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Name: [Rec]
Released: 2008-10-17
Cast: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge Serrano

[Rec]

R
1h 15m
2008

90%

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From executive producers who brought you Quarantine, comes the movie that inspired the terror. 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.

Director:

Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza

Writer:

Jaume Balagueró, Luis A. Berdejo

Cast:

Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge Serrano

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

90%

Critics Consensus: Plunging viewers into the nightmarish hellscape of an apartment complex under siege, [Rec] proves that found footage can still be used as an effective delivery mechanism for sparse, economic horror.

Reviews

EscribiendoCine

Emiliano Basile

Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza manage to thrill us in 80 minutes with a simple story and an already used “documentary” style, but still so powerful... [Full review in Spanish]

[Rec] proves to be an enjoyably jump-inducing ride into the horrific and panicky, moving so fast (in part due to the very short, barely-feature-length running time of 77 minutes) that it’s over seemingly in the same instant that it starts.

It’s the moral imperative of the found-footage formalism that sets REC apart...

Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plazas edge-of-the-seat faux-reportage freakout lets its building of genre layers entrap the viewer

April 10, 2022

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