Remaking a movie from years gone by is one thing, but a particularly galling trend in recent years is Hollywood's tendency to quickly turn out remakes of foreign language horror hits, sometimes barely a year after the original first screened. This was very much the case on this regurgitation of 2007 Spanish horror hit , one of the breakthrough found footage movies of the decade, which centres on a small TV crew who accompany local firefighters on what seems like a routine call, but turns out to be a zombie outbreak. Quarantine is for the most part is a near exact scene-for-scene, shot-for-shot facsimile of Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's original, the only real difference being that it's in English, and it adds a little more exposition. It all feels rather sleazy and underhanded, particularly given it was rushed to cinemas before the original even got US distribution; as such, it's likely many viewers were unaware they were watching a remake at all.
