Thursday 19 February 2009

[●REC]

[●REC], or REC, is a Spanish horror film. I saw it with my friends at the cinema.

The main carachters are a young TV reporter, Angela Vidal, and her cameraman, Pablo, sent by a local TV program (While You Sleep) to the firemen's station for recording their work. So they follow two firemen, Alex and Manu, when they go to rescue an old woman trapped inside her flat. But when they go inside, the old lady attacks them, biting a fireman. While they are inside the apartment, the building is sealed from the outside, trapping inside the reporter, the cameraman, the firemen and all the tenants, too. They'll learn further that the old woman was infected by a virus, transmitted with saliva, that transforms people in bloodthirsty zombies. Soon all the carachters, except Angela and Pablo, become infected; the two protagonists, to save themselves, go upstairs to the penthouse: here they found that a Vatican doctor had brought researches about a virus believed to be the cause of demonic possession, studying a possessed girl. Suddenly, a door opens: the possessed girl is still alive, and kills Pablo and Angela.

REC seems really filmed by Pablo, and this gives an incredible realism to the film. Some of my friends were really horrified. Actually, the film didn't scare me so much, but I must admit that it was really well done, even if the shaky camera gave me some problems.
We have to tape everything, Pablo. For fuck's sake.

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