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Inevitably, when discussing a remake, comparisons will be drawn to the source material. Comparing Quarantine to [?REC] is almost a shot-for-shot exercise executed much more finely than, say, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and the 1998 version with Vince Vaughn (which cloned movement and position but not the original’s spirit). While several differences exist between the works, to Quarantine ‘s benefit it has a cleaner, crisper picture as well as incorporating new elements like dealing with infected animals like a rat and dog (reminiscent of Resident Evil) and the closed space of an elevator (all likely due to the film having six times the budget of the original).
The zombies apparently have enough reason to prepare a complex trap. So why can't they find protective clothing and sunglasses to protect them in daylight? What do they eat when they're not eating normal survivors? If 98% of the survivors are zombies, that doesn't leave a lot to go around. Why don't they eat each other? Don't zombies taste good? If animals can catch the plague, nocturnal animals should be heavily infected. Where are all the rabid zombie cats and skunks and raccoons? Rabid zombie cats.
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It starts out so promising. Genetic engineering has created a virus that attacks cancer. It has been tried in 10,000 patients. And worked in 10,000 patients. Three years later, New York (and the rest of the world) is a wasteland. The virus mutated, infecting the cancer patients with something akin to rabies. It spreads both by contact and through the air.
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In the growing field of Horror, a number of niche markets have arisen. The zombie sub-genre is an entry popularized by George A. Romero and raised to be a dominant force today due in no small part to The Walking Dead franchise. This type of monster draws on a number of fears most people share, be it a horde of creatures, infectious condition (and the paranoia it sows), and a nigh-unstoppable force (one that doesn’t rest with a hunger that can never be satisfied). In the past, zombies were slow-moving that trekked with a stumbled walk.
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Grimly effective Spanish zombie movie '[REC]' gets the Hollywood treatment in this scene-by-scene remake. 'Quarantine' purports to be the surviving document of what happens when journalist Angela Vidal (Carpenter) and some Los Angeles firefighters become trapped inside an apartment building where a strain of rabies is…
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So three years later Smith spends his days researching a cure, barricading himself against zombies at night, and waiting at South Street Seaport every day at noon in case anyone responds to the radio messages he's broadcasting. He's growing corn in a park and indulging in occasional deer hunting among the herds of deer that prowl Manhattan. Along with lions, presumably escaped from zoos. Presumably Alec has given in to his wild instincts by now and eaten Marty, Melman and Gloria. He (Smith, not Alec, although for all I know maybe Alec has, too) has converted a townhouse into a fortress, hooked up a generator, and rigged up a really spiffy basement lab where he conducts his research.
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While never identified as zombies, the events in the film undoubtedly align closely to the sub-genre (so much so, Quarantine was awarded “Best Zombie Film” in 2009 by the Reaper Awards while that same year at the same award show [?REC] took home “Best Indie/Foreign production”). In addition to zombies, Quarantine also incorporated a relative newcomer to the Horror field in so-called “found footage.” Where Cannibal Holocaust (1980) is often cited as the earliest example of “found footage,” 1999’s The Blair Witch Project made the sub-genre explode but many examples of the technique have felt forced in execution (viewers often wondering why people sporting cameras don’t put them down when danger arises).
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We fill in much of the story from occasional videotapes Smith plays plus the dialogue with Anna. The plague killed 90% of its victims outright and turned 98% of the rest into zombies. And despite Smith's remark about the zombies having lost all traces of humanity, they keep dogs, can set a snare trap, and are now obsessed with him (was the captured zombie the mate of the one who risked daylight? Do zombies have babies?). And thanks to Anna taking him home, now they know where he lives. And they are willing to rip through roofs and walls to get him.
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So Smith is a bit loopy, and obsessed with staying in New York because that's Ground Zero and it's his post. The NSA and CIA in their underground centers, the disease researchers at Fort Detrick, NORAD at Cheyenne Mountain, or the guys at Area 51 couldn't seal themselves off and do even more effective research? We couldn't clear and fortify Bermuda, some of the Bahamas, the Channel Islands, Hawaii, Midway, Guam? And if Vermont were safer because the virus can't tolerate cold, wouldn't much of Canada, Scandinavia or Russia be safe?
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In this movie, 0.2% of the population were immune, meaning about 12 million people globally. In the United States, that would be 600,000 people. Assuming 2 million people in Manhattan, that would mean 4000 survivors. Supposedly the zombies killed almost all of them. How? Couldn't a few hundred Manhattanites contrive an impregnable refuge? Oh, if only there were a small island nearby that could provide protection. We could even put a big statue with an upraised arm on top of it so people would know where it was.
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And just like in 28 Days Later , the end of the world is so cotton pickin' neat . We do see buildings draped in plastic, presumably in a futile attempt to block contagion. But for the most part New Yorkers faced death by parking more neatly than they do in real life. Nobody set fire to skyscrapers just to see them burn. We don't see bullet riddled buildings or looted store windows. Mobs didn't storm police stations.
Quarantine and [?REC] are simply well done, well executed works that deserve the praise they receive. The only aspect regrettable about Quarantine was its sequel (which few are even aware exists), called Quarantine 2: Terminal , which, sadly, was not the Snakes on a Plane of zombie movies likely due in part in having a third the budget of the original. [?REC] , on the other hand, spawned several sequels making it more-or-less Spain’s answer to Paranormal Activity . As in the tradition of big budget sequels, [?
Smith goes out at night with vengeance on his mind and waits for the zombies. He tears his van through them repeatedly but eventually wrecks. Just as the zombies close in, a dazzling flare of light chases them away. Smith comes to in his apartment, to find his rescuers were a woman and a young boy. The woman, Anna, is from Brazil. She had been on a ship full of refugees, but when the ship put into port to gather supplies, the plague infected the ship and she was the only survivor. She heard his radio signals and found him, but said her plan was to go up to Vermont where "God told her" there was a colony of survivors.