the Twisted Family
Quarantine - 2009
Run time: 1 hour 29 mins
A young television reporter and her cameraman cover the night shift at a local fire station for a documentary series. The station receives a call that a woman is trapped in her apartment, so off they go. The woman turns out to be acting very aggressively towards the varied emergency services that break into her flat, with the intention of helping her, and she ends up attacking and biting a policeman.
Before they know it the 'rescue crew' and gathered residents become contained within the building as it is sealed off by the 'CDC', Centres for Disease & Control Prevention. An unknown, but virulent disease is turning people into blood thirsty savages who attack the uninfected as they struggle to escape or hide.
Starring: Jennifer Carpenter (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Dexter), Steve Harris (The Rock, Minority Report), Columbus Short (Stomp the Yard, Whiteout), Jay Hernandez (The Rookie, Hostel)
Brought to us by The Brothers Dowdle (The Poughkeepsie Tapes, Devil)
Twisted Kid:
This looks sooooo cool and scary!
Twisted Teen:
The trailer looks awesome, they are in this apartment block and suddenly all the windows and exits are sealed off and they are trapped!
Twisted Kid:
With the zombies!
Twisted Teen:
Infected humans...
Twisted Man Thing:
I had to put up with your mum watching this and its spanish original last week
Miss Twisted:
It wasn't, its original actually. They were both just different adaptations of the same script
Twisted Man Thing:
Well its all the same really isn't it?!
Miss Twisted:
No not all tall on one hand you've got...
Twisted Teen:
Can we just watch the film please guys?
Miss Twisted:
Ha consider us told!
Twisted Man Thing:
*Yawn* wake me up when it gets to a good bit
This weeks movie was chosen by:
The boys showed great interest in this film when Miss Twisted was working on it for another review project (see 'Comparison Corner' or Miss Twisted's individual profile page). After some serious nagging and creeping (they did the dinner dishes AND tidied the garden!) they got their reward and settled down in the living room with their parents...
1 hour 29 minutes later...
Miss Twisted: Well... What did you thing?
Twisted Kid: Oh wow mum it was creepy! I jumped loads haha!
Twisted Teen: It was a scary one yeah, I jumped a few times and every time the went near a door I was holding my breath!!
Twisted Man Thing: I just hate that shaky camera style of filming. Gives me a headache!
Miss Twisted: Its called a 'mockumentary' anyway, I thought you were going to have a sleep?
Twisted Man Thing: Well I got into it. There's plenty of action considering its just a handful of people in a sealed off building
Twisted Teen: The gore was good too, some of it looked so real!
Miss Twisted: Yeah and there isn't too much of it either. Enough, but not too much.
Twisted Kid: I didn't like how it ended though. Just suddenly with no news about what happened later
Twisted Teen: I don't understand what made me feel so uncomfortable watching it. I was constantly on edge...
Miss Twisted: That called 'good film making' honey! Makes you feel claustrophobic and panicky doesn't it?
Twisted Kid: Yeah like we were there with them!
Miss Twisted: Well I'm glad you guys liked it!
Twisted Kid: Can we put the other one on now?
Twisted Man Thing: What other one?
Miss Twisted: Well we thought you would be asleep so we made plans to watch a second movie...
Twisted Teen: The spanish version Dad, its called Rec.
Twisted Man Thing: Oh we're not are we?!
Twisted Kid: Yep!
Twisted Man Thing: Well I'm not watching the same story twice in one night, but in different languages! Had enough of that last week with your mother and her project.
Twisted Teen: Yeah but only 'cos you can't read the subtitles properly!!
THE TWISTED FAMILY VERDICT:
4/5 - One to keep in the living room!!
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