Quarantine Page #4

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
1,296 Views


- Make a quick right.

Make a quick right, baby.

Just jump in the back.

- Jump in.

- Buckle up.

- We're almost in.

- You guys in?

- Yep, yep, yep.

- Yep?

Nice job.

What kind of call is this?

Probably just a medical.

- Okay.

- We'll find out when we get there.

You seem to have kept shooting.

Ready?

Ready, set. Ready, set.

Okay, good.

Most little girls wanna be ballerinas

or princesses when they grow up.

I used to tell my mom, "Someday,

I'm gonna grow up and be a fireman."

Tonight, I am truly living the dream.

It's so loud,

I don't think we can use any of it.

Scott, I am still living the dream.

Thirty-seventeen, go ahead.

All right, we got a eight at 3 o'clock.

Keep calling out numbers.

What are you doing?

Well, Jake's the engineer.

He's actually

a third-generation engineer...

...but I have the most important job.

Navigating?

No,

I'm in charge of the chick-o-meter.

When I see a girl, I rate them.

So if I say

there's a eight at 3 o'clock...

...the guys know

they better look to the right.

You know, it's really funny. I always

thought firemen were so dignified.

Oh, no, no.

I signed up for brave and courageous.

- I don't do dignified.

- Yeah, I think we get that by now.

I see a nine at 2.

- Oh, we got a nine at 2.

- Yeah.

Whoa, that's a dude.

It's called a chick-o-meter,

not a dick-o-meter.

I think we're good.

You're fired. You can't talk anymore.

So where do you think

the problem is?

Do you think it's over there,

around the corner?

Or maybe around there?

You're rotten, you know that?

To the core, baby. To the core.

What are you taking with you?

Tools.

Really anything we might need

to break a lock or open a door.

- You're the one who called this in?

- Yeah.

Come, follow me.

Look at Probie's new turnouts.

I didn't know

they made them that new.

We're almost to the building.

Police are here. Might be more

serious than we thought.

Probably not.

A woman was screaming

bloody murder up there.

- It's Mrs. Espinoza.

- Two cops are up there.

- When did they get here?

- Five minutes ago.

- What's that sound?

- Sound of the building.

It's very old.

- He insists on fixing everything.

- Wanda, please.

- What apartment number?

- It's up here.

- Go back to your apartments.

- We heard screams.

Well, at least get out of the way.

- Are they with you?

- Yeah. They're shadowing us.

Then they're your responsibility.

I tell you not to film something,

don't film it.

- I tell you to get lost, you get lost.

- No problem.

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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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