Catch Trailer to Horror Film 'Quarantine' With Columbus Short

Horror films seems to be working these days for a number of actors. For one thing, if the film goes #1 at the box office, it gives a lot of exposure to the actors in the film, and for some, that's a whole new fan base. It's worked for Idris Elba in 'Prom Night' and Columbus Short and Steve Harris hope to grab some of that attention when their horror film, 'Quarantine' opens up this Fall.

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 Wilensky (Columbus Short) and McCreedy (Andrew Fiscella) already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. Unbeknownst to them, a woman has contracted a rare strain of rabies.

When they try to leave the building with those injured from a wild attack by the infected woman, they find that they've been locked in. Indeed, there are police, SWAT and CDC crews securing the building. But phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those quarantined inside.

Also featured in the film are Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Jonathan Schaech, Andrew Fiscella, Rade Sherbedgia, and Greg German.

'Quarantine' is a remake of a Spanish film called 'Rec'.

Short was recently in the smash hit 'Stomp The Yard' and 'This Christmas', both which also featured Chris Brown. Harris was memorable as the no-good-cheating husband in 'Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman'.

Screen Gems (Sony) will release 'Quarantine' on October 17, 2008.