"Quarantine 2: Terminal" Review - Written by Anthony T

Quarantine 2: Terminal
Year: 2011
Director: John G. Pogue
Stars: Mercedes Masohn, Josh Cooke, Bre Bliar
MPAA Rating: R
Studio: Stage 6 Films
Running Time: 86 Mins

“Quarantine 2: Terminal“ is a direct to DVD sequel of the 2008 film “Quarantine”, which was a remake of "[REC]”. Unlike “Quarantine”, this is a direct sequel than another remake.

The film takes places hours after the events of the first film, where the mysterious virus has escaped the building. Soon, it starts to affect the passengers on flight 318. They are forced to land at an isolated terminal, until the CDC get there. But some of the passengers are starting to become infected with the virus, as they turn into bloodthirsty and rabid killers. Soon the survives must find a way out of the terminal, before the virus affects everyone and turns them into something that’s beyond human.

When I first heard about that they were going to make a direct to DVD sequel to “Quarantine”, I cringed at that the fact that the studio was making this film. Expectations got worse, when it was announced that this was going to straight to DVD. But I have to say, this was way much better that I expected.

“Quarantine 2: Terminal“ is frightening and tense ride. Writer and first time director John G Pogue does a really good job keeping the pace of the film intense. He does that, by the way that he sets up the action sequences. Pogue does a very good job in making the scenes have the intensity that is needed for a zombie film to work. There are a few scenes that drive that level up. If don’t have that, then the action is not going to work and that leads to an awful film. The other thing that makes this fun and intense was the acting. Pogue does a good job making the performances good enough that you get interested in this film. It’s one of the things that makes this good. I really liked, how he handles the lead performances. He makes sure that he get his lead actress Mercedes Masohn to make her character very likeable. She really played her character very well, as she made the character innocent like, especially in the beginning. That’s what you want to see in your heroine, because you like the character enough that you want to see her survive. In return, your enjoying the film.

Pouge also does a good job with the screenplay. One of the things that I liked about it, he takes the franchise in a different direction with the sequel. I want sequels to not feel like the original. This film doesn’t feel like the original, because you don’t get the claustrophobic feel that the first film had. The other thing that this screenplay does well, he doesn’t abandon the first film and goes more into the mythology of the first film and branches it into its own mythology . That’s probably a good thing for this series, if there are more entries to come. If this film tried to mimic “[Rec] 2” like the original did with [Rec]”, then my enjoyment level would‘ve been different. Everything would have also predictable again, considering that I saw “[Rec]2”and that’s not you want in a film.

“Quarantine 2: Terminal“ is a surprisingly a suspenseful thrill ride of a horror film that stays true to the original, while adding more it own mythology.

Review Rating: Four Stars