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Directed By
John Erick Dowdle
Written By:
John Erick Dowdle, Paco Plaza, Luis Berdejo, Drew Dowdle, Jaume Balagueró, Luis Berdejo
Cast:
Jennifer Carpenter, Rade Serbedzija, Johnathon Schaech, Columbus Short, Jay Hernandez, Marin Hinkle, Steve Harris, Greg Germann, Joey King, Denis O'Hare, Bernard White, Andrew Fiscella, Shawn Driscoll, Barry Sigismondi, Stacy Chbosky, Jermaine Jackson, Benjamin Stockham, Sharon Ferguson, Ronnie Lewis Jr.
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Quarantine (2008)
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Movie Review by Zara 
May 12th, 2009
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In the realm of shaky-cam, post-BLAIR WITCH cinema, very rarely do I find myself even remotely interested in the movie after about the first 10 minutes, in which you pretty much figure out everything that's going on.
While QUARANTINE keeps true to the shaky-cam concept, it's one of the most level shaky cams that I've seen, reducing the headache that most of these movies give you. What they've managed to do well is take the concept and do it in a high budget manner, taking away one of the most annoying things about the genre. Shaky cam without being totally shaky cam. A feat unto itself.
After that, if you just focus on Jennifer Carpenter and her degradation from a spunky, self-confident news reporter who is doing a niche report with her one cameraman into a woman who is insane with fear over what she thought was going to be a good story, the movie is somewhat entertaining. Most of what goes on is meant to scare you in the regular ways and there are still a couple of good jumpy spook moments, but Carpenter makes the movie more interesting in that she's unafraid of how ugly she might get while she eventually (and realistically) succumbs to fear.
Not a great movie, but far better than I would have expected from it.
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