Quarantine 2: Terminal

Quarantine 2: Terminal
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Pogue
Written by	John Pogue
Produced by	Doug Davison Roy Lee Sergio Aguero Marc Brienstock
Starring	Mercedes Mason Josh Cooke Mattie Liptak Ignacio Serricchio Noree Victoria Bre Blair Lamar Stewart
Cinematography	Matthew Irving
Edited by	William Yeh
Production companies	Third Street Pictures RCR Media Group Stage 6 Films Vertigo Entertainment Andale Pictures
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date	June 17, 2011 (2011-06-17) (limited release)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Quarantine 2: Terminal is a 2011 American horror film and a sequel to the 2008 film, Quarantine.^[1] It was written and directed by John Pogue and produced by Marc Brienstock. The film stars Mercedes Mason, Josh Cooke and Mattie Liptak as passengers on an airplane where the mutant rabies virus from the previous film is now spreading, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing at a terminal that is promptly surrounded by the government, trapping the passengers and crew as they search for answers and a means of escape.

Although the first film was a remake of the Spanish film REC, Quarantine 2 has no relation to any of the REC films and has an entirely different plot and setting.^[2]

Plot[]

On a flight from Los Angeles to Kansas City, passenger Ralph Bundt becomes violent and attempts to enter the cockpit. Ralph has been bitten by a lab rat, brought onto the plane by Henry, who claimed they were his classroom's pet hamsters. Ralph bites flight attendant Paula on the face, to the horror of her colleague Jenny. Captain Forrest and First Officer Willsy land the plane at the nearest city. Disobeying orders, they pull up to a jetway operated by baggage handler Ed Ramirez. Everyone flees the plane, except for elderly couple Bev and Doc Stevens and the pilots, who try to contain Ralph in a bathroom. The passengers find that they have been locked out of the terminal, which is quickly surrounded by armed soldiers and CDC scientists.

Passenger Shilah Washington reveals she has a medical kit in her bag in the cargo hold. Jenny, Henry, Ed, and fellow passengers Niall and Preston go to retrieve it. Preston gets Doc off the plane, while the others retrieve Shilah's kit and Niall's handgun. Jenny is attacked by an infected Captain Forrest and Niall shoots and kills him, but is splattered by the captain's blood. Leaving the plane, they find Preston's body, and avoid an infected Bev.

Rejoining the others, the group deduces that the infection is probably a form of rabies spread through bites. When Doc is bitten by an infected rat, they lock him and Paula away. George, an unaccompanied minor, tells the others that Henry brought the rats onto the plane. As Henry tells Jenny that George is just confused, they are attacked by the escaped Ralph, but kill him with the help of Ed and Shilah.

Four heavily armed officers arrive to administer drugs to the group, but also release the infected passengers from their confinement. Passenger Louise Treadwell is bitten by her infected cat, while the infected Doc bites one of the officers. After shooting Doc, the officers and a passenger named Hvorst attempt to evacuate but are shot and killed by personnel outside the doors, leaving Hvorst's girlfriend, Nicca, distraught. Ed drags one surviving officer back inside. The survivors hear the screams of the infected (at this point they are Willsy, Louise, Preston, and Paula). Ed points out an airport catering truck the survivors can hide in. As the others clamber inside the truck, Niall and Susan share a loving embrace, until Niall begins to drool and turns. Henry and the others grab Susan and begin pulling her into the truck. Niall, fully turned, grabs her from the back and pulls her off the truck floor. The group in the truck question the wounded officer, who reveals that he does not represent the CDC but rather CBDT, which is short for Chemical Biological Domestic Terrorism, a special department of Department of Homeland Security to deal with chemical and biological terrorism. He tells them about a quarantined building in Los Angeles that housed a lab for a group of bioterrorists and confirms that the drugs are only experimental antidotes. The wounded officer then shoots himself. Just as Ed suggests escaping through an old drainage tunnel beneath the terminal, Willsy appears on the roof of the truck; George then raises the truck and crushes Willsy.

The survivors access the tunnel, though Nicca is attacked and dragged away. Jenny kills an attacking Paula. While searching for directions to the tunnel, the group is attacked by Niall and Susan. Henry kills them, but he is bitten. George confronts him with suspicious evidence concerning viruses that he found in Henry's briefcase, to which Henry admits being part of the terrorist cell at the apartment building, who have planned a worldwide plague to cull the human population. Henry shoots and kills Ed, administers himself with the trial antidote, then kidnaps George to use him as a human shield. Shilah and Jenny separate to find George and Henry.

Shilah finds Jenny and gives her thermal goggles. She then reveals to Jenny that she has been bitten, and sacrifices herself to the infected so Jenny can escape. Jenny uses the goggles and finds George near the tunnel, where he tells her the antidote has failed and that Henry is mutating into a rat-like infected, who appears and attacks. After a struggle with Jenny, George shoots him and Jenny bashes in his skull.

As Jenny and George crawl through the dark drainage tunnel, the thermal goggles allowed George to see that she has been bitten. After George exited the drainage tunnel, he continuously called Jenny vowing never to leave until she comes out, instead an infected Jenny grabs and bites his jacket, he manages to escape her by taking off his jacket and leaves the airport perimeter. Through the thermal vision goggles, Louise's infected cat is seen walking past, headed towards the Luxor Las Vegas hotel, revealing the events' location as the McCarran International Airport and implying that all efforts to contain the virus have failed.

Cast[]

• Mercedes Mason as Jenny
• Mattie Liptak as George
• Josh Cooke as Henry
• Noree Victoria as Shilah Washington
• Ignacio Serricchio as Ed Ramirez
• Phillip Devona as Niall Britz
• Julie Gribble as Susan Britz
• Tyler Kunkle as Hvorst
• Erin Aine Smith as Nicca
• Sandra Lafferty as Louise Tredwell
• Lamar Stewart as Preston
• Tom Thon as Doc Stevens
• Lynn Cole as Bev Stevens
• Bre Blair as Paula
• George Back as Ralph Bundt
• John Curran as Captain Forrest
• Andrew Benator as Willsy
• as CDC #1
• Beau Turpin as CDC #2
• Neko Parham as CDC #3
• Judd Lormand as Sylvester
• Blake Mason as Lee Blake

Production and release[]

Quarantine 2: Terminal was produced by Three Street Pictures and RCR Media Group and distributed by Sony Pictures for the worldwide launch and DVD release in Australia. The film was shot in Griffin, Georgia.

The film was showcased at the Gérardmer Film Festival in France. Sony Pictures released the DVD in Australia. The film was given a limited release in theaters on June 17, 2011.^[3] The DVD was released on August 2, 2011 in the United States.

Critical reception[]

Although it is not as highly praised on other websites, the film received a score of 75% on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 5.42/10, based on 8 reviews.^[4]

Some critics have positively received the film's use of special effects and the scares, but have criticized the lack of character development and originality.^[5]

See also[]

• Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane
• Snakes on a Plane

References[]

External links[]

• Quarantine 2: Terminal at IMDb