'Quarantine' has its fair share of scares and grizzly moments, but you will still be left feeling a little short-changed by a first-person horror that offers so much, yet fails to deliver.

Following hot on the heels of 'Cloverfield' and not-so hot on the heels of 'Blair Witch Project' (made way back in 1999), 'Quarantine' downscales from monster mayhem in New York, to a film crew covering a team of firemen for a routine human interest piece in Los Angeles.

A rather dull start to the movie — filled with cheeky come-on lines and sliding down poles… in the firehouse — gets cranked up when the crew finally gets a distress call from an apartment building. The film crew follows, of course, and finally 'Quarantine' takes a dark and moody turn for the better.

That distress call soon reveals that an occupant is infected with some vile, zombiesque disease and before you can say "George Romero" the survivors are running up and down flights of stairs, screaming and blubbering, and hoping to God they do not join the legions of the un-dead…

While it does deliver on some fronts (watching a 10-year-old girl go beserk and try and eat her mother will scare just about anybody) — and thankfully, unlike 'Cloverfield', the camerawork doesn't leave you wanting to vomit in your popcorn — it still fails to set itself apart from all the other movies in the genre.

'28 Weeks Later', 'Diary of the Dead', 'The Signal', 'Pulse' and a glut of other titles have flooded the market of late, and they are all beginning to blend into one rather bland mishmash of ideas.

It is not that 'Quarantine' is a bad movie, it is just not all that original, which is hardly surprising when you consider that it is a close-to exact remake of Spanish movie 'Rec'… also released this year.