Solo Review: [REC] (2007)

When fearless reporter Angela tags along with a company of Firemen on a routine midnight call, the terror of her big mouth and disregard for anything other than the damned camera filming her, begins!

Apparently, the fat chick from the Dawn of the Dead remake is back, and is trying to eat people in her quaint little apartment building, so the Firemen, along with two bumbling Cops, try to help her, and end up fucking up so bad that everyone ends up screwed. They kill her 24 times to no avail, and finally decide to lock her in a room with a ham, hoping she will choke to death. Does the daring plan work? You'll see... 

Thought I was kidding, didn't you?

Once bitten, the new infected zombies get really mad and try to eat everyone else; one little girl even tries to eat her mother... that creepy little fuck. They start dropping like flies, these Spaniards, until there are only three of them left; thank god the guy with the camera and the loud-mouth twit of a reporter are two of them. The rest of the movie is a cat-ansd-mouse survival type of thing, with the jerk-off FEMA team ordering the tenants at gunpoint to remain in the building and "await instructions." If by "await instructions" they mean "Stay in there and die, or we will shoot you ourselves," then they got their point across. Apparently FEMA sucks in Europe too.

I won't spoil the ending for you here, but trust me when I say that you will poop your pants, and perhaps even the pants of those near you when you see it. (I know I never expected to see Barbara Walters naked with a hammer in this movie.)

Keep crawling... you're almost free lol!

I don't think I've seen a movie ending as terrifying as this one in a long while; the last 10 minutes of [REC] absolutely changed the movie for me, and took it to a much creepier place than just your standard "Infected people turning into killer zombies" fare. I loved the twist, and would have like to have seen that premise explored more. I'm hoping that [REC] 2 will give me what I want! I don't want to ruin it by saying too much more, but suffice it to say that the place where the virus comes from makes me giddy. I want to see an entire movie dedicated to that subject matter.

She looks lost.

[REC] is definitely frightening in a lot of ways, and especially the premise; an unknown virus turning everyone around you into flesh eating madmen, while you're locked in a building with them and can't get out... now that's a story that makes for some intense moments. The shaky-cam thing that is so popular in movies lately (thanks for that one, Cloverfield), is a bit distracting, but not to Blair Witch proportions. Once the creepiness begins though, you'll barely notice it.

Still crawling lol

It always drives me crazy in these movies when people wont shut up when they need to be as quiet as possible. I mean, let's scream, argue while screaming, and scream some more while we're fighting for our lives against a bunch of rabid zombies! Stupido.

If this situation were real, the camera wouldn't be used as much, and later on in the film it would be shut off completely... then again, if they did that, there wouldn't be a movie, so I digress. Still, the reporter chick didn't need to wheedle her way in front of the camera every chance she got.

Scream louder, I don't think the Demon in the room behind you heard that.

How someone didn't smack the reporter bitch in the face multiple times throughout this movie is beyond me. "Evil is after us, dummy... how about you don't scream!?!?!"

Manuela Velasco a QT, that's why no one smacked her.

This one has a good mix of on-screen blood and nastiness, and off-screen violence that you can hear, but can't see. It's not a gore fest, but it's certainly bloody enough. 

El Oucho.

 Dogs are evil, and they are not to be trusted. Neither are kids.

Always with the creepy kids!

One of the most genuinely scary movies to come a long in quite some time, the only reason I didn't give this one an A is because I can't get around the blatantly dumb actions of some of the characters. Other than that, [REC] is well worth a rental or a buy, just see it either way.

B+

[REC] is available now on on DVD and VOD.

[REC] is already being re-made in the U.S. as Quarantine. Look for it in October. Sigh. *Update- Quarantine was nowhere near as good or effective as [REC] was. What a surprise.