I finally got to see the American remake of REC which is QUARENTINE in a special screening here in Manhattan, NYC. I really expected worse, since I have already seen the great original version, REC on which this remake is based on. But I was pleaseantly surprised that this film didn't suck and was for the most part, almost as good as the original. The remake is an almost exact scene by scene copy of the original, but based in Los Angeles than in Barcelona, Spain where the events of the original REC happened. The only major differences in the remake are that there are more tenants than in the original, the cause of the virus is not supernaturally based as in REC, but a mutant strain of rabies; there is no Medieros girl in the climax in the attic but a very skinny and scary man in the attic played by Doug Jones(Hellboy) and the ethnic composition of the tenants in QUARENTINE is different than the one in REC and there are also about three new scary scenes in the remake that are not in REC such as the"elevator" scene. John Erick Dowdle and his brother,did a very good job adapting the original REC's story into the remake and there are some effectively directed scares in the film. My opinion about this fiim is that QUARENTINE is a good remake but not superior to REC, just like THE RING is a good remake of the original Japanese RINGU but not superior to it as well.
Review of Quarantine
