In case you didn't know, Quarantine, starring Jennifer Carpenter from "Dexter," is based off the Spanish horror film REC. The great thing about REC was that it felt real, even though it was a "zombie" flick, just because it was shot like Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield, both great films. It was true horror and not that nonsense we see in a lot of the horror films that come out nowadays that show how much of a stupid society we are becoming as Americans.
I was not looking forward to Quarantine because of a fear of mine: This is a remake, and it looks like REC, but in English. Unfortunately that came true.
This is not even a bad movie. Not at all. It still scares you, even with the same scares, and it doesn't do anything wrong except....it's the same thing. I was watching REC while watching Quarantine and vice versa. It was the same thing and yet it never added up to the level of greatness that REC had.
And sometimes when they did make changes it didn't work. For example, the cameraman in REC never shows his face, and that adds to the illusion of the character. But in Quarantine, first shot of the freaking movie, he walks out from behind the camera to fix the girl's hair. For one thing, it ruins your imagination, and two, it just feels like the director's had to make an excuse to get the guy on screen.
There are some things that I did like about this film though. In the original REC, while the police were there you never saw what would happen if someone tried to escape. In Quarantine, things that weren't shown in REC are placed in Quarantine and that makes the film in some ways scarier. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's a better movie.
My overall verdict, go watch the original version. But if you are like a lot of people out there who refuse to watch subtitled films, check this one out instead.
I was not looking forward to Quarantine because of a fear of mine: This is a remake, and it looks like REC, but in English. Unfortunately that came true.
This is not even a bad movie. Not at all. It still scares you, even with the same scares, and it doesn't do anything wrong except....it's the same thing. I was watching REC while watching Quarantine and vice versa. It was the same thing and yet it never added up to the level of greatness that REC had.
And sometimes when they did make changes it didn't work. For example, the cameraman in REC never shows his face, and that adds to the illusion of the character. But in Quarantine, first shot of the freaking movie, he walks out from behind the camera to fix the girl's hair. For one thing, it ruins your imagination, and two, it just feels like the director's had to make an excuse to get the guy on screen.
There are some things that I did like about this film though. In the original REC, while the police were there you never saw what would happen if someone tried to escape. In Quarantine, things that weren't shown in REC are placed in Quarantine and that makes the film in some ways scarier. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's a better movie.
My overall verdict, go watch the original version. But if you are like a lot of people out there who refuse to watch subtitled films, check this one out instead.