Remakes of foreign horror films are commonplace nowadays. There are so many of them, I’m sure most American audiences don’t even know they’re watching a remake. Quarantine however, has some advantage over other remakes. The original, the Spanish film [REC], has still not received a proper American R1 DVD release. Of course there are other ways of obtaining films before they’re released, but since I’m a sucker for my subtitled DVD extras and English menu screens, I have not yet seen [REC] giving me a non-biased view of Quarantine. »»
