When we think of mystery, suspense and horror, we think Friday the 13th, House on Haunted Hill, or perhaps SAW comes to mind. However, there is another movie out there now that fits each of those descriptions just as well, and that’s Quarantine.While it may seem slow moving at first, it isn’t long before you are holding onto your seat wondering what will happen next.
While the rest of the world is sleeping, Angela Vidal and her cameraman Scott are assignment covering a night shift of a local Los Angeles fire department. They are assigned to cover the duties of two firemen, and after a rather dull, uneventful evening a 911 distress call comes in which sends them to a small apartment building downtown.
When they arrive, police officers are already on the scene. Turns out the police officers are there in response to horrific screams from a tenant living on the third floor.
Angela discovers she has just stumbled on to something that has the potential for a breaking story; Angela wants it all on tape. They all enter the apartment to investigate exactly what it is that is happening and they find an elderly woman in a nightgown looking very sickly.
When one of the officers tries to approach to help her, she suddenly attacks him, with her teeth. The group is able to subdue her, not realizing that in the end it, it would come back to haunt them. They try desperately to get the officer out of the building for help, but have been sealed in by the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) with no way out.
The story takes off, and is scary, suspenseful, not too mention gory. From one minute to the next no one knows who is safe, who isn’t and what is going to happen to each of them. As the story unravels, the camera is still rolling with every piece of footage imaginable. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what happened inside that building is on the cameraman’s videotape.