[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

Glòria Viguer

David Gallart

Jaume Balagueró

Julio Fernández

Paco Plaza

Carlos Fernández

Alberto Álvarez

Cristina Campos

Marc Orts

Jesús L. Pérez Villar

Gérard Estival

Àlex Villagrasa

Martí Roca

Anna Vilà Parera

Laia Farran

Nerea Torrecilla

Silvia Esquivel

Raul Gall

Iker Sanjorge Redondo

Imma Pérez

Eduard Aguiló

Fernando Sánchez-Izquierdo

Isabel Duque

Jaume Granell

Gemma Fauria

Oriol Maymó

Alberto Marini

Pau Albin

Teresa Gefaell

Sergi Segarra

Nuria Muni

Maruxa Alvar

Lucía Salanueva

Albert Roca

Pepo Alba

Ricard Garcia

Inés Lugo

David Ambit

Edgar Vidal

Kiku Vidal

Víctor Palomo Adalid

Enric Masip

Oscar Vallejo

Josep Maria Oliva

Oriol Tarragó

Marc Vives

Álex de Molina

David Flores

Sofia Escudé

Gustavo López

Carmen Romero

Froilán Lugilde

Diego Casares

Quique Cañadas

Félix Bueno

David Sans

Manolo Millán

Xavier Mas

Filippo Restelli

Fran Cruz

Nacho Melero

Jaume Puig

Josep Prieto

José Ignacio Álvarez

Ángeles Albadalejo

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.