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[Rec] (2007)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:20

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7.7/10

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Director: Jaume Balaguero

Director: Jaume Balaguero

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Directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, rising stars in the Spanish horror scene, create a buzzing urgency in a familiar premise...

Full Review Source: Seanax.com | comment Comment
07/13/09
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seanax.com

Not since John Carpenter's one-shot intro to Halloween has POV horror been this good.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
04/29/09
Jason Morgan
Jason Morgan
Filmcritic.com

This short, stripped-down, first-person horror picture delivers some brutally effective shocks and gradually conjures a haunting atmosphere of ever-escalating panic and despair.

Full Review Source: Miss FlickChick | comment Comment
03/01/09
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
Miss FlickChick

Impressiona pelo ritmo, pelas atuações, pela intensidade e pela excepcional edição de som, revelando-se sempre tenso e, nos melhores momentos, absolutamente assustador.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
11/14/08
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

This Spanish horror thriller is based on a great idea that takes a new bite at the zombie genre, combined with a different way of telling the story," says Andrew

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
10/25/08
Andrew L. Urban
Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile

A well-made funhouse ride of pure terror and near-breathless dread.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
10/09/08
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

[Rec] is one of the few genuinely creepy horror films to come along in the past few years.

Full Review Source: Mike Bracken's Horror Films | comment Comment
10/08/08
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken's Horror Films

[REC] is ridiculously good. It's a show-stopping terror trip through something that really shouldn't work all that well.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
08/21/08
Bill Gibron
Bill Gibron
PopMatters

A demonic, barnstorming, cinema verite horror experience that pulls few punches, fears no genre taboo, and reaches for the throat with delightful intimidation.

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment Comment
07/31/08
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com

einai akoma kalytero apo oso akoygetai, kai oti tha 'thelan na ginoyn otan megalosoyn oi shetikes prospatheies apo The Blair Witch Project (1999), mehri The Zombie Diaries (2006), Diary of the Dead (2007) i Cloverfield (2008)

Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment Comment
06/29/08
Joseph Proimakis
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses

i usually hate these movies, but i kinda liked this one

Full Review Source: sbs.is | comment Comment
05/19/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
sbs.is

At its best, "[REC]" is a stress test, with genuinely frightening and surreal use of grainy, fidgety camerawork and eerie night-vision.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
04/24/08
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
N/R

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04/15/08
BBC

An unexceptional workout for the adrenaline glands nudged up several notches by a climax that will cause muchos trouser trauma to all but the recently deceased.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
04/11/08
Matt Glasby
Matt Glasby
Channel 4 Film

Gripping, unsettling and truly horrific, [REC] is much more than the gimmick suggested by its title. Prepare to squirm, wince and wonder at how a potential Blair Witch knock-off is quite so grimy and engrossing. And don’t eat dinner before you see it.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
04/11/08
Mark Salisbury
Mark Salisbury
Total Film

The final reel is real eyes-behind-your-fingers type stuff with the filmmakers cranking up the audience's apprehension to I-really-would-rather-be-somewhere-else levels.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
04/11/08
Tim Evans
Tim Evans
Sky Movies

A brilliantly staged early scare signals that the safety rails are off and, despite an unexpected, last-minute swerve into the supernatural realm, the edge-of-the-seat tension is sustained to the very last second.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment 1 Comment
04/11/08
Nigel Floyd
Nigel Floyd
Time Out

Even thought it's the third such effort to employ handheld camera in a zombie flick, this has more than enough shocks to hold its own.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/11/08
Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine

...boasts a number of brutal and unexpectedly creepy interludes that instantly set it apart from its stylistically-similar yet thoroughly inferior brethren...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
04/10/08
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

While utterly nihilistic in its attempts to disorient the audience, the directors keep "[REC]" a consistently terrifying experience with some of the most gruesome deaths filmed...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/10/08
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
 
 
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