History Film / Quarantine2008

** An inusual one in ''Quarantine 2'', in that it only applies to the worldview of [[spoiler:the cultists]] in-universe: [[spoiler:While the paper clippings in the first movie imply a religious motivation for the group, Henry, who is one of its members, denies that they are a cult and says that such claim is a lie from the government. Henry himself is a ConsummateLiar, but he admits the creation of the virus and their intention of wiping out most of humanity nonchalantly, and the government does indeed lie several times in the movie, giving some credence to him in this regard. The way Henry talks about "The Cause" and their aim of saving the planet from overpopulation makes his group sound more like a genocidal version of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Liberation_Front Earth Liberation Front]] than a new religious group that uses bioterrorism as a tool, like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack Aum Shinrikyo]] or the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_attack Rajneesh]].]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Not a single person inside the building survives, be it because of infection or otherwise.]]

* DeathByPragmatism: An aggravating instance of it. [[spoiler: Randy]] declares he's going back to his apartment and lock himself in. As soon as he gets off the elevator, he encounters an infected dog and runs back into the elevator. The dog follows.

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* SyntheticPlague: The rabies infecting everyone in the building is revealed to be [[spoiler:a "super rabies" created by an apocalyptic cult.]]

Angela Vidal (Creator/JenniferCarpenter) is a news reporter with a Los Angeles television station, who's shadowing a local squad of firemen for a feature when they get called to a nearby apartment complex to assist with a medical emergency. Before they know it, Angela and her cameraman Scott (Steve Harris) wind up filming the discovery and progression of an apparent zombie-style viral outbreak, which forces the CDC and military to seal off the building, trapping everyone inside.

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->''"They aren't coming to get us! They are '''NOT''' coming to get us! They don't give a shit about us, they're gonna let us DIE, they don't care about us!"''

''Quarantine'' is a FoundFootage zombie film. It's the US nearly-ShotForShotRemake of the Spanish horror film ''Film/{{REC}}''.

News reporter Angela Vidal (Creator/JenniferCarpenter) is trailing a local squad of firemen when they get called to a nearby apartment complex. Unbeknownst to them, Angela and her cameraman Scott (Steve Harris) end up filming the discovery and progression of an apparent zombie outbreak, which forces the CDC and military to seal off the building, trapping everyone inside.

** Played with. The ending of the film is the same as the original, with [[spoiler:Angela being dragged away to her presumed death]]. However, whereas the sequel to the original revealed that [[spoiler:Angela survived]], the sequel to ''Quarantine'' claims that there were no survivors.

** The sequel has a straight example in Preston, who is black and killed too early to get any characterization. However, of the three CDC men the black one survives the longer and gets more exposition, and Shilah, who is also black, is among the longest surviving characters.

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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Thoroughly averted. The cameraman is black, and so survives most of the movie. Of both police and fireman teams, the white ones get infected early in the movie.