Review of REC

REC (2007)
7/10
Sinister and horrifying atmosphere by means of shaky camera and videotape
9 March 2009
This eerie tale deals with a TV journalist named Angela Vidal (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman occupying to spend themselves the night shift with Barcelona fire station . After a routine call take them to an apartments building . There they find residents , cops , caretaker already in the scenario . They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown . Later on , a few neighbors are brutally attacked by psycho people . They attempt to getaway but only encounter that have been quarantined . The communication means have been cut-off and police agents are not relaying information to those closed inside .One Witness. One Camera Whatever You Witness..... Never Stop Recording. Just One Witness.... A Video Camera. Experience Fear. The movie that inspired Quarantine. Trapped. No mercy. No escape. No one gets out alive.

This solid movie is a terror story with plenty of gory scenes , suspense , restless horror , and in documentary style . Film itself takes place from point of sight from cameraman . It packs tension , shocks , thrills , chills and lots of gore and blood . Well worth seeing if you like shaky cameras , like ¨Blair witch project¨, ¨28 Days/Weeks¨ ,¨Cloverfield¨ or the classic ¨Cannibal Holocaust¨ . The picture was well directed by Jaume Balaguero (Fragiles , Darkness , Nameless) and Paco Plaza (Romasanta, Second name), two magnificent terror experts . Both of them are directing the second and other parts with similar team , actors (Manuela Velasco) and director of photography (Pablo Rosso) . It's remade by an inferior US adaptation , titled ¨Quarantine¨ directed by John Erick with Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez and Steve Harris , but this original is far superior . It's one of the highest earning horror movies of the last years.
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