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[REC]

"Experience fear."

A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

Top Cast

  • Manuela Velasco

    Manuela Velasco

    Ángela Vidal

  • Pablo Rosso

    Pablo Rosso

    Pablo

  • Javier Coromina

    Javier Coromina

    Pablo (voice)

  • Ferrán Terraza

    Ferrán Terraza

    Manu

  • Martha Carbonell

    Martha Carbonell

    Mrs. Izquierdo

  • David Vert

    David Vert

    Álex

  • Carlos Lasarte

    Carlos Lasarte

    César

  • Vicente Gil

    Vicente Gil

    Old Police Officer

  • Carlos Vicente

    Carlos Vicente

    Guillem

Overview

A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

Rating

7.2 / 10
4,879 Reviews
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2 Reviews

  • The Movie Mob
    The Movie Mob
    8 Nov 5, 2022

    **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!

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 May 15, 2024

    "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.

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