Week 167 - [Rec]

Reviews / Author Comments due: 02/08/2014
Position on TimeOut list: 54
More Info: Wikipedia, IMDB
DVD: Link

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[Rec] - Will's Review

Spanish found footage movie: A reporter and her cameraman accompany a fire crew to what should be a routine call-out to an elderly lady apparently trapped in her apartment. Things quickly go awry when the lady appears to be suffering some kind of violent hysteria, and the health department seal everyone inside and declare the apartment complex a quarantine. 

[REC] - Lisa's Review

It's getting good climbing the Time Out 100 best horrors list... for one thing the movies keep getting better.  It's definately been more positive than negative of late and the same is the case for this weeks movie - [REC].

Weird title I hear you say, and yes, it is.  I'm sure it's something we all recognise as the abbreviation for 'Record'.  The title also has the little red circle which also denotes 'recording'.  As the movie is a 'found footage' movie taken on a video camera by a Spanish TV crew, the title makes sense.  The found footage in question is from the Spanish reality TV show 'While you were sleeping', which tasks itself with following people who make their living while the rest of the world are sleeping.  This movie is taken as the crew follow a Barcelona fire crew; pretty young presenter Ángela (Manuela Velasco) and camera man Pablo (Pablo Rosso).