Quarantine: Review By kyle_hannah

Most horror movies this year have been awful from One Missed Call to The Eye it's been one lame failure after the other but Quarantine is probably the only horror movie all year that successfully captured tension and suspense enough to keep you cringing with anticipation. Firstly i expected this movie to be fun be all together just an ok horror flick with some good kills here and there but i was pleasantly surprised. Here we have the same Cloverfield shaky cam style which does getting annoying but the plot and characters get you so into the situations you don't really care you just want to see what happens next, meaning Quarantine has done it's job.

The acting is solid Jennifer Carpenter of Dexter fame is flawless as a panic stricken newsanchor trapped in an apartment fully of rabies infected humans, she so perfectly portrays fear and we really connect to the likeability of her character. Other actors include Dania Ramirez (X-Men 3), and Colombus Short (Stomp The Yard) adding likeable and realistic charactersitics to a terrifyingly possible situation. Everyone pretty much acts in panic and they all are screaming or paranoid the differance is the fact that they create differant kinds of everyday people in one situation an immigrant couple who speaks no english, and drunk with a handicapped father, people you kind of root for all the way through i personally liked the firefighter. The point is most horror movies these days make you want to see the characters die, Quarantine makes you hope certain characters make it out ok.

The kills in the movie are so perfectly effective and incredibly horrifying yet subtle. The gore is minimal we don't have a hostel on our hands and many of the kills are left to the imagination. A lot of the movies death scenes are gory but the camera doesn't focus on it for too long the act and the violence is scarieer then the gore and most horror films do the opposite trying to gross you out with gory effects. Quarantine will have your nerves shot with effective jump scares and great camera angles with perfect suspense and build up to make it thoroughly scary. The sound effects are fantastic and add to that whole pit of your stomach feeling Quarantine gives you when you begin watching.

Quarantine really doesn't need a budget or anything to be scary and it proves that you don't need the best effects, or the A List actors, or the goriest make up to create a truly terrifying experience, all you need is a hell of a good writer and a camera Quarantine has both.