list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Quarantine on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Quarantine/355497/default.aspx Title: Quarantine
Year: 2008
Director: Drew Dowdle, John E. Dowdle
Plot: Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, and Johnathon Schaech star in this remake of Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's successful, Spanish-language horror film [REC], which follows a television reporter and her cameraman as they fall under a mysterious quarantine issued on an inner-city apartment building. Television reporter Angela Vidal (Carpenter) and her trusty cameraman (Steve Harris) were documenting a night in the life of a Los Angeles fire station crew when the firefighters were summoned to a nearby apartment building to answer a routine 911 call. Upon arriving at the scene, Angela and company discover that police have already arrived to investigate the blood-curdling screams ringing out from one of the apartments. One of the women living in the building has been infected with something terrible, but what? When a few of the other residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape and discover that the CDC has quarantined the building. The officials in charge won't relay any information to those trapped inside the building, and it's impossible to seek information from the outside since telephone, Internet, television, and cell-phone access have all been cut off. By the time the quarantine is lifted, the intrepid cameraman's chilling footage provides the only evidence of the horrors that unfolded on that terrible night. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:47:48 GMTQuarantine2008Drew Dowdle, John E. Dowdle<a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P___290119/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jay Hernandez</a>, <a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P___380226/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jennifer Carpenter</a>, and <a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P___197736/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Johnathon Schaech</a> star in this remake of Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's successful, Spanish-language horror film [REC], which follows a television reporter and her cameraman as they fall under a mysterious quarantine issued on an inner-city apartment building. Television reporter Angela Vidal (Carpenter) and her trusty cameraman (Steve Harris) were documenting a night in the life of a Los Angeles fire station crew when the firefighters were summoned to a nearby apartment building to answer a routine 911 call. Upon arriving at the scene, Angela and company discover that police have already arrived to investigate the blood-curdling screams ringing out from one of the apartments. One of the women living in the building has been infected with something terrible, but what? When a few of the other residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape and discover that the CDC has quarantined the building. The officials in charge won't relay any information to those trapped inside the building, and it's impossible to seek information from the outside since telephone, Internet, television, and cell-phone access have all been cut off. By the time the quarantine is lifted, the intrepid cameraman's chilling footage provides the only evidence of the horrors that unfolded on that terrible night. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide9Taggedy Taggged (6-10)10852http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s355497.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Quarantine/355497/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/dibot/archive/2009/6/13/42637.aspx Post By: dibot
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Post Date: 6/13/2009 2:09:35 PM
Body: Lake Placid 2 is a sad parody of the witty original. the set-up is the same - people are going missing and then getting attacked/eaten on a peaceful Maine lake. Luckily, the filmmakers just gave up and went for the camp, knowing this film could never be taken seriously. But it's not even campy enough to be really good.I really enjoyed The Brothers Bloom, the second feature from writer/director Rian Johnson ("Brick"). In some ways, it feels like a Wes Anderson ("The Drjeeling Limited"), but Johnson has darkness Anderson will never possess. The story follows two con artist brothers through some early exploits and then a "last great heist," because one of the brothers, Adrian Brody ("Cadillac Records") wants out. But he falls for a girl, Rachel Weisz ("Definitely, Maybe") in a contingency that his brother, Mark Ruffalo ("Blindness"), couldn't plan for. Or could he? It's fun, funny, sometimes sad, but always entertaining. Loved it.Looking at the ratings fro Quarantine, they're not very high. This surprises me as I found the film to be a tense, often frightening, entry into the zombie genre. It starts slow as a local reporter, Jennifer Carpenter ("Dexter"), plans to follow some firefighters around for the evening. Almost all shots are from the handheld point-of-view of her cameraman. The early ones establishing the team and the firemen. But as they go to the first call, they find something strange and then are locked in the building by what seems to be the army. Not zombies in the traditional sense, but zombie-esque in the spreading and of the disease and trapping of the victims. Very watchable.Outbreak came on AMC the other day and I thought it would be fun to revisit, because, if there's something I love almost as much as bad horror, it's apocalyptic disaster. A deadly airborne virus pretty much takes out a small town and the army will do almost anything to keep it contained. And cover up where the disease originated. Anyway, the movie is just okay now. Still frightening in it's plausibility. Especially on the heels of this swine flu scare. But the acting is kind of blah. And it does seem to drag on, though the actual running time is only a few minutes over two hours. Not a bad watch, but not as good as I remembered.I watched Calvaire (The Ordeal) a few weeks back and found it seriously disturbing. A singer's van breaks down in some remote woods and he finds shelter at a local inn where he's the only guest. And then things just get super, super, super weird. It's not anything you haven't seen before, it's just the way this is put together. There are moments of silence that make you twitch and long for sound. And then music that just gets under your skin. And then the images, not graphic per se, simply a nightmare you wish you and the main character could escape. This is a film I won't soon forget.
]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:09:35 GMTdibotdibot Blog6/13/2009 2:09:35 PMLake Placid 2 is a sad parody of the witty original. the set-up is the same - people are going missing and then getting attacked/eaten on a peaceful Maine lake. Luckily, the filmmakers just gave up and went for the camp, knowing this film could never be taken seriously. But it's not even campy enough to be really good.I really enjoyed The Brothers Bloom, the second feature from writer/director Rian Johnson ("Brick"). In some ways, it feels like a Wes Anderson ("The Drjeeling Limited"), but Johnson has darkness Anderson will never possess. The story follows two con artist brothers through some early exploits and then a "last great heist," because one of the brothers, Adrian Brody ("Cadillac Records") wants out. But he falls for a girl, Rachel Weisz ("Definitely, Maybe") in a contingency that his brother, Mark Ruffalo ("Blindness"), couldn't plan for. Or could he? It's fun, funny, sometimes sad, but always entertaining. Loved it.Looking at the ratings fro Quarantine, they're not very high. This surprises me as I found the film to be a tense, often frightening, entry into the zombie genre. It starts slow as a local reporter, Jennifer Carpenter ("Dexter"), plans to follow some firefighters around for the evening. Almost all shots are from the handheld point-of-view of her cameraman. The early ones establishing the team and the firemen. But as they go to the first call, they find something strange and then are locked in the building by what seems to be the army. Not zombies in the traditional sense, but zombie-esque in the spreading and of the disease and trapping of the victims. Very watchable.Outbreak came on AMC the other day and I thought it would be fun to revisit, because, if there's something I love almost as much as bad horror, it's apocalyptic disaster. A deadly airborne virus pretty much takes out a small town and the army will do almost anything to keep it contained. And cover up where the disease originated. Anyway, the movie is just okay now. Still frightening in it's plausibility. Especially on the heels of this swine flu scare. But the acting is kind of blah. And it does seem to drag on, though the actual running time is only a few minutes over two hours. Not a bad watch, but not as good as I remembered.I watched Calvaire (The Ordeal) a few weeks back and found it seriously disturbing. A singer's van breaks down in some remote woods and he finds shelter at a local inn where he's the only guest. And then things just get super, super, super weird. It's not anything you haven't seen before, it's just the way this is put together. There are moments of silence that make you twitch and long for sound. And then music that just gets under your skin. And then the images, not graphic per se, simply a nightmare you wish you and the main character could escape. This is a film I won't soon forget. http://www.spout.com/groups/Coming_Soon/Week_of_2_20_fashion_cheerleaders_prison_an/216/40484/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: spout
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Post Date: 2/16/2009 3:10:31 PM
Body: NEW TO THEATRES 2/20 1. Madea Goes to Jail - Watch the trailer. Until today, I thought Tyler Perry's Madea was like a kooky update of Jim Varney's Ernest P. Worrell. (Considering Ernest Goes to Jail, can you blame me?) Then I started looking into Tyler Perry, and even though I don't think his movies are for me, he seems like a really interesting guy. Two quotes from him on Wikipedia really caught my eye: 1) "I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about." 2) "Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that and I was like, You gotta be kiddin' me...God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money." I was impressed to learn that Tyler Perry's been writing plays since he was 18, and according to Wikipedia, by 2005 his plays earned $75 million in ticket sales! Who knew? Madea Goes to Jail itself was a stage play in 2006, and a filmed version has already appeared on DVD. Has anyone seen that? 2. Fired Up - Watch the trailer. Teen comedy, whooooooo! Two randy football players avoid summer football camp by becoming cheerleaders. 3. Eleven Minutes (limited) - Watch the trailer. A documentary about fashion designer Jay McCarroll trying to set up an independently-produced runway show. NEW TO DVD - 2/17 1. Quarantine - Watch the trailer. This one looked pretty thrilling to me. An inner city apartment building is subjected to a government quarantine, but what's infecting the victims? 2. Body of Lies - Watch the trailer. Kevin Buist from FilmCouch saw this and didn't love it. Here's his review. 3. Choke - Watch the trailer. Kevin Buist wasn't crazy about this one either, so maybe he's just a big fuddy-duddy. Listen to his review. 4. Changeling - Watch the trailer. This was getting a lot of Oscars buzz until everyone actually saw it. Oh well, Clint Eastwood made a winner with Gran Torino. 5. High School Musical 3 - Watch the trailer. Well, I'm sure that whatever this movie's supposed to do, it does it well. Does anyone else think 'Corbin Bleu' sounds like a gourmet meal? 6. Righteous Kill - Watch the trailer. Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro are in the same movie for only the third time. Since the first two movies were Godfather Pt. II and Heat, this third time is most definitely not 'a charm.' 7. Midnight Meat Train - Watch the trailer. Here's another dose of Bradley Cooper for everyone who's crushing (or man-crushing) on him from He's Just Not That Into You. Myself, I have a bit of a man-crush on the villain, who's played by tough-as-nails Vinnie Jones. 8. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - Watch the trailer. Simon Pegg starts working for a pompous fashion magazine. Also stars Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Jeff Bridges and Danny Huston -- all people I like. The movie didn't get very good reviews, though... I'm looking forward to Simon Pegg teaming up with Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz) again, and I'm glad he's playing Scotty in the new Star Trek movie.
]]>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:10:31 GMTspoutComing Soon2/16/2009 3:10:31 PMNEW TO THEATRES 2/20 1. Madea Goes to Jail - Watch the trailer. Until today, I thought Tyler Perry's Madea was like a kooky update of Jim Varney's Ernest P. Worrell. (Considering Ernest Goes to Jail, can you blame me?) Then I started looking into Tyler Perry, and even though I don't think his movies are for me, he seems like a really interesting guy. Two quotes from him on Wikipedia really caught my eye: 1) "I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about." 2) "Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that and I was like, You gotta be kiddin' me...God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money." I was impressed to learn that Tyler Perry's been writing plays since he was 18, and according to Wikipedia, by 2005 his plays earned $75 million in ticket sales! Who knew? Madea Goes to Jail itself was a stage play in 2006, and a filmed version has already appeared on DVD. Has anyone seen that? 2. Fired Up - Watch the trailer. Teen comedy, whooooooo! Two randy football players avoid summer football camp by becoming cheerleaders. 3. Eleven Minutes (limited) - Watch the trailer. A documentary about fashion designer Jay McCarroll trying to set up an independently-produced runway show. NEW TO DVD - 2/17 1. Quarantine - Watch the trailer. This one looked pretty thrilling to me. An inner city apartment building is subjected to a government quarantine, but what's infecting the victims? 2. Body of Lies - Watch the trailer. Kevin Buist from FilmCouch saw this and didn't love it. Here's his review. 3. Choke - Watch the trailer. Kevin Buist wasn't crazy about this one either, so maybe he's just a big fuddy-duddy. Listen to his review. 4. Changeling - Watch the trailer. This was getting a lot of Oscars buzz until everyone actually saw it. Oh well, Clint Eastwood made a winner with Gran Torino. 5. High School Musical 3 - Watch the trailer. Well, I'm sure that whatever this movie's supposed to do, it does it well. Does anyone else think 'Corbin Bleu' sounds like a gourmet meal? 6. Righteous Kill - Watch the trailer. Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro are in the same movie for only the third time. Since the first two movies were Godfather Pt. II and Heat, this third time is most definitely not 'a charm.' 7. Midnight Meat Train - Watch the trailer. Here's another dose of Bradley Cooper for everyone who's crushing (or man-crushing) on him from He's Just Not That Into You. Myself, I have a bit of a man-crush on the villain, who's played by tough-as-nails Vinnie Jones. 8. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - Watch the trailer. Simon Pegg starts working for a pompous fashion magazine. Also stars Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Jeff Bridges and Danny Huston -- all people I like. The movie didn't get very good reviews, though... I'm looking forward to Simon Pegg teaming up with Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz) again, and I'm glad he's playing Scotty in the new Star Trek movie. http://www.spout.com/blogs/usesoap/archive/2008/12/31/38998.aspx Post By: usesoap
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Post Date: 12/31/2008 1:31:21 PM
Body: Who are these people?" is what I repeatedly asked myself when perusing the press release pages of accolades bestowed on the British thriller, Diary of a Bad Lad. Chris Bernard called it “Absolutely superb...and completely inspiring” across the top of the promotional materials. Who is Chris Bernard? Good question, since the press packet did not attribute his name to anything. According to “the Google,” he's either a model from Lexington, Kentucky, a married software designer from Chicago, the author of Drop Shipping Sucks, or the founder of the Las Vegas Institute of Noetic Sciences Chapter. And as insightful as any of those Chris Bernards may be about film, I am not sure how much I trust their and value their opinions. Perhaps it's time to rethink my credentials as a paid film critic, but color me bored. I just could not enter the groove that Diary of a Bad Lad was trying to create. It unfurls as yet another 'found footage' pic, supposedly spliced together from more than 30 hours of "investigative footage". What I watched looked more like outtakes cobbled together from Guy Ritchie test reels. The faux documentary format is often the blessing for the first-time filmmaker and the curse for the audience. To Bad Lad's credit, it was apparently completed a number of years ago, placing it pre-Cloverfield and Qurantine. But that does not excuse it from the sheer lack of narrative focus and complete slight of character development. From what I am able to ascertain, Barry Lick (played by Jonathan Williams), a swarthy film professor, hires a gaggle of his students to help him film a drug deal that ultimately goes sour. Instead of high-tailing it out of Dodge, he claims that he wants to capture the gritty realism of the proceedings and demands they keep shooting — even as they dispose of a dead body and consume copious illegal substances themselves. It's one thing to film an event as it unfolds; it's quite another when you yourself are committing said crime, implicating yourself in the process. It is exactly this little narrative nugget that kept me from investing my interest in any of the characters or events of Lad. Then, there are artistic flourishes which completely remove the viewer from the documentary aesthetic it tries so hard to create. During more than one scene, the characters are seen snorting drugs and the director alters the film's soundtrack, which is supposed to emulate the character's high, but moves it completely out of the realm of documentary. Then there is the dilemma of whacking through the thicket of accents, and I watch a lot of British TV and film. I am never one to protest reading subtitles, and I'll even take the time to look up cultural-specific witticisms, but Lad's amateur recording devices made it near impossible for the outsider to even decipher what was being said at times, much less extract any meaning from it. Some scenes tended to go on forever, such as the amateur 'porn footage' that begins as amusingly playful, but drags on into tedium after five minutes or so. It's commendable on a sheerly artistic level, thanks to director Michael Booth, but perhaps a little too impressed with itself, soaking in some of the bells and whistles of Apple's home filmmaking programs — a grainy filter here, a color drain there. It does all this at the expense of character development. Too often, the film feels like outtakes from a film, with various seedy sorts mingling without purpose or direction. And while the actors involved are all first-timers, they fail to pull off the naturalism that is required for a film that is supposed to appear more real than a staged theatrical picture. Director Booth has obviously paid attention in film class when they covered the chapter on visual effects, but must have dozed off during the lecture on character. This is one Diary that perhaps should have remained under lock and key.
]]>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:31:21 GMTusesoapusesoap Blog12/31/2008 1:31:21 PMWho are these people?" is what I repeatedly asked myself when perusing the press release pages of accolades bestowed on the British thriller, Diary of a Bad Lad. Chris Bernard called it &ldquo;Absolutely superb...and completely inspiring&rdquo; across the top of the promotional materials. Who is Chris Bernard? Good question, since the press packet did not attribute his name to anything. According to &ldquo;the Google,&rdquo; he's either a model from Lexington, Kentucky, a married software designer from Chicago, the author of Drop Shipping Sucks, or the founder of the Las Vegas Institute of Noetic Sciences Chapter. And as insightful as any of those Chris Bernards may be about film, I am not sure how much I trust their and value their opinions. Perhaps it's time to rethink my credentials as a paid film critic, but color me bored. I just could not enter the groove that Diary of a Bad Lad was trying to create. It unfurls as yet another 'found footage' pic, supposedly spliced together from more than 30 hours of "investigative footage". What I watched looked more like outtakes cobbled together from Guy Ritchie test reels. The faux documentary format is often the blessing for the first-time filmmaker and the curse for the audience. To Bad Lad's credit, it was apparently completed a number of years ago, placing it pre-Cloverfield and Qurantine. But that does not excuse it from the sheer lack of narrative focus and complete slight of character development. From what I am able to ascertain, Barry Lick (played by Jonathan Williams), a swarthy film professor, hires a gaggle of his students to help him film a drug deal that ultimately goes sour. Instead of high-tailing it out of Dodge, he claims that he wants to capture the gritty realism of the proceedings and demands they keep shooting &mdash; even as they dispose of a dead body and consume copious illegal substances themselves. It's one thing to film an event as it unfolds; it's quite another when you yourself are committing said crime, implicating yourself in the process. It is exactly this little narrative nugget that kept me from investing my interest in any of the characters or events of Lad. Then, there are artistic flourishes which completely remove the viewer from the documentary aesthetic it tries so hard to create. During more than one scene, the characters are seen snorting drugs and the director alters the film's soundtrack, which is supposed to emulate the character's high, but moves it completely out of the realm of documentary. Then there is the dilemma of whacking through the thicket of accents, and I watch a lot of British TV and film. I am never one to protest reading subtitles, and I'll even take the time to look up cultural-specific witticisms, but Lad's amateur recording devices made it near impossible for the outsider to even decipher what was being said at times, much less extract any meaning from it. Some scenes tended to go on forever, such as the amateur 'porn footage' that begins as amusingly playful, but drags on into tedium after five minutes or so. It's commendable on a sheerly artistic level, thanks to director Michael Booth, but perhaps a little too impressed with itself, soaking in some of the bells and whistles of Apple's home filmmaking programs &mdash; a grainy filter here, a color drain there. It does all this at the expense of character development. Too often, the film feels like outtakes from a film, with various seedy sorts mingling without purpose or direction. And while the actors involved are all first-timers, they fail to pull off the naturalism that is required for a film that is supposed to appear more real than a staged theatrical picture. Director Booth has obviously paid attention in film class when they covered the chapter on visual effects, but must have dozed off during the lecture on character. This is one Diary that perhaps should have remained under lock and key. http://www.spout.com/blogs/himanshu9632/archive/2008/11/7/37044.aspx Post By: himanshu9632
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Post Date: 11/7/2008 12:14:42 AM
Body: Quarantine, yet another pseudo-documentary horror movie, In some ways 'Quarantine' is better than 'Rec,' not only xeroxing all its shocks but managing to add more. For more review & and wallpaper click the link:- http://movies.iexplorehere.com/review/780/Quarantine.html
]]>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:14:42 GMThimanshu9632himanshu9632 Blog11/7/2008 12:14:42 AM Quarantine, yet another pseudo-documentary horror movie, In some ways 'Quarantine' is better than 'Rec,' not only xeroxing all its shocks but managing to add more. For more review &amp; and wallpaper click the link:- http://movies.iexplorehere.com/review/780/Quarantine.html http://www.spout.com/blogs/himanshu9632/archive/2008/11/7/37043.aspx Post By: himanshu9632
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Post Date: 11/7/2008 12:12:50 AM
Body: Quarantine, yet another pseudo-documentary horror movie, In some ways 'Quarantine' is better than 'Rec,' not only xeroxing all its shocks but managing to add more. For more review & and wallpaper click the link:- http://movies.iexplorehere.com/review/780/Quarantine.html
]]>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:12:50 GMThimanshu9632himanshu9632 Blog11/7/2008 12:12:50 AM Quarantine, yet another pseudo-documentary horror movie, In some ways 'Quarantine' is better than 'Rec,' not only xeroxing all its shocks but managing to add more. For more review &amp; and wallpaper click the link:- http://movies.iexplorehere.com/review/780/Quarantine.html http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_Best_Horror_film_so_far_this_year/222/36926/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: mciocco
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Post Date: 11/3/2008 11:27:53 PM
Body: Let the Right One In starts playing in Philly next week, and I can't wait to see this movie. I've heard nothing but raves. I can only hope that high expectations don't ruin it for me:p As for foreign remakes where folks don't know about the originals that aren't Asian, I believe the recent Quarantine was a remake of the Spanish film Rec. This probably doesn't count, but half the kills from Mario Bava's Bay of Blood were appropriated for Friday the 13th (and I believe the initial sequel too). Bava's Planet of the Vampires also bears a striking resemblance to the original Alien in terms of basic plot (though I think Alien is by far the superior film). Neither of those really counts, but it's interesting when you find these original influential movies.
]]>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:27:53 GMTmcioccoHORROR MOVIES 10111/3/2008 11:27:53 PMLet the Right One In starts playing in Philly next week, and I can't wait to see this movie. I've heard nothing but raves. I can only hope that high expectations don't ruin it for me:p As for foreign remakes where folks don't know about the originals that aren't Asian, I believe the recent Quarantine was a remake of the Spanish film Rec. This probably doesn't count, but half the kills from Mario Bava's Bay of Blood were appropriated for Friday the 13th (and I believe the initial sequel too). Bava's Planet of the Vampires also bears a striking resemblance to the original Alien in terms of basic plot (though I think Alien is by far the superior film). Neither of those really counts, but it's interesting when you find these original influential movies. http://www.spout.com/blogs/alienpruts/archive/2008/11/1/36873.aspx Post By: Alienpruts
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Post Date: 11/1/2008 2:36:22 PM
Body: This was film nr. 2 to be played at a Halloween-night showing at my cinema complex, and it sure had to lighten the mood up a bit, because of the failure of the first movie (The Broken). Story-wise, this is a straightforward case. A camera-team does a report on the Los Angeles Fire Dept. and tails two men. First we have 20 minutes of shooting the firefighters themselves, before the real action starts. The Fire Dept. gets called to an apartment building for some obscure medical reason, only to find an elderly woman who seems to be "out of it" and start attacking everybody in sight. To make matters worse, the building gets quarantined by Police, CDC, and a bunch of other federal agencies. Stuck inside, the residents try to survive.... The whole movie I've been watching with dubious feelings : on one hand I had a "Already been there, done that" feeling, as the camera work reminded us all greatly of "The Blair Witch Project" and more recently "Cloverfield", on the other hand this movie did exactly what it was supposed to do : scare it's audience. The first 20 minutes of this film was apparantly meant to lull us into sleep, so that when the action (finally) started we would be genuinely surprised. That's THE one bit of the film I liked the most, so the rest of the movie had to do it's very best to keep that interest level, and it failed... Don't get me wrong, this movie is certainly worth it, but it has al been done before : Zombie flicks, the whole "camera taping all events" thingy and the human nature of survivalism falling apart are all traits long been exhausted in other films.... There was nothing new to note in this movie, which was a real shame....
]]>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:36:22 GMTAlienprutsAlienpruts Blog11/1/2008 2:36:22 PMThis was film nr. 2 to be played at a Halloween-night showing at my cinema complex, and it sure had to lighten the mood up a bit, because of the failure of the first movie (The Broken). Story-wise, this is a straightforward case. A camera-team does a report on the Los Angeles Fire Dept. and tails two men. First we have 20 minutes of shooting the firefighters themselves, before the real action starts. The Fire Dept. gets called to an apartment building for some obscure medical reason, only to find an elderly woman who seems to be "out of it" and start attacking everybody in sight. To make matters worse, the building gets quarantined by Police, CDC, and a bunch of other federal agencies. Stuck inside, the residents try to survive.... The whole movie I've been watching with dubious feelings : on one hand I had a "Already been there, done that" feeling, as the camera work reminded us all greatly of "The Blair Witch Project" and more recently "Cloverfield", on the other hand this movie did exactly what it was supposed to do : scare it's audience. The first 20 minutes of this film was apparantly meant to lull us into sleep, so that when the action (finally) started we would be genuinely surprised. That's THE one bit of the film I liked the most, so the rest of the movie had to do it's very best to keep that interest level, and it failed... Don't get me wrong, this movie is certainly worth it, but it has al been done before : Zombie flicks, the whole "camera taping all events" thingy and the human nature of survivalism falling apart are all traits long been exhausted in other films.... There was nothing new to note in this movie, which was a real shame.... http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_So_Bad_They_re_Good/222/36684/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: indieabby88
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Post Date: 10/26/2008 7:10:59 PM
Body: Now, I would say "Troll 2," but that's not so bad it's good. It's just straight up bad. The only thing enjoyable about is the jokes you make it its expense. But I do still have a contender: "Quarantine" which came out a couple of weeks ago. I saw it in a crowded theater and had a total blast. The movie itself is pretty poor (no character development, goofy and gratuitous amounts of gore and violence) but it's pretty damn funny, and the buckets of blood that get sprayed in that movie are awesomely bad. All the jumpiness and nasty bits that I loved in "The Mist" without most of the human drama.
]]>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:10:59 GMTindieabby88HORROR MOVIES 10110/26/2008 7:10:59 PMNow, I would say "Troll 2," but that's not so bad it's good. It's just straight up bad. The only thing enjoyable about is the jokes you make it its expense. But I do still have a contender: "Quarantine" which came out a couple of weeks ago. I saw it in a crowded theater and had a total blast. The movie itself is pretty poor (no character development, goofy and gratuitous amounts of gore and violence) but it's pretty damn funny, and the buckets of blood that get sprayed in that movie are awesomely bad. All the jumpiness and nasty bits that I loved in "The Mist" without most of the human drama. http://www.spout.com/groups/Friends_of_Foreign_Flicks/Re_Screaming_in_Spanish_Foreign_horror_films/591/36682/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: indieabby88
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Post Date: 10/26/2008 6:45:11 PM
Body: Has anyone watched REC (or whatever the hell it's called)? I saw Quarantine (the American version) a couple of weeks ago and had a good time. I hear the original is pretty off the chain. Anyone care to comment?
]]>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:45:11 GMTindieabby88Friends of Foreign Flicks10/26/2008 6:45:11 PMHas anyone watched REC (or whatever the hell it's called)? I saw Quarantine (the American version) a couple of weeks ago and had a good time. I hear the original is pretty off the chain. Anyone care to comment? http://www.spout.com/blogs/sergei/archive/2008/10/22/36585.aspx Post By: Sergei
Post To: Sergei Blog
Post Date: 10/22/2008 4:53:57 PM
Body: I have watched many movies in theaters, and even when , for some reason, these movies weren't great at all, i always would sit there till the very end. This 'movie' was my ever first experience when i left just after 30-40 mins. of watching it. It literaly made me wanna throw up right in there. This was supposed to be a horror movie, as it appeared, it wasn't that scarry, but what really horrified me is the camera work. While watching it I really hopped and thought: well, it's gonna shake for another 5 mins and then the camera will stabilize, and another 5 mins, and another; it just never happened, it kept jiggling and shaking like crazy. In my mind i imagined 5 year old kid holding that damn camera and shooting it all. From time to time i would close my eyes just not to get dizzy, then opened for a sec and closed again. So that was my always-fun- movie-going-experience that i don't want to repeat any time soon. And while on the way home, I realized that I was pissed off not only cause i wasted $20, but I came to a conclusion that many of nowadays blockbusters and these super mega box-office hits are mostly concentrated on their camera work and cutting edge shooting technologies, but they forget about the hole idea and plot of the movie. Honestly, I dont really wanna "feel like I'm inside of it with this super dolby surrounding sound and picture", I'm just craving to see a very interesting movie with a great narration, where everything is coherent and clear, like good-old Forrest Gump, or even The jugement day,etc. Hope we'll get nice movies in future.
]]>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:53:57 GMTSergeiSergei Blog10/22/2008 4:53:57 PMI have watched many movies in theaters, and even when , for some reason, these movies weren't great at all, i always would sit there till the very end. This 'movie' was my ever first experience when i left just after 30-40 mins. of watching it. It literaly made me wanna throw up right in there. This was supposed to be a horror movie, as it appeared, it wasn't that scarry, but what really horrified me is the camera work. While watching it I really hopped and thought: well, it's gonna shake for another 5 mins and then the camera will stabilize, and another 5 mins, and another; it just never happened, it kept jiggling and shaking like crazy. In my mind i imagined 5 year old kid holding that damn camera and shooting it all. From time to time i would close my eyes just not to get dizzy, then opened for a sec and closed again. So that was my always-fun- movie-going-experience that i don't want to repeat any time soon. And while on the way home, I realized that I was pissed off not only cause i wasted $20, but I came to a conclusion that many of nowadays blockbusters and these super mega box-office hits are mostly concentrated on their camera work and cutting edge shooting technologies, but they forget about the hole idea and plot of the movie. Honestly, I dont really wanna "feel like I'm inside of it with this super dolby surrounding sound and picture", I'm just craving to see a very interesting movie with a great narration, where everything is coherent and clear, like good-old Forrest Gump, or even The jugement day,etc. Hope we'll get nice movies in future. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Zombies/MemberTagFilms.aspxZombies
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