At the Movies with Fatwayne

I am a fan of horror movies, not horrible movies!  Please don’t get me wrong, I do not like movies of the ilk of Saw, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc.  It is however fun to be scared out of your skivvies every once in a while.  You know the movies where you jump and your popcorn goes flying.

Quarantine tries to startle you with things that jump out of the dark and loud sounds, and when that doesn’t work, there are always the gory closeups that strive to make one’s stomach churn especially with one of those movie theater hot dogs already doing a good job of insulting it.

The story follows a cutsie reporter, Angela Vidal (played by Jennifer Carpenter) and her camera man who we will call the nameless one played by Steve Harris. Their assignment is to film a LAFD crew for a day so that we can see what it’s like to be a fireman. All goes fairly well until they get a call for help from an apartment building where terrible screams seem to be emanating. Shortly after arriving at said building, they are locked in by the authorities including the military and the CDC.

It seems that there is one of those ominous viruses that transforms normal people into rabid zombie-like creatures who are pissed off at the world. It can also affect dogs and rats. I was just grateful that there were no canaries to worry about! Can you imagine a ravenous Tweety Bird trying to peck your eyeball?

I got to “enjoy” seeing death by wrinkled old lady, ugly dog, video camera, falling off stairs and even a creepy little girl. This was all pretty much OK with me, but the real clincher was the handheld camera. I do not know who came up with this technique (remember The Blair Witch Project?) but I would like to see him/her murdered by video camera just like one of our zombies was! It was like watching a film while jumping on a trampoline.

The bottom line is that I wasted an hour and a half of my life so that you won’t have to do the same.  You don’t have to thank me, after all, it’s my job!

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