Friday, December 4, 2009

REC - best thriller ever

I am not very used to watch movies, but one in particular caught my attention. Rec, an horror movie, tells the story of a reporter (Ángela) and a camera guy (Pablo) who goes to a fire station to record a routine night of the firefighters. They recieve a call from a building where the residents claim that an old woman is traped in her appartment. Two cops and two firefighters kicks the door and try to help her, when she suddenly bites a cop's neck and leaves him bleeding. The injuried policeman's partner and a firefighter tries to carry him outdoors, but the government had sealed the place, advising them their not allowed to leave because they're exposed to a biological agent and they must wait a sanitary agent to get inside. The night turns into a hell for everyone in the building.

If you like these kinds of movies which the enemies are the blood-thirsty dead people, then you must watch this masterpiece. It gives you the sensation of claustrophobia and achluophobia. It's full of gore and frights.

The most interesting of this film is that it was recorded with a single camera, held by a character. The intetion was to make the movie look like a report. And it really looks spontaneous.

Here's the spectators reactions.


The movie REC is Spanish. The Americans remade the movie and named it Quarentine.

In 2010 the sequence will be relased in Brasil. I searched for a more precise date, but diferent sources have given me diferent informations. One say it will be on January, other April, March and even October, so i'll just say it will be on 2010.

In the sequence, fifteen minutes have past since the government agents don't recieve comunication from people inside the building. They send a GEO (Grupo Especial de Operaciones, like a SWAT team of Spain) squad to see what's happening inside it.

There isn't much information about it, but a firing squad infers more action than the first movie. Here's a picture of it: