Quarantine Page #2

Synopsis: A television reporter 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 already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director(s): John Erick Dowdle
Production: Screen Gems
  6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
59%
R
Year:
2008
89 min
$31,691,811
Website
1,294 Views


were horse-drawn.

Now they're used as mascots.

But what they're trained to do

is run in and stop the traffic.

- Kind of like Fletch.

- Yeah.

That's what I do, I run out there.

Sort of like what a siren does today.

Okay, well, Wilshire can show you

what to do in case you catch on fire.

- Stop, drop and roll.

- Yeah.

So let's just pretend

you're 5 years old and on fire.

- I'm on fire.

- Wilshire's gonna teach you.

Tell me what to do.

Okay. Wilshire.

Wilshire, mark. Stay.

Wilshire, drop.

Drop. Drop.

Wilshire, roll.

Wilshire, roll.

- Good.

- Look at that.

Good boy. Good boy.

- I'm gonna live.

- Report.

You're not gonna be on fire.

So it's stop, drop and roll,

in case you catch on fire. Wilshire.

- Yeah, you know, have some fun.

- You all hang out a lot?

- Yeah.

- You kind of live together.

Yeah, we definitely live together.

Close quarters.

- Okay, good.

- Oh, ready?

So yeah, we have 48-hour shifts...

...so we have everything

we need in this place...

...from, you know,

a small gym to this handball court.

I'll show it to you.

- It's nice, right?

- Yeah.

Sir, you got a call on the office line.

Can you pick up a call

on the office line?

Non-responder.

- Oh, shoot.

- Yeah.

- I was hoping we'd get a call.

- Yeah.

Not a big one, a little call

so we can see action.

- Exciting, I guess.

- Yeah.

Gotta be annoying

when trying to finish a game.

Not if you're losing.

Every time, you know,

we go respond to a call...

...the points reset.

Depending on which side you're on,

it's sort of nice.

Works in your favor

from time to time?

Not in my favor.

What are you talking about?

I never lose.

I think I'd roller-skate

if I had access to this.

I can see you doing that. Yeah.

Okay, so this is where the men

store their boots and turnouts.

The pole hole is over here.

- The pole hole.

- Yeah, interesting name, I know.

- You got the locker room here.

- Yep.

You got the dorms here.

Our viewers

always like to see action...

...so maybe we should go

into the locker room.

- Let's go in the locker room.

- You got it.

- Right this way.

- I was kidding, I was kidding.

Okay, towel up, guys.

We got a female on deck.

- Female on the deck.

- Oh, my God.

That's Griffin.

He can't sing very well.

He's got one major talent,

so come this way.

- He's got a huge talent.

- We're not using this.

Here. We have different hoses at

the station, and this is the Griffin hose.

- Griffin hose.

- What the hell?

You know,

I hope that's a wide-angle lens.

Oh, my God.

Stay in there.

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John Erick Dowdle

John Erick Dowdle (born December 1973) is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for horror films. He usually works with his brother Drew Dowdle as a producer and co-screenwriter. more…

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