Review – Quarantine (2008)

This movie started out okay. In fact, the premise had potential. A reality show camera/announcer duo doing a ride-along with the fire department ends up stuck in an apartment building full of tenants infected with a fast-acting, 28 Days Later-ish case of rabies. But then they stuck with the single-camera perspective, which needless to say Blair Witched the production in fairly short order. Furthermore, by the halfway point they’d effectively run out of script, and the rest of the movie was a lot of jerky camera thrashing and screaming. As the end approached, I actually had to mute the damn thing, and I still walked away with a splitting headache. Add the terrible production decisions to the relentless cruelty to old people, animals and children, and there’s just nothing that redeems this stinker. Wish I’d skipped it