Quarantine Page #2

Synopsis: A television reporter and her cameraman are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director(s): John Erick Dowdle
Production: Screen Gems
  6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
59%
R
Year:
2008
89 min
$31,691,811
Website
1,335 Views


it's sort of nice.

Works in your favor

from time to time?

Not in my favor.

What are you talking about?

I never lose.

I think I'd roller-skate

if I had access to this.

I can see you doing that. Yeah.

Okay, so this is where the men

store their boots and turnouts.

The pole hole is over here.

- The pole hole.

- Yeah, interesting name, I know.

- You got the locker room here.

- Yep.

You got the dorms here.

Our viewers

always like to see action...

...so maybe we should go

into the locker room.

- Let's go in the locker room.

- You got it.

- Right this way.

- I was kidding, I was kidding.

Okay, towel up, guys.

We got a female on deck.

- Female on the deck.

- Oh, my God.

That's Griffin.

He can't sing very well.

He's got one major talent,

so come this way.

- He's got a huge talent.

- We're not using this.

Here. We have different hoses at

the station, and this is the Griffin hose.

- Griffin hose.

- What the hell?

You know,

I hope that's a wide-angle lens.

Oh, my God.

Stay in there.

Hey, put that thing away.

This is adding a whole new meaning

to the term fireman's hose.

- Hey, hit the floor.

- Oh, my...

I understand

why there are no women here.

- Plenty of female firefighters.

- In this station?

No, not currently.

Okay, I think I can be a firefighter.

- Yeah, it's a lot harder than it seems.

- Keep the door closed.

You know what?

Pick something you're good at.

I bet you $ 10 I can do it better.

You all can be my witnesses.

- That's too easy. Ten bucks?

- Yeah.

How about my place?

I think we're done here.

We got everything we need.

Here we go. Listen up.

Did you know

you were gonna be on camera?

- Behind the line. Ready?

- Yeah.

- Ten bucks.

- You can't be in the way.

- I know.

- Get on that side.

I'm just saying. You guys ready?

- You know what you're doing?

- Yes.

And go.

- Get in there.

- That's not nice.

That's not fair. She pushed.

- She pushed.

- Haven't got that much time.

- Yes. You owe her 10 bucks, man.

- Ten dollars.

Pay up. Oh, that's embarrassing.

- Oh, this is embarrassing.

- That's really embarrassing.

Okay, rolling.

Just waiting

on something to happen.

You wanna go back outside?

See what they're up to?

Why not?

- Careful.

- Thank you.

We're good.

You good?

I think they're talking about you.

Will you turn up his mike?

You didn't catch no eye.

Here, give me some of that.

I'll tell you, all right?

A hundred bucks

says I can bang her by the morning.

- Oh, come on.

- I'll take that bet.

You're so busted.

Nice mike.

Missed a spot.

- Sorry, what?

- I said you missed a spot.

Oh, I know how to hit the spot.

Don't you worry about that.

I'll hold your camera.

You go kick his ass, okay?

That's how you do pick and roll.

Oh, yeah? Is that how you do it?

He'll show you how to do it later.

It's nighttime here...

...and the firefighters take turns

sleeping in these rooms here.

But if the alarm rings, they can be up

and on the truck in under one minute.

Let's check out the room.

Can you get in here?

It's like my college dorm

without the pink.

Attention, 222 Truck 16.

- Watch your back.

- Hey.

Looks like you got your call.

- Just try to keep up.

- You okay?

- We're going to the pole hole.

- Come on, come on.

- Got it?

- What you wanna do?

I can't slide down there.

Come here, come here,

come this way.

Careful, okay?

We have to get on that truck.

- There are like 15 stairs.

- I got it.

- You be careful.

- Keep going, keep going.

- It's this way?

- Yeah. Yeah, keep going.

- Be careful.

- Make a quick right.

Make a quick right, baby.

Just jump in the back.

- Jump in.

- Buckle up.

- We're almost in.

- You guys in?

- Yep, yep, yep.

- Yep?

Nice job.

What kind of call is this?

Probably just a medical.

- Okay.

- We'll find out when we get there.

You seem to have kept shooting.

Ready?

Ready, set. Ready, set.

Okay, good.

Most little girls wanna be ballerinas

or princesses when they grow up.

I used to tell my mom, "Someday,

I'm gonna grow up and be a fireman."

Tonight, I am truly living the dream.

It's so loud,

I don't think we can use any of it.

Scott, I am still living the dream.

Thirty-seventeen, go ahead.

All right, we got a eight at 3 o'clock.

Keep calling out numbers.

What are you doing?

Well, Jake's the engineer.

He's actually

a third-generation engineer...

...but I have the most important job.

Navigating?

No,

I'm in charge of the chick-o-meter.

When I see a girl, I rate them.

So if I say

there's a eight at 3 o'clock...

...the guys know

they better look to the right.

You know, it's really funny. I always

thought firemen were so dignified.

Oh, no, no.

I signed up for brave and courageous.

- I don't do dignified.

- Yeah, I think we get that by now.

I see a nine at 2.

- Oh, we got a nine at 2.

- Yeah.

Whoa, that's a dude.

It's called a chick-o-meter,

not a dick-o-meter.

I think we're good.

You're fired. You can't talk anymore.

So where do you think

the problem is?

Do you think it's over there,

around the corner?

Or maybe around there?

You're rotten, you know that?

To the core, baby. To the core.

What are you taking with you?

Tools.

Really anything we might need

to break a lock or open a door.

- You're the one who called this in?

- Yeah.

Come, follow me.

Look at Probie's new turnouts.

I didn't know

they made them that new.

We're almost to the building.

Police are here. Might be more

serious than we thought.

Probably not.

A woman was screaming

bloody murder up there.

- It's Mrs. Espinoza.

- Two cops are up there.

- When did they get here?

- Five minutes ago.

- What's that sound?

- Sound of the building.

It's very old.

- He insists on fixing everything.

- Wanda, please.

- What apartment number?

- It's up here.

- Go back to your apartments.

- We heard screams.

Well, at least get out of the way.

- Are they with you?

- Yeah. They're shadowing us.

Then they're your responsibility.

I tell you not to film something,

don't film it.

- I tell you to get lost, you get lost.

- No problem.

Here on the second floor on the right.

It's an old woman, lives alone.

Probably fell.

Neighbors heard screams, called it in.

What are those people doing?

You wouldn't believe

the way she screamed. It was crazy.

Neighbors say she's weird.

Doesn't talk to anybody.

She hasn't made a sound.

- Who are they?

- They're with Fire.

- I told them not to get in the way.

- Great. That's all we need.

Hello, ma'am, can you hear me?

It's L.A.P.D.

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John Erick Dowdle

John Erick Dowdle (born December 1973) is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for horror films. He usually works with his brother Drew Dowdle as a producer and co-screenwriter. more…

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