Quarantine 2008

Critics score:
58 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Quarantine, yet another pseudo-documentary horror movie, delivers the heebie-jeebies with solid acting and perfectly calibrated shocks. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Quarantine feels awfully familiar, and it grows less convincing with each passing moment. At its worst, it abandons realism entirely and flirts with gory kitsch. Read more

Michael Hardy, Boston Globe: I have seen many execrable films -- Plan 9 From Outer Space, Disaster Movie, Batman & Robin -- but never has a movie made me so physically ill. Read more

Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly: Quarantine director John Erick Dowdle and co-writing brother Drew wisely stick close to the told-from-the-cameraman's point-of-view template of the terrific original. Read more

Jim Ridley, L.A. Weekly: Even those who despise remakes will have to admit that director John Erick Dowdle's furious retread is scary as hell. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: No, the script isn't anything special and the novelty long ago wore off in this style of movie making. But the execution in this film from John Erick Dowdle is amazing, the camera work and cutting perfect. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Quarantine fails to correct some of the problems evident in its predecessor while also incorporating a few defects of its own. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Give Quarantine credit: Without resorting to computer-generated monsters or supernatural explanations, it uses consistent logic and confinement to find new ways of being scary. Read more

Tony Wong, Toronto Star: Quarantine is based on the 2007 Spanish thriller [REC]. Like any imitation, the quality's not as good, but this is about cheap thrills, of which there are not enough. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: An American remake of the Spanish horror movie '[Rec]' that adopts the same basic recipe, but removes any hint of flavour or texture, reducing cutting-edge Catalan cuisine to bland, bite-sized McNuggets. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Quarantine is a modestly inventive, sporadically exciting thriller that nonetheless proves too faithful to its central conceit for its own good. Read more