I didn’t get to visit SDCC Panel for QUARANTINE but via IGN, here’s the red band trailer for the horror remake. I’ve seen the original Spanish movie, REC, and so far, judging from this trailer, this new version looks exactly the same but now it’s in English, that’s all the difference.
Just like any other horror trailer in recent years, it always has some sort of narration like “the story’s based on true events” or “the government denies any knowledge of it ever took place” or “they were never heard from ever again”
Do you think this method of having the feel like it has actually happened in real life before would make the movie seem even scarier?
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 crew’s videotape.
QUARANTINE opens October 10th, 2008
I actually think it’s a possibility this story is partly true.
Demons do exist.
I read on Yahoo! answers that an event just like the one in the movie did happen back in March of 2006, in an apartment building in North Hollywood, CA. There was a woman who got infected with rabies by a pet she had and didn’t have it checked out. By the time the firefighters and offcials found her she was already in the late stages. Some of the tenants did get killed and they quarantined the whole apartment building. It wasn’t released on the news because officials didn’t want a mass panic.
I find that hard to believe because the movie itself is a remake of a Spanish horror movie of the same storyline and title.
So how is it that it could happen in Hollywood but all of a sudden it got made into a Spanish movie first?