MOVIE REVIEW - Quarantine

Well, here we go! Halloween is coming, and let's roll 'em out, the scary movies! Quarantine is hitting lead off, so let's get to it.

Q is a movie made much in the mold of The Blair Witch Project, or Cloverfield. It's the story of an ambitious female TV reporter and her camera man who are on assignment filming a night-in-the-life piece of Los Angeles firemen. About one AM, they are called out on a disturbance at a small apartment complex, where there is trouble. They find an elderly woman, with all kinds of problems, who attacks them like a rabid dog.

But once in this building, there is no escape. The Center For Disease Control seals off the building, and there is no escape. This "rabies" case is then contagious, and all of the residents start devouring each other with brutal attacks and horrific acts of aggression. All of this is being viewed by us, the movie patron, from the vantage point of the TV camera attempting to film the whole bloody affair for later broadcast. Will anyone make it out? Wooooo.....that is the big question here.

First, I will tell you, depending on your tolerance for fear, this movie WILL scare some people big time. This flick is made for young thrill seekers that like a good jolt. The whole time this movie was on, I felt like I was actually at a haunted house. It has that same feel to it. If a 25.00 haunted house is your thing, then maybe a 7.00 movie is a better value in these tough economic times.

If you're over 22, there's probably nothing here for you. Q is targeted young, and will jolt some out of their chairs at times, especially those who have never seen a movie in this format before. The shaky hand-held camera that is giving the illusion that what you are seeing is real, but it's not. To be fair though to the more experienced scary movie viewer, there is nothing new here to be scared about. Same ol' slashing, screaming, fake blood, you know the drill. But for those just staring out....could be a thrill.

Don't ask me who stars in Quarantine, I have no idea, and neither does anyone else. You don't need to be a Hollywood A-lister to slash peoples throats or have yours ripped out. For the right person, or maybe groups of young friends, Quarantine will be a fun beginning to a thrill seeking Saturday night. Oh, by the way, just a little hint - it's not real!