Horror Theater Video rec spanish zombie film review

No spoilers are given in this review.

Move over "Blair Witch"; get in the back seat "Diary Of The Dead"; go back to sleep like you did for audiences "Cloverfield". Here comes the country of Spain to show you how to do it correctly.

Winner of 13 international film festivals, "Rec" follows Angela (Velasco) the host of a Spanish night time show called "While Your Asleep", a show that follows workers that keep the city moving while everyone else is sleeping. Along with her camera man, the film opens at her current assignment, a local firehouse, and is filmed completed thru the camera lenses' point of view and completely on location. No sets were pre-made for this film.

After quickly interviewing the fire company, she tells her camera man that she expects it to be a slow night due to the fact if there isn't a fire or another emergency, this show will be a waste of time.

To sum this up without giving a thing away, the fire house gets a call from the police who need assistance to remove an old lady who had locked herself in her apartment, and the other tenants claim to hear unearthly screaming coming from there. Upon there arrival they witness the attempt of the police captain of removing the elderly lady, when suddenly she screams and begins biting the captain on the neck. As everyone else runs out, one of the fire men is forced to shoot and kill the lady. Suddenly outside the building other police and trucks arrive. Every one inside assumes they are coming to assist them, but the outside workers lock down the building so nobody can get out. Over a megaphone, they are told there was some sort of toxic "accident" and they must have their blood tested before that are allowed to leave.

But times goes by and no one comes in, and all inside begin to panic. Suddenly one by one others begin to get sick. This is all taking in by the viewfinder of the camera brought in by Maria and her cameraman. What they see cannot be believed and is first to have started from one source, but as the film moves on, a much more complex incident has caused this grotesque event.

Does any one get out alive? Will Maria get to show the world what really happened inside the building? Well, most of you may have a while before finding out. The DVD has yet to be released in the U.S., and most foreign discs are Spanish Language only. I was lucky enough to submit this review after seeing a screener with English subtitles, which helped a great deal to understand the sometimes complex plot. The tension will have you squirming in your seat, scene after scene. It does start off a tad slowly as Maria is interviewing the fire house, but you will not take your eyes of the screen once they arrive at the apartment. The film is technically more polished than the three films I mentioned in the start of this review, and the technology is not used to give the viewer motion sickness. It is a straight-on, first hand account of a small group of people with a very large, and deadly problem.

We will post on our website when the film will be arriving here in the states. Until then, unless you have an all region player..... :(

My Rating:

REVIEWED BY tony bernardini