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Quarantine
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15 Interesting Facts About Quarantine
Interesting Facts (14)
- #001
Jennifer Carpenter deliberately avoided seeing the attic so that she would know nothing about what to expect there, let alone be familiar with the geography.
- #002
At around the 41-minute mark, all the rabies symptoms in the film are accurately depicted.
- #003
The ending, in which Angela drops the camera and is dragged into the darkness by an infected, possibly dying person, was meant to be a surprise, but the theatrical poster and the DVD/Blu-ray covers spoil it.
- #004
The apartment complex was a set, but it was a fully functioning four-story complex.
- #005
When Angela and Scott reach the attic, they play a recording device set to half speed, so they hear only a heavily distorted sound. When the film is sped up, the original recording can be heard: "It appears the spread cannot be contained. November (seventh?) Something unexpected happened. Our brothers in the east have come under suspicion…". The attic walls are covered with articles describing someone who fled from a doomsday cult and spoke of an 'Armageddon virus' stolen from a weapons laboratory that had already destroyed a South Pacific island. In the Blu-ray/DVD commentary, writer/director John Erick Dowdle and writer/executive producer Drew Dowdle explain that the voice on the tape belongs to the "Thin Man" found in the attic in the final scene, played by Doug Jones. Jones had recorded an entire manifesto intended to be played on the recording device to provide backstory, but during editing the filmmakers realized that giving away too much information made the film less frightening and decided to slow the voice on the tape down until it was unintelligible.
- #006
Both Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, the directors of the original REC (2007), expressed their dissatisfaction with this film.
- #007
Unusually for a Hollywood production, the film has no music.
- #008
It took Doug Jones four hours to put on the full-body prosthetic. His role required only one day of shooting.
- #009
It was shot in chronological order.
- #010
In October 2008, Knott's Berry Farm theme park in Buena Park, California, featured a Quarantine-themed walk-through "maze" for the park's 36th annual Knott's Scary Farm Halloween Haunt. It was their third film-themed Halloween Haunt maze, after Beowulf (2007) and The Grudge 2 (2006).
- #011
The average shot was four to six minutes long.
- #012
It is a remake of REC (2007). [Rec]² (2009) was shot in the same building, but Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011) was shot not in the same building but on a plane and in an abandoned building.
- #013
It was not screened for American critics.
- #014
Both Jennifer Carpenter and Steve Harris played comic book characters in the Batman saga. Carpenter would voice Selina Kyle in Gaslight's Gotham (2018), and Harris would voice Detective Ian Bennett/Clayface in The Batman (2004-2008).
Easter Eggs & References (1)
- #015
Lawrence, in Quarantine (2008), also guest-starred on Grey's Anatomy (2005), where his character is reluctantly sent into quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sources & editorial notes
Reference databases
- IMDb
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