The [REC] Trilogy is about a zombie outbreak that occurs in Spain. The first two (2007, 2008) are directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza. The third (2012) is only done by Paco Plaza. The first two are good and scary horror films, with a whopping 96% and 69%. The style of filming is the "found footage, shaky-cam, only cameras are the ones the characters happen to be using at the time." Fortunately for them, that style was just starting to become popular and had not yet been totally beaten to death. There was a shoddy American remake that I won’t even bother mentioning. I HIGHLY recommend checking them out if you are looking for a good scare.
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| 96% |
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| 33% |
To try to somewhat defend this movie, it only has 6 ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. That's not to say that more critic reviews wouldn't just lower the average.
I purposely talked about how great the first two movies are on purpose. Just to be clear, we are now talking about how smart the stupidest kid in the class is. [REC]3 has fallen into the genre of terri-great. It is so terrible it is great. Maybe Jaume Balagueró was keeping this ship afloat, because Paco Plaza made a completely different movie; a horror movie with very few scares that was a fun, tongue-in-cheek, comedic, gorefest. It is 80 minutes long. The movie starts off with the traditional feel of the first two and about halfway through, it turns fantastically sour.
The movie quickly turns into a gory shockfest while laughing your ass off at what is happening to these characters. It has its moment but all in all it is just terrible and fun to watch. I haven't enjoyed something this terri-great since Piranha 3D. Something you must watch with a group of friends.
