Sony Pictures has an answer, it seems, to George A. Romero’s “Diary of the Dead.” “Quarantine” follows a TV news reporter (Jennifer Carpenter) embedded with a local fire unit. They are called to assist at an apartment building, and find police already there, answering a call about screams coming from one of the apartments. Before the news team can leave, hey discover that the building has been quarantined to contain an unknown virus, which has hit some members of the community, causing them to attack people.
When the quarantine is lifted, in a moment that is more “Blair Witch” than you’d expect coming from a major motion picture house, rescuers cannot find any resident, and the only evidence left is the tape from the reporter and her camera man. It’s like “The Blair Witch Project” meets “Night of the Living Dead.” In other words, it’s a great deal like “Diary of the Dead,” it would seem, only in an apartment building.
But, in the spirit of “just because it’s derivitive doesn’t mean it will suck,” I’m actually looking forward to seeing what they do with this. (You may remember a certain guilty pleasure I’ve mentioned in the past, regarding zombie flicks.) Anyway, here’s the trailer. It’s pretty vague, plotwise, but, damn, can Jennifer Carpenter scream. Enjoy.
