. Surprisingly enough, I am glad that I did.
#17 Quarantine
As the movie starts off, I got a bad feeling of deja vu. This movie felt much too much like the beginning of “The Blair Witch Project” and I was afraid that it would just be a cheap rip off. As it turns out, I was only partially correct. “Quarantine” is a movie that follows a “film crew” of two people that are shadowing a fire dept for a story they are doing for a local news show. Your main characters are Angela and Scott (nice name buddy). The entire movie is shot “shaky cam” style on a hand held video camera. The two go out on a call that appears at first to be routine, but turns out to be anything but. They arrive at an old apartment house to respond to a woman screaming, and find the woman has actually gone quite mad. From then on, shit goes down hill, and fast. Come to find out the buildings tenants are one by one being bitten and being infected with some form of advanced rabies. Think of it as like the virus in 28 Days Later, Rage. Super aggressive, and fast, almost zombie-like people. Oh and the building is sealed up by the CDC and other governmental offices so that the “infection” doesn’t get out. The rest of the film is all about them trying to do just that, get out. Save for one part in the end involving a baby, it wasn’t that surprising of a movie. Everything followed the path that similar movies follow. I was, however, impressed with the way that it went down this path. Taking out each character one by one was very vicious, and at times quite disgusting. I was satisfied with the movie as a whole though, and would probably recommend it to others. I know there is an original movie out there called [Rec] that this is based on so maybe I will watch that at some point. The ending wasn’t at all surprising, though what did surprise me was there was not epilogue, or “stinger” at the end. Maybe it is on the DVD release. Either way, it will probably fit nicely into the top five of the movies I have watched so far, and that’s gotta be worth something.
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