Tuesday, December 2, 2008

I went to pamper myself today. Indulging in my favourite food.
Strawberry Cheesecake from venezia.




And i went to catch 'Quarentine' today.

Before i went for it, the reviews online was written:

"Quarantine", a remake of the award-winning Spanish horror "[REC]" is no exception. It's fair to say that the handheld camera technique has helped a lot in bringing out the feel of the film from the already formidable plot. Through such realistic camerawork, the audience is taken on a journey of fear, not only of the mysterious threat inside the building but the fear that is felt by the cameraman himself, in this case, the Afro-American Scott, as he and the main character Angela run, hide and fight their way to safety from the terror that has befallen upon them the moment they decided to catch a group of fire-fighters in action on camera.

Jennifer Carpenter gave an interesting performance as the lead Angela Vidal.
... ... she starts to get better and better every minute and by the time the action starts to intensify, you can smell the fear and paranoia coming from her and it feels very real. You almost want to slap her for being so annoyingly freaked!

Kudos to the writers responsible for the interesting plot. Instead of your normal zombie tragedy of 'scientific-experiments-gone-wrong', the last 15 minutes turns it into something more superior to your B-grade zombie movie. The only bane is of course the fact that at times you will feel like getting inside the movie and hold Scott's hand so he won't shake the camera too much.

And.. yes i agree. I went into the movie expecting alot from this woman and fucking hell yes, i do feel like slapping her throughout movie, i mean she's so freaking annoying, her 'half-crying' is more frequent than the moans of the zombies and her pleads for wanting the light to be shone on her because she's so afraid of the dark is really so irritating. Selfishly demanding. Shine on you already then what? still die right.

Overall
Scare Factor 4/5
Plot 3/5
Gore Factor 3/5 (its not so gore, still can accept, bloody, biting of the neck, fracture bones but still walking. To me, still ok. Not so bad.)
Actors/Actress 3.5/5 (not really the famous few but i would say not bad. A little too much but not bad.)
Throughout movie excitment 4/5 (jumpy. Like playing game. Got chase up and down, into a room, out of the room.. etc.)


Some introduction into Rabies (if you don't already know what it is, cause i do HA!)

Quarentine of rabies infected

Tuesday, December 02, 2008