Episode 345: Quarantine (2008)

The Spanish team behind REC would have us hate the Americanized version of their movie, but that dog won't hunt, Monsignor. Much like #Alive and Final Days and Let the Right one In and Let me In, I feel the 2008 US remake of the Spanish game changing REC of the year before deserves a chance.

I am a glass half full reviewer and know that his has a decent cast, with Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, a young Joey King, Johnathon Schaech and Gregory Germann, Bernard White, Rade Šerbedžija and Doug Jones sliding into the ill-fitting soiled painties of the monster at the end. It will have FX and tension on par with the original. It just isn't the original.

The ending does change, and it actually makes more sense, if you are no a fan of possession stories, but the rest is pretty much the same. I think some of the scenes they added add to the story, the brain drill for example, Randy the asshole and the dog, but I can's score it as high as REC as it just isn't original.

Still worth a watch at 6/10. REC (7/10), REC2, REC: GENESIS, REC:APOCALYPSE, QUARANTINE and QUARANTINE 2:TERMINAL (6/10)

and now this frees me up to watch this weekends diabolical DVD offering The STINK OF FLESH.