Quarantine is a 2008 found footage zombie 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.

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.

Screams from the apartment of elderly resident Mrs. Espinosa were heard by the landlord Yuri, his wife Wanda, and other residents: veterinarian Lawrence, opera teacher Bernard, his roommate Sadie, lawyer Randy, mother Kathy, her daughter Briana, and immigrant couple Nadif and Jwahir.

The pair are forced upstairs to the attic apartment by the infected, where they find lab equipment and newspaper clippings belonging to a former tenant, who was a member of a doomsday cult that broke into a military's biological facility and stole a biological weapon called the Armageddon Virus.

A trapdoor opens from the attic and Scott loses the camera light when an infected boy swats at it.

Ben Messmer, who starred in director John Erick Dowdle's previous film The Poughkeepsie Tapes, makes an appearance as firefighter Griffin.

Principal photography on their film began in January 2008 and wrapped in March 2008 in Downtown, Los Angeles, California.

The site's critical consensus reads "Quarantine uses effective atmosphere and consistent scares to stand above the crop of recent horror films.

[8] Reviewing it in The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis praised its "solid acting and perfectly calibrated shocks".

"[10] Michael Gingold of Fangoria rated it 3/4 stars and called it "an acceptable substitute" for the original film.

[12] Paul Nicholasi of Dread Central rated it 1.5/5 stars and called it hard to watch, both because of the shaky cam and the pacing.

[13] Joe Leydon of Variety described it as "a modestly inventive, sporadically exciting thriller that nonetheless proves too faithful to its central conceit for its own good.

"[14] Jaume Balagueró, who co-wrote and directed the REC series, expressed distaste for Quarantine by saying, "It's impossible for me to like, because it's a copy.