Horror Movie Month: Maniac & Quarantine

Maniac
The Stars: Elijah Wood
The Plot: A guy with serious mommy issues traipses around the city scalping pretty girls.
The Scares: None at all, not even a little bit. The only semi-cool thing about Maniac is the way its filmed. Its shot entirely first person, so you only see star Elijah Wood in mirror reflections and the such. This is half awesome and half gimmicky, but at least it is something that sets it apart from being just another gory slash fest, which it totally almost is.
The Body Count: 9
The Grade: D

Quarantine
The Stars: Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez
The Plot: A 911 call takes a pair of cops, an firefighting crew, and the news reporters doing a story on them to an apartment building where it seems a disease that turns you into a crazed, fast moving, flesh devouring crazy person is spreading fast.
The Scares: I actually find Quarantine to be quite scary. It's a little more realistic than a typical horror movie. It's pretty much a zombie movie but with rabies instead of biological hazard, or post-apocalyptic outbreak. Also, the movie is just about as intense as anything else I've seen in the last few months. The big flaw, however, is the last twenty minutes or so where Jennifer Carpenter's character becomes a big whimpering, annoying mess who I just wanted to punch in the face. That super annoying last act very nearly ruined all the good will this movie built in the middle scenes.
The Body Count: Who knows who actually dies and who gets turned into rabies crazed psychos??
The Grade: B-/C+, depends on my mood