Shame on the filmmakers for reducing one of the main characters to an incessantly whimpering, hyperventilating embodiment of fingernails on a chalkboard for what feels like the final third of the film.

| Oct 17, 2018

Quarantine is a one-note nightmare.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Not as frightening as it should be, but still better than the average Hollywood scare-a-thon.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 24, 2009

An affair that aims low and succeeds well in such.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 2, 2009

The camera bounces along, its path blocked frequently by the back of some fleeing figure, so that you're never quite sure where you are, where you're going or what you're looking at...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 1, 2008

Delivers a pleasingly high quota of decent jolts as the body count mounts and the 온라인카지노추천 airhead becomes increasingly hysterical.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2008

The Spanish film worked better than John Erick Dowdle's remake, which is, if possible, even more chaotically filmed to the point that you often haven't got the slightest idea what's happening -- you just know that it's nasty.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2008

As a visceral, camera-shuddery ride into foamy-mouthed zombie hell, it's efficient enough - but if you've already seen [Rec], steer clear...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2008

An American remake of the Spanish horror movie '[Rec]' that adopts the same basic recipe, but removes any hint of flavour or texture, reducing cutting-edge Catalan cuisine to bland, bite-sized McNuggets.

| Original Score: 1/6 | Nov 21, 2008

Quarantine is a lucrative steal by Dowdle. The Spanish original is arguably the best vérité fright movie since The Blair Witch Project. The American version is not quite in the same league.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2008

Good news for those who missed the Spanish zombie horror [REC] when it opened here a few months back. Here comes the inevitable fast-tracked Hollywood remake, which covers the same ground without the burden of all those subtitled hysterics.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 21, 2008

The Spanish did it all a little better but Carpenter rivals her European counterpart in hollering blue murder.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 21, 2008

Originality or no but damn it all if this stripped-down frightener put me on pins and needles and, at times, terrified the ever-living stuffing right out from inside of me.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2008

Quarantine feels awfully familiar, and it grows less convincing with each passing moment. At its worst, it abandons realism entirely and flirts with gory kitsch.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 13, 2008

Quarantine is based on the 2007 Spanish thriller [REC]. Like any imitation, the quality's not as good, but this is about cheap thrills, of which there are not enough.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 13, 2008

Give Quarantine credit: Without resorting to computer-generated monsters or supernatural explanations, it uses consistent logic and confinement to find new ways of being scary.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2008

Quarantine, yet another pseudo-documentary horror movie, delivers the heebie-jeebies with solid acting and perfectly calibrated shocks.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 13, 2008

I have seen many execrable films -- Plan 9 From Outer Space, Disaster Movie, Batman & Robin -- but never has a movie made me so physically ill.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Oct 13, 2008

Quarantine is a modestly inventive, sporadically exciting thriller that nonetheless proves too faithful to its central conceit for its own good.

Full Review | Oct 10, 2008