Quarantine
Film by John Erick Dowdle · Released 2008
Quarantine is a 2008 found footage zombie film directed and co-written by John Erick Dowdle, produced by Sergio Aguero, Doug Davison, and Roy Lee, and co-written by Drew Dowdle. The film stars Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Greg Germann, Steve Harris, Dania Ramirez, Rade Šerbedžija, and Johnathon Schaech. A remake of the 2007 Spanish film Rec, it follows a reporter and her cameraman assigned to a pair of Los Angeles firemen who follow a distress call to an apartment building where they discover a deadly mutated strain of rabies spreading among the building's occupants; escape becomes impossible once the government descends upon the building to prevent the virus from spreading beyond it, and the pair continue to record the events that unfold inside, of which the film itself is the result. Quarantine features no actual musical score, using only sound effects, and differs in its characters, dialogue, and explanation of the virus from its source material.
Cast ages when filming began (January 2008)
- Jennifer Carpenter, as Angela Vidal: 28
- Johnathon Schaech, as George Fletcher: 38
- Columbus Short, as Danny Wilensky: 25
- Jay Hernandez, as Jake: 29
- Marin Hinkle, as Kathy: 41
- Rade Šerbedžija, as Yuri Ivanov: 61
- Greg Germann, as Lawrence: 49
- Denis O'Hare, as Randy: 45–46
- Dania Ramirez, as Sadie: 28
- Steve Harris, as Scott Percival: 42
- Andrew Fiscella, as James McCreedy: 41
- Bernard White, as Bernard: 48
- Joey King, as Briana: 8