Movies

"Quarantine," which is based on a Spanish movie "REC," considered to be a very good little horror film. "Quarantine" isn't outstanding, but it's true to its mission statement — "Put a group of largely indifferent characters in an old building and sic a nest of zombies on 'em."
Jennifer Carpenter, who is very good in the "Dexter" series, spends the last third of the movie screaming her head off as she and a dwindling number of survivors race frantically from room-to-room trying to escape their "sealed off" apartment building.
There's a lot of good stuff here. The makeup and special effects are well done and the caught on film by a participant gimmick — made popular by the "Blair Witch Project" — actually makes some sense. What's more, it works.
The furious pace of events keeps most of the characters from being more than cardboard cutouts, but in the end this picture really is about running around in the dark with a nasty critter in hot pursuit.
On that level, it works well.
I look forward to seeing the European version this year.