[REC] Collection

Manuela Velasco

Ferrán Terraza

Martha Carbonell

David Vert

Carlos Lasarte

Pablo Rosso

Vicente Gil

Carlos Vicente

María Lanau

Jorge-Yamam Serrano

María Teresa Ortega

Manuel Bronchud

Claudia Silva

Javier Botet

Ben Temple

Akemi Goto

Kao Chenmin

Ana Isabel Velásquez

Daniel Trinh

Marita Borrego

Jana Prats

Víctor Massagué

Javier Coromina

Julio Fernández

Jaume Balagueró

Glòria Viguer

David Gallart

Paco Plaza

Carlos Fernández

Cristina Campos

Alberto Álvarez

Martí Roca

Àlex Villagrasa

Jesús L. Pérez Villar

Gérard Estival

Anna Vilà Parera

Marc Orts

Alberto Marini

Eduard Aguiló

Inés Lugo

Albert Roca

Raul Gall

Isabel Duque

Pepo Alba

Ricard Garcia

Jaume Granell

Laia Farran

Pau Albin

Imma Pérez

Gemma Fauria

Maruxa Alvar

Oriol Maymó

Nerea Torrecilla

Fernando Sánchez-Izquierdo

Silvia Esquivel

David Ambit

Iker Sanjorge Redondo

Lucía Salanueva

Teresa Gefaell

Nuria Muni

Sergi Segarra

Diego Casares

Xavier Mas

Quique Cañadas

Froilán Lugilde

Félix Bueno

Enric Masip

Sofia Escudé

Jaume Puig

David Flores

Filippo Restelli

Josep Prieto

José Ignacio Álvarez

Ángeles Albadalejo

Fran Cruz

Nacho Melero

David Sans

Kiku Vidal

Víctor Palomo Adalid

Edgar Vidal

Gustavo López

Josep Maria Oliva

Oriol Tarragó

Oscar Vallejo

Manolo Millán

Marc Vives

Carmen Romero

Álex de Molina

Marga Villalonga

Luiso Berdejo

Horror

Mystery

[REC]

Filmax

Castelao Productions

Canal+ España

Spain

The Movie Mob

**REC is zombie horror brilliance!**

REC is one of the best found-footage and zombie movies ever made. The panic, chaos, and terror that grows and spreads through a small apartment building as residents fall one by one to a zombie plague is overwhelmingly suspenseful and believable. REC starts slow but exponentially builds into a bloodcurdling frenzy with horrified characters frantically struggling to survive. This low-budget horror film belongs in the hall of fame for creativity and genius in the genre. I saw the American remake, Quarantine, many years ago, which is very similar to this film, but REC edges Quarantine with originality and a franchise of 3 other films following it. Any zombie or horror fan needs to add this to their watchlist immediately!

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"Ángela" (Manuela Velasco) is a pushy television reporter who is with her cameraman "Pablo" (Pablo Rosso) doing a feature about some local hunky firemen. When they are called to an emergency, they accompany the crews but upon arrival the find themselves subject to a terrifying lock-in as the raging fire proves not to be their most imminent danger. It seems that there is also something afoot that is hungry, and that hunger breeds more hunger... It's filmed from the perspective of the camera and has a lot of "Blair Witch" (1999) to it - and that's where I lost interest. The intensity of the photography in the dark and winding corridors of this expansive apartment block works quite well for about ten minutes, thereafter the hysterical acting, constant screaming and overdoses of ketchup just made me think that they hadn't the budget or the imagination to make something different or memorable. If Velasco's plan was to make the audience dislike her character intensely then she hit the nail on the head and if I'd been one of the fire crew trying to save lives amidst her increasingly annoying histrionics, I'd have happily sacrificed her to their tormentors. It doesn't hang about, but even at just eighty minutes I was weary of it's repetition. Not for me, sorry.