During the inspection, Pablo is hiding in the room next door to the men filming the health inspector treat the injured. To everyone’s shock and dismay, Álex and the wounded officer become violent like the old lady and begin attacking the men in the room. The tenant who is an intern is bitten and the room is closed off. The health inspector starts to explains that the disease is unlike any that has been encountered and for some reason it varies on blood type to how quickly a person gets infected and turns on those around them.
Manu demands that the health inspector reveal more information, which he reluctantly tells them that the day before a dog was brought into a local veterinarian’s office with some kind of disease. The dog became horribly violent and attacked all the other pets at the clinic killing them. The BNC traced the disease from the dog back to the apartment building where it lived. Ángela asks if the name of the dog was Max, whom the inspector confirms. This new information prompts everyone turns to Jennifer and her mother who distraughtly says over and over that Jennifer only has tonsillitis. Jennifer suddenly attacks her mother in violence. Everyone panics as Jennifer hisses and runs up the stairs. Trying to help, the inspector informs the distraught victims that the infectious disease causes people to turn into bloodthirsty savages. More and more people in the building become infected, and Ángela and Pablo are forced to fight them off. They find out that some of the corpses have disappeared and soon discover that the people presumed dead are now infected and chasing them. Trying to outrun the infected, Ángela and the remaining uninfected learn that there is a key that will open the door in the apartment building workshop. Inside there is an exit through the sewer system. Unfortunately, the key is located on the third floor in the intern’s apartment. Ángela, Pablo, and Manu fight the infected residents to the third floor apartment and find the key hidden in the intern’s desk. Manu stays outside to fend the infected off yet becomes infected himself leaving Ángela and Pablo to be the only survivors. They find themselves being forced upstairs to seek refuge in the penthouse that is supposedly uninhabited. Once inside, Ángela and Pablo discover that the penthouse is a house of unspeakable horror which leaves untold horrors to decide their fate in the darkness the penthouse holds. REC was filmed using the “shaky camera” technique that gave the film an ad-hoc (i.e., documentary) feel. The camera view during the movie that we feel Pablo is behind lends the ad-hoc feeling to REC. The directors admitted to wanting their movie filmed this way since a first-person view in the movie would make the film more believable to its audience. Also they admitted that the film was made in sequences so not even the actors would know what was next in the movie’s production in order to get a more realistic acting to the events that were taking place. When you watch Ángela jump as the firemen break the door down to the apartment, she isn’t faking her reaction since the actress didn’t rehearse that scene like that. The directors decided to leave out details to their actors/actresses so that the movie would be more convincing. REC is also every bit Spanish in its details in the movie. It captures these details, which are very peculiar to the Spanish way of life as well as design from the way the fire station is laid out spaciously to the equipment the firemen use. Even the cooling lobby of the apartment building that houses the infected shows Spanish influence in its detail. This is very refreshing for the genre of horror since it gives the genre a new feel and authenticity to the audience as they watch REC. I really enjoyed this movie and found it to be more suspenseful and scary than Quaratine. In general, I would recommend it more to my audience than the remake. It should be watched in Spanish (with English subtitles) if all possible to get the feel for the film as it was intended. REC is delightfully refreshing as a horror movie in this genre and I would definitely buy it for my home collection.
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AuthorRobert Nations is a creator of this blog and author of articles. He was born on November 23, 1983, in Los Angeles in family of film makers. He went on to study at Stanford University. Robert organizes training programms for producers. He is also a guest writer at Edusson. ArchivesCategories |