Quarantine (2008)

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Movie
German title quarantine
Original title Quarantine
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director John Erick Dowdle
script John Erick Dowdle ,
Drew Dowdle
production Sergio Aguero ,
Doug Davison ,
Roy Lee
camera Ken Seng
cut Elliot Greenberg
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Quarantine 2: Terminal

Quarantine (Original title: Quarantine ) is an American horror film from 2008 by director John Erick Dowdle , who also wrote the screenplay with Drew Dowdle . The film is a remake of the Spanish horror film [● REC] from 2007.

action

TV reporter Angela Vidal and cameraman Scott Percival, who works with her, spend a night at a fire station in Los Angeles filming a documentary. The film emerges from the camera lens. An incoming emergency call sends the fire brigade team including Angela and Scott out. An old woman's screams are said to have been heard in an apartment building. The police are already present after the fire brigade arrives and have surrounded the building. When the police enter the apartment and want to calm the angry woman, she attacks a police officer and bites him in the neck. The front door was already locked by the police on return and a quarantine was ordered and a news blackout was imposed. While everyone is gathering in the entrance hall and there is a disagreement, the fireman George Fletcher, who was still with the old lady, immediately falls through the stairwell and is seriously injured.

Meanwhile, other residents are being evacuated, including a non-English speaking married African couple, a lawyer - apparently drunk - and a sick young woman whose condition is viewed quite negatively. A rat that runs straight towards Scott and apparently wants to bite him is overwhelmed by him. The injured are treated in an adjoining room. Angela gradually begins to interview the residents of the house, with a child named Briana talking about his sick dog and suffering from bronchitis himself . Suddenly Fletcher is standing in the entrance hall and starts to spit strange secretions . He is immobilized with an anesthetic . Lawrence - a veterinarian who also lives in the house - suspects it could be rabies . He also believes that the young woman and the policeman bitten by the old woman are affected because they all have the same symptoms . Bernard and Sadie, who live in an apartment together, leave the room with Scott and Angela and try to get news reception in their apartment using a television antenna. When the power suddenly goes out, the young infected woman enters the apartment and attacks Scott, who can kill her with the camera.

Shortly thereafter, an envoy from the US health department CDC entered the building. He takes a sample from the brains of the injured. When they come to and start to get aggressive, the situation escalates and the vet is bitten. After the residents and the camera team have been informed by the officer that it is a mutated form of the rabies pathogen and this was diagnosed in a dog from the house, the suspicion immediately falls on the dog of Briana. She spits sputum in her mother's face and runs away. The mother is then handcuffed to a railing and the team is looking for Briana. Meanwhile, she bites the second policeman in the neck. Scott, Angela, and Fireman Jake escape.

Barricaded in an empty apartment, Bernard tries to escape through the window, but is shot by a rifleman on the opposite roof when he opens the window and destroys the plastic tarpaulin. Sadie is infected by rabies. Shortly afterwards, everyone decides to flee through the sewer system when the landlord is bitten by the officer and left behind by the others. When the camera team tries to escape with Jake using the elevator, which is running on emergency power, they are attacked by Sadie, who is then killed by Jake in self-defense with a broken neck.

Angela looks for the key in the landlord's apartment, while the firefighter tries not to let the infected people get into the apartment. After Angela has found the keys, the three of them want to go to the basement to escape through the sewer system. Fireman Jake is also killed, leaving reporter Angela and cameraman Scott the only survivors.

However, they do not flee to the basement, as there are many infected people on the stairs, but to the attic storey. According to earlier information from the landlord, this was rented by a man who is hardly present. Using the light from Scott's camera, they search the attic apartment and find out that Scott has set up occult objects. He broke into a chemical weapons laboratory and stole a virus there. After opening a trap door in the roof, the camera team is attacked by an infected boy who destroys the lamp. Scott then turns on the camera's night vision device. As Scott looks around, he sees a figure. Despite the presence of Angela and Scott, she searches the kitchen. Scott tries to escape, is attacked and drops the camera. Angela screams and takes the camera and sees through the night vision device how the man Scott is eating. Unable to control herself, she screams and is also attacked, dropping the camera while fighting the unknown infected. Angela looks for her again, but is pulled into the dark by the unknown being. Their fate remains uncertain.

background

  • The remake of [● REC] was released in German cinemas just seven months after its predecessor was released .
  • The film was shot in Los Angeles and at the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City .
  • The cost of production was 12 million US dollars estimated. The film grossed around 41 million US dollars in cinemas worldwide, including around 31 million US dollars in the USA and 0.2 million US dollars in Germany.
  • It was released in theaters on October 10, 2008 in the USA and on December 4, 2008 in Germany.

Differences to [● REC]

  • The film [● REC] is a demon-like virus. In quarantine, the virus is a rabies disease.
  • The role names were completely changed with the exception of Angela Vidal, whereby the pronunciation of the name differs significantly.
  • While Angela and Scott are examining the attic, they find a tape on which the recording sounds distorted. A man's voice can be recognized in [● REC].
  • The protagonists from [● REC] encounter a being who is female in an attic apartment. The sex of the being in quarantine is not clearly established, but it can be assumed that this is a male being, as Scott says: He cannot see us and if he does not hear us , he will not find us.
  • Unlike in quarantine, in [● REC] you don't see the cameraman once - only individual body parts, such as the legs, are shown.
  • In contrast to the original, a resident tries to escape through the window, cuts up the tarpaulin and is then shot by a sniper.
  • There is no elevator that they use to escape in the original film.

Reviews

Peter Uehling wrote in the Berliner Zeitung : “With a few, albeit important exceptions, 'Quarantine' is basically identical to 'REC', except for the violently shaking shots. [...] 'Quarantine' differs from 'REC' at most in that it has lost the straightforward brutal innocence of the original, but is also aware of it. […] Even if Angela and Scott are freaks of what journalism should one day be, the helplessness with which the fourth estate stumbles through a scandal, an intention that is critical of the media cannot be denied. "

Rudolf Inderst wrote on filmspiegel.de : “'Quarantine' has become a straightforward and bloody horror film. The original was not squeamish, but a few more small camera angles give the big mess additional hardness. [...] Of course, one knows from Grandmaster Romero that in the event of a break in state order, Hobbes is the first thing to do . The policeman's weapon then sits more loosely, the firefighter no longer only hits doors with the fire ax and the little child gnaws with relish on mom. […] But even before that, the bourgeois masks fall in the form of everyday racism, which obviously can only be kept in check with great difficulty. But alas, the immigrant's father could have brought the disease into the country - then humanism and melting pot are over. And there is always mistrust of government agencies that manipulate the authorities, lies, appeases and, perhaps most permanently: fails. "

The lexicon of international films judged: "Hollywood remake of the Spanish horror film [Rec]", which largely follows its predecessor in content and style and therefore refers to the same influences. Beyond that, the remake hardly offers any independent interpretations. "

continuation

A sequel under the title Quarantine 2: Terminal was released in July 2011. Leading actors include Mercedes Masöhn and Josh Cooke . The film is a direct-to-DVD production . The film was modeled on REC 2 , although the two films have completely different plot scenarios.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for quarantine . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 871 K).
  2. ↑ boxofficemojo.com
  3. ↑ Night shift with zombies . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 4, 2008
  4. ↑ filmspiegel.de
  5. ^ Quarantine in the Lexicon of International Films Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used