Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to catch the festival favorite, REC and even though there is no news about it being released in North America, the American remake ‘Quarantine’ is already underway. The project is directed by John Erick Dowdle (director of the upcoming horror film, ‘The Poughkeepsie Tapes’) and stars ‘Dexter’s’ Jennifer Carpenter and Hostel’s Jay Hernandez.
The good folks at Arrow in the Head give us this picture and synopsis:
QUARANTINE is about Television reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers Wilensky and McCreedy already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. Unbeknownst to them, a woman has contracted a rare strain of rabies. When they try to leave the building with those injured from a wild attack by the infected woman, they find that they’ve been locked in. Indeed, there are police, SWAT and CDC crews securing the building. But phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those quarantined inside.
This to me sounds like a DIRECT remake of the original, and even though I think it’s odd that they’re remaking a movie that hasn’t even been seen by many people, I’m still excited to see Jennifer Carpenter play the television reporter if only to hear her vulgar swearing!
The picture doesn’t say much, but if this movie is anything like the original, horror fiends are in for a treat!
Your thoughts?
I wouldn’t kick Jennifer out of bed for farting, but it’s a little disturbing just how fast they’re pumping out the remakes now.
She is awesome on Dexter. Sounds interesting.
Serena, Big Sam is reffering to the little seen, but entertaining thriller Warning Sign, I think. The virus caused the infected scientists to slowly lose skin, have nasty rashes and, oh yeah, one side effect was to literally lose your marbles, A few infected were harmless, one blew his brains out. Others…well, they choked, strangled. axed and fired upon not only the non-infected, but other infected as well.
As for this remake of REC (which I haven’t seen, but it makes sense if the film did have some accessibility at least on DVD like other foriegn films have…where most of them are appreciated a bit more*) I am looking forward to it, partially because I’m looking foward to seeing Jennifer Carpenter on the big screen again…I really loved ‘Emily Rose’…
Jennifer Carpenter is absolutely kick-ass in ‘Dexter’. If you want to hear more swearing (and great acting) from her, just watch the show. Brilliant…
ummm….no bigsampson. lol
It’s a remake of REC. Although, what movie are YOU referring to. Sounds interesting.
“I’m still excited to see Jennifer Carpenter play the television reporter if only to hear her vulgar swearing!”
amen….u just cant get enough of it in Dexter. I havent seen the orginal but it sounds pretty sweet…
omfg yeees!!! i totally loved this movie when i was like 8……is it the one where they get locked in the bio hazard building with crazy messed up doctors carrying axes lol? of course it is yeees!!!!