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March 18, 2008

Quarantine, set in L.A., May be the Next Cloverfield

Quarantine to be releassed on 10/17 could be like Cloverfield2
Frames form the next alleged LA based movie, Cloverfield type thriller

Here we go again with the Cloverfield type buzz, but this time, some speculate that this movie is of a Los Angeles setting for the plot. Defamer points out that this latest YouTube viral sensation released Saturday (video embedded below) could easily be suspected as Cloverfield 2 or M. Night Shyamalan's forthcoming Philadelphia disaster flick, The Happening.

Yet, after some sleuthing, they searched through IMDB for movies being released on 10/17 (you see the YouTube clip's I.D. tag?) and found that Sony has a "big mystery-disease horror flick" called Quarantine coming out that day. The movie's plot reads:

Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) 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 crews videotape.

Alright, time to wait seven months! Will it be worth it?

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Please god no! Not another Cloverfield! It's bad enough I got sick watching the fucking movie. (Yeah, yeah I'm one of those people that suffers from motion sickness)

 

Quarantine is a remake of [REC], a Spanish movie from last year. (Seriously, do they really remake films less than a year after they debuted?)

The original is actually pretty goddamn spectacular. Really, genuinely frightening and a whole lot of fun. Obviously, not that original, but I loved it.

I imagine the American remake is going to suck all the awesome from the original.

 
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