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?
