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53 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Clark Collis
    83
    Quarantine director John Erick Dowdle and co-writing brother Drew wisely stick close to the told-from-the-cameraman's point-of-view template of the terrific original, though they add a few fine flourishes.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Jeremy Wheeler
    75
    Claustrophobic, jittery at times, and electric in pace, Quarantine is a stripped-down bloody thrill ride that -- while certainly not catering to everyone's tastes -- should satisfy gore-hounds looking to step up their theatrical horror cuisine beyond the usual creepy little kid rehashes.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jim Ridley
    70
    It's a shame that this English-language cover of an excellent Spanish shocker will eclipse the original, at least in U.S. theaters -- but even those who despise remakes will have to admit that director John Erick Dowdle's furious retread is scary as hell.
  4. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    63
    Give Quarantine credit: Without resorting to computer-generated monsters or supernatural explanations, it uses consistent logic and confinement to find new ways of being scary.
  5. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Scott Mendelson
    60
    Worth seeing for its solid first two acts, some terrific acting by some favorite character actors, and a several solid spook-show scares.
  6. Empire
    Reviewed by: Simon Crook
    60
    As a visceral, camera-shuddery ride into foamy-mouthed zombie hell, it's efficient enough -- but if you've already seen [Rec], steer clear...
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    60
    The template is familiar, but Quarantine delivers the heebie-jeebies with solid acting and perfectly calibrated shocks.
  8. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    58
    Dowdle manages a few nice shocks and some neat moments of pitch-black gallows humor, but Quarantine nevertheless feels awfully familiar, and it grows less convincing with each passing moment. At its worst, it abandons realism entirely and flirts with gory kitsch.
  9. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    50
    Oh, "Blair Witch," what hath thou wrought? It has taken less than a decade, but the concept of horror films filmed documentary-style has officially become a tiresome cliche.
  10. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    50
    It's easily the weakest entry into this ever-expanding category and is inferior to its subtitled source material. Quarantine implies "stay away" and that's not bad advice.
  11. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Michael Ordona
    50
    Shame as well upon the advance marketing department for blowing the end of the movie in ads, thus exorcising any ghost of a chance Quarantine had of issuing a surprise.
  12. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    50
    A modestly inventive, sporadically exciting thriller that nonetheless proves too faithful to its central conceit for its own good.
  13. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    40
    Quarantine is a one-note nightmare, nicely pitched to the high-C howls of the bitten and the biters but offering considerably less froth than last year's "The Signal," which mined similar nightmares with far more fulsome results.
  14. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Michael Hardy
    12
    Like "Blair Witch," Quarantine uses the conceit of a movie-within-a-movie to give documentary immediacy to its assorted grotesqueries.
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5.8 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 89 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 45
  3. Negative: 17 out of 45
  1. grandpajoe6191
    4
    They might as well change the title "Quarantine" into "[REC] 2.5".
  2. AaronK.
    8
    Scary movie not the greatest movie but good enough to go with your friends and leave satisfied and freaked.
  3. Spielberg00
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. Bottom Line: So-so remake of a great foreign film. Actually, it’s like a copy. An American remake of the 2007 Spanish cult-horror film [REC], this film isn’t much new. Especially if you are a horror fan. QUARANTINE takes the “found footage” sub-genre (the informal name used to describe movies filmed without professional equipment and camerawork in order to make the horror seem more realistic, such as in PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT), and it grotesque-ifies it, leaving little fluid to the imagination of the viewer. It’s like if in the last scene of the first PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, Katie had shouted, “Micah! Get the camera! Bring it down! Zoom in! Let them all see the demon bloody me up!”, rather than making it eerier by just leaving it off-camera. In my opinion, showing the blood and all totally destroys the “found footage” sub-genre. Why? It’s now been officially established that the two main points for the sub-genre are two a) enhance the realism, and b) imply 90% of all the stuff that isn’t left to imagine in SAW. Think of it: SAW isn’t a scary movie. It aims to gross out, not to frighten. But the goal of this film clearly was to frighten, and only fulfilling one of the two points of “found footage”, keeps at least ten-thousand more people from staying awake a whole night. This wasn’t a bad film; it just had so much potential to be ridiculously disturbing.… Full Review »
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