Quarantine (2008 film)

Quarantine
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Erick Dowdle
Screenplay by	John Erick Dowdle Drew Dowdle
Based on	REC by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza
Produced by	Sergio Aguero Doug Davison Roy Lee
Starring	Jennifer Carpenter Jay Hernandez Columbus Short Greg Germann Steve Harris Dania Ramirez Rade Šerbedžija Johnathon Schaech
Cinematography	Ken Seng
Edited by	Elliott Greenberg
Production companies	Screen Gems Andale Pictures Filmax Vertigo Entertainment
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date	October 10, 2008 (2008-10-10) (United States)
Running time	89 minutes[1]
Countries	United States Spain
Languages	English Spanish
Budget	$12 million[2]
Box office	$41.3 million[2]

Quarantine is a 2008 found footage horror film directed and co-written by John Erick Dowdle, produced by Sergio Aguero, Doug Davison, and Roy Lee, and co-written by Drew Dowdle, being a remake of the 2007 Spanish film Rec. The film stars Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Greg Germann, Steve Harris, Dania Ramirez, Rade Šerbedžija, and Johnathon Schaech. 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.

Quarantine was released in the United States by Sony's subsidiary Screen Gems on October 10, 2008. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $41.3 million worldwide at the box office. It was followed by a sequel, Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011).