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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A true masterpiece of modern horror, Dec 10 2008
REC is quite simply one of the best modern horror films of the last 20 years. The cinema verite docu-horror style has been done to death in unsuccessful ways (Diary of the Dead are Cloverfield are particularly weak attempts) but REC single-handedly renews faith in the effectiveness of this style.
Of note is the wonderfully intense performance by Manuela Velasco who plays Angela Vidal, the main character. She is amazingly natural and her performance elicits real tension in the viewer. Perhaps the greatest thing about REC is that it's actually frightening. Imagine that - a horror movie these days that is actually scary! I've watched REC several times and its effect has not dulled, even after seeing the ridiculous US remake, Quarantine. The REC/Quarantine comparison is exemplary of how even a shot-for-shot remake can ruin a concept when there is a lack of talent involved.
Buy this movie - it is a modern horror masterpiece.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Now THAT is a good horror movie!, Jan 29 2009
This movie is simply scary, intense and wonderful! Try to think about the scariest movie you've seen... now watch REC! It will eat it alive! If a horror movie is supposed to scare the S-word out of you, make you nervous, feel akward, make you not want to sleep in total darkness, then REC is a Horror movie a capital H.
Plot: Some reporter has to make a report on what happens during the night in the local fire station. It gets a call, nothing big, domestic disturbance by some old lady living in an appartement. Nothing serious, until they get to the place and "meet" the old lady. From there... it's totally out of control, realistic and super scary! Everything happens from the point of view of the cameraman. The feeling you get from watching this thing is simply indescribable. You forget you're in a movie and can't help but feel so helpless and weak! Now that's a horror movie! You also always kind of have a slight idea of what's coming, but the movie gets you every time when you think you are off-guards. "I know what's going to happen"... maybe but you don't know how, when or why!
It makes Cloverfield, the Blair Witch Project or Diary of the Dead seem like Barney the Dinosaur or stuff your grandma would film on a sunny afternoon in Ohio. It gives goosebumps! The best first-person type of movie ever! When this movie got famous in every fantastic movie festivals around the world, Sony Pictures bought the rights to the movie, blocked it from entering the "domestic market" of North America and arranged to film a quick remake/ripoff before too many people could see it, gave it a cheap marketing strategy and threw it across the land so people could think Hollywood producers are creative geniuses... unfortunately for them, "Quarantine" was seen as a cheap joke of a movie compared to the original, even when reproduced exactly shot by shot to the original. That's how good it is! Finally, after failling to reproduce foreign genius, they are releasing REC so people can see what a masterpiece it is!
Watch it in darkness, with someone and with the sound jacked-off. Best horror movie since the "Exorcist" maybe so don't miss it! Will certainly make you believe in the power of horror movies again and feel like a child. Buy it, it's valuable stuff.
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Quarantine was better, May 6 2009
Maybe because i saw quarantine 3 times and then Rec i think Quarantine is better, but i was so scared watching Quarantine. I watched it on my laptop w/ a headset in the dark, so i was all into the movie since it was in my face w/out interruptions. In Quarantine, you could really hear the infected people breath, like all laboured and weird, which freaked me out in the beginning. But in Rec, the guy filming breaths so loud, you cant hear the infected that well. With Quarantine i wanted to stop the movie like 5 times, especially towards the end when all hell broke lose. But with Rec i was just watching calmly. In Quarantine the quality is better, i mean, they tape the bad guys better, like you see them a lot more and clear. Also, some parts in Quarantine were done better than Rec, like when the health inspector comes in and drills into the cop's head to take a sample, it was so close up and gross and scary, in Rec they didnt do that. And the main lady who plays Angela did a way better job being freaked out in Quarantine, like she couldnt even talk in the end, thats how scared she was, she basically lost it, she wasnt thinking straight. But both movies are exactly the same story. I guess my taste is just different from the other reviews on this movie. I would highly reccomend buying or renting both of them, but i would own Quarantine and watch it again instead of Rec.
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