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Movie Review: [REC] By Nouvelle Vague November 20, 2007 You say the words “found footage” to most horror buffs, and they immediately sigh and think back to 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, which may have been a huge indie hit at the box office, but is most often seen as lacking in the entertainment department. So, it was a victim of its own hype, but I don’t count myself as one of its detractors, and I like found footage movies. Yes, they’re cheaply made, but when you strip a horror film of a large budget and studio conventions, you usually end up with a chiller which relies on tension and creativity to be effective. There’s also a heightened level of intimacy with these films, especially if the film is advertised as “real” and the more emotionally invested you are in the film, the easier it is for you to be scared. I’m not sure I would call three films in one calendar year a renaissance, but there have been three very good films in this genre: The Poughkeepsie Tapes, Paranormal Activit
’m writing these words with a slightly elevated heart rate, a parting gift from the nightmare fuel that is [REC]. This Spanish-made film, directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza and released there in 2007, had no formal U.S. theatrical run—thanks to Sony Pictures’ decision to concentrate its energy on the English-language remake QUARANTINE instead. I’d passed up QUARANTINE in favor of viewing what I’d heard was the far superior film completely unspoiled, and having seen Sony’s U.S. DVD of [REC] (coming July 14) at long last, I have only this to say: It’s completely worth the wait. I tend to deem a horror movie as a success if I find myself gnawing on my nails while watching it, but with this doozy, I had to forcibly extract my fingers from my mouth on multiple occasions. Our leading lady (she’s not heroic enough to be a “heroine”), Angela Vidal (Manuela Velasco), is no intrepid girl reporter with a nose for the news; rather, she’s the cute, pigtailed host of a show called WHILE YOU’
Some of the best, and most effective, scares of any movie in a long time. There have been quite a few “handheld” horror films to come out in a last couple of years. Most audiences were initiated to this subgenre with the nausea inducing Cloverfield where the film was supposed to be happening in real time as a monstrous disaster was crippling New York City. The legendary George A. Romero, father of the modern zombie film, even had a go at this with his last limited release Diary of the Dead. Long before Romero’s flick debuted, and just a few months before Cloverfield a Spanish duo released a low budget film by the name of REC. Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s film has edged out all of its competition and packed quite an effective punch since it’s release over a year and a half ago. For the full review, click on the link below: Sources: http://www.popsyndicate.
