Quarantine

**SPOILER ALERT**

I'm really glad I went to see the new "Zombie movie", Quarantine. I put 'zombie movie' in quotes because it's not so much a zombie movie as it is a movie about people turned into flesh-craving animals by an unknown disease. For all intents and purposes, the infected people in this movie are zombies.

So, first off, this movie is a shot-for-shot remake of a Spanish movie, 'Rec'. The American version features Jennifer Carpenter and Steve Harris as an entertainment reporter and a cameraman, respectively, who are assigned to follow some firefighters around for a segment on some teevee show. Sure enough, what begins as a simple puff piece quickly turns into a hellish descent into survival horror.

This movie does a lot of things right. It begins quickly, with no credits at the start, no hokey writeups about 'lost footage now recovered'. We are introduced immediately to Angela, the reporter, on camera, doing her intro for the piece outside the fire hall. From here on out, the movie unfolds from the perspective of Scott's camerawork.

The camera perspective brings obvious parallels to Blair Witch and more recently, Cloverfield, but there was only one or two parts in this movie when I thought, "Why the hell don't they put the camera down already?" At one point, the camera is used to bludgeon one of the infected to death, and the effect is remarkable.

I haven't been impressed by an American horror movie in a long time, but Quarantine definitely keeps the faith alive. And like any good zombie movie, this one ends in the perfect way. Everyone dies.