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[Rec] (2007)

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A team of local TV reporters are following a squad of firemen on night duty. The footage is completely live and their task is to make show about on the life of these professionals who work while we are sleeping. The first job of the night is to rescue an old lady who is trapped inside her apartment but the routine rescue soon takes a sinister turn. Something evil is spreading throughout the building, out of control. Trapped inside, the firemen and the TV crew have to confront an unknown and

Jul 14, 2009

Odeon Sky Filmworks

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All Critics (24) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (1) | DVD (5)

Lazily scripted, without even a pretense of character development or psychological depth, it offers nothing new for genre fans and no reason for mainstream auds to bite.

November 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comments (36)
Variety
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Superbly acted, brilliantly directed and absolutely bloody terrifying, this is one of the best films of the year.

January 14, 2010 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment (1)
ViewLondon

[REC] belongs in your horror library. At the very least you can love this DVD for the film. The movie is that damned good.

July 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Dread Central | Comment

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

July 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Seanax.com | Comment
Seanax.com

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

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment (1)
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.

March 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Miss FlickChick | Comment
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.

November 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | Comment
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

October 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

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

October 9, 2008 Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | Comment
DustinPutman.com

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

August 21, 2008 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment
PopMatters

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

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | Comment
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)

June 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Movies for the Masses

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

May 19, 2008 Full Review Source: sbs.is | Comment

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

April 24, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

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.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

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.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comments (3)
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.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Sky Movies | Comment
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.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment (1)

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.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment (1)
Empire Magazine
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Audience Reviews for [Rec]

I kicked myself for waiting so long to watch this film, when it first came out I was just not in the mood for yet another infection/zombie type movie and with the whole handheld mockumentary style approach... but this turned out to be a damn good flick!! It's a real nail-biter at times and does achieve a level of

November 25, 2011
WrenchLT
Lee ?

Super Reviewer

A TV crew follows firemen into an apartment building on a routine rescue call, but soon find themselves trapped inside the building where the residents have contracted a virus that causes them to turn homicidal. It's basically a mashup of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, and although it's not very

November 1, 2011
366weirdmovies
Greg S

Super Reviewer

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