Quarantine

Times Watched: 1
Watched With: Nobody @ Cathay EHub
Snacks: 100 Plus
Hidden Scene After Movie: No

This is an American remake of the Spanish movie [REC].

Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman Scott Percival (Steve Harris) are with a local TV station who're filming a variety programme.
And the lucky assignment? To tag along with the local Spanish firemen as they go through their nightly routines.

And just their luck - they get a call.
So Angela & Pablo follow firemen Jake (Jay Hernandez) & Fletcher (Johnathon Schaech) to a building in town to rescue a woman trapped in her apartment.

But there's more than meets the eye and what was supposed to be a routine call turns out to be more like a zombie fest as people start dropping like flies (literally) only to return to life just to eat other people.
And to make it even better - the government decide to seal up the whole place to contain a potention outbreak rather than rescue the people in the building.

Can Angela and the rest of them survive?

That's right. The above was a word for word copy and paste of my review for [REC].
That's because this was an exact plot remake.
Differences? Well firstly this movie does not induce vomitting and headaches like its Spanish counterpart because even though there is shaky camerawork, you don't have the added hassle of reading any subtitles.

The fact that there were a few familiar faces involved was also good.
Look out for Yuri (Rade Serbedzija), Lawrence (Greg Germann), Sadie (Dania Ramirez) and even the cameraman Scott is played by that fish-lips black lawyer from The Practice if you remember.
And the fact that there are more characters in this movie means that there are added elements and character developments not seen in the original movie.

And to be honest (and yet not completely spoil it for all of you) I have to admit that this movie looked like it was going a different direction for awhile.
It actually appeared like the explanation for the whole movie was going to make more sense this time!
Well. It appeared so anyways.

And maybe it was because I watched the original so I could kinda guess what was going to happen next so i didn't find it as scary or jumpy as when i watched the Spanish movie. But i reckon if this movie is your first watch then maybe you might find it a bit scary too i guess. Maybe.

But still i say it's slightly better than the original.
Only slightly though.

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