Quarantine (2008)

You know the drill by now. Hollywood buys the rights to a viscerally terrifying foreign horror flick then bowdlerises the life out of it. So it’s pleasing to report that Quarantine, a redux of Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s Spanish shocker [REC], is actually rather good – although, frankly, it would have taken a special kind of idiot to screw this one up.

The set-up remains more or less the same. Perky television reporter Angie (Dexter’s Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman Scott (Steve Harris) are following a late-night fire crew around for a TV show, tagging along with Jake (Jay Hernandez) and Fletcher (John Schaech) to a routine call-out regarding an old lady trapped inside an LA apartment.

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