Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.
This movie would have been scary as all hell if it wasn't for the home video style of filming in it. The first 20 minutes of the movie were a total waste. We didn't need to see the reporter giggling with the firefighters and what not for that long. Just get to the contaminated house already. They also tried to build some sort of suspense as to what the disease was (SPOILER ALERT - some kind of an advanced string of rabies . . . . I think) and you don't really need to know. Its basically like a zombie movie in a quarantined house. Its a decent watch once you take out all of the above nonsense, but its scare potential is very limited because of the shaky camera work. The other thing I still can't get over is that (SPOILER ALERT), the main marketing scene that is all over the posters and commercials is the final scene of the movie. Why in the blue hell would they do that?
I'd recommend this movie to big horror fans. Just don't have your expectations too high. The movie is definitely watchable but could have been SO much better.
