[REC]

2007

1h 18m

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7.2/10

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

Directors

Jaume Balagueró

Paco Plaza

Writers

Paco Plaza(screenplay by)

Jaume Balagueró(screenplay by)

Luiso Berdejo(screenplay by)

Stars

Manuela Velasco

Ferrán Terraza

Martha Carbonell

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Ángela Vidal

Manu

Mrs. Izquierdo

Álex

César

Pablo

Old Police Officer

Guillem

Hysterical Mother

Young Police Officer

Grandmother

Grandfather

Jennifer

Medeiros Girl

Doctor

Japanese Woman

Japanese Man

Colombian Girl

Directors

Jaume Balagueró

Paco Plaza

Writers

Paco Plaza(screenplay by)

Jaume Balagueró(screenplay by)

Luiso Berdejo(screenplay by)

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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.

Geronimo196715 May, 2024