2008 · horror · sci-fi · thriller
Quarantine
Directed by John Erick Dowdle1h 29m2008
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Our read: Quarantine (2008) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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“You want claustrophobic found-footage outbreak horror that never lets you breathe.”
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