Movie Review: [REC]

[REC]

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Directed By: Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza

Starring: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza

Plot Synopsis:

A beautiful TV reporter (Manuela Velasco, Law of Desire) and her cameraman are doing a routine interview at a local fire station when an emergency call comes in.  Accompanying the firefighters to a nearby apartment, the news team begins recording the bloodcurdling screams coming from inside an elderly woman’s unit.  After authorities seal off the building to contain the threat, the news crew, firefighters and residents are trapped to face a lethal terror inside.  With the camera running, nothing may survive but the film itself. [Sony Pictures]

Review:

If you saw Quarantine first, you got ripped off.  Luckily, I purposefully delayed watching Quarantine until I viewed the original Spanish horror flick, [REC].  [REC] is a tight, edge of your seat scarefest that succeeds on the realism depicted.  Something Cloverfield or The Blair Witch Project couldn’t achieve.

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