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Horror Movie Club

Quarantine (2008)

Horror Movie Club

Ashvin and Brian

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.4767 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We kick off a month of remakes, reboots, and re-imaginings with this U.S. remake of the Spanish film Rec.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I know someone's out there.

0:07.0

I know someone's out there. Hey there, listeners, welcome to horror movie club, the show where two dudes who aren't quite nerds, but not quite nubes.

0:31.1

Choose a horror movie each week to rate and review.

0:33.8

I'm Oshfin.

0:34.5

I've got Brian on the phone with me.

0:36.2

And today we're going to be reviewing the 2008 horror film Quarantine, directed by John Eric Dowdell and starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, and Columbus Short. And it's the story of a news crew that gets quarantined in a residential building that comes under attack of a strange virus. This movie is a remake of the Spanish film

0:55.5

REC, and I chose this one just because of the relevancy of the title. Brian, had you seen

1:01.5

this before? I had not seen this, no. I saw REC, but I never saw this. How about you?

1:07.3

Oh, man, yeah, I saw this, like, when it came out, and I remember being a huge fan.

1:11.2

I hear REC is, like, supposed to be way better. Did you, like, I saw this, like, when it came out, and I remember being a huge fan. I hear rec is, like, supposed to be way better.

1:14.1

Did you like Rec?

1:15.7

I liked Rec a lot, and, yeah, I'd spoil my review, but I felt Rec was superior to this.

1:22.5

Yeah, pretty, it sounds like it's pretty similar just kind of up until the end.

1:26.9

Like, did you feel like

1:27.5

it was a screen by screen, uh, like a mirror of this? You know, it's been so long since I saw

1:33.9

a wreck. I probably saw a wreck in like 2010, I guess. Yeah. And I just, I feel like I was,

1:41.7

I don't know, I don't remember it that well. I remember thinking it was

1:44.2

really scary and good, but I couldn't remember much about it. And then I was reading on the plot,

1:48.0

and it was like, beat for beat, the same thing. Yeah, yeah, right. And I read some reviews online that

1:53.7

were like, this is nearly a shot for shot remake. Right. Yeah, yeah, That's kind of the feeling I have. I think the ending is supposed to be a little bit different.

2:02.2

Right.

2:02.3

But I think this film kind of put rec on the radar for a lot of people who might not have known about it, even though it came out like a year before this one, right?

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