{"id":5095,"date":"2010-10-15T21:09:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T01:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=5095"},"modified":"2015-10-20T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:04:12","slug":"rec-2007-jaume-balaguero-paco-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/5095","title":{"rendered":"[Rec] (2007, Jaume Balaguer\u00f3 &#038; Paco Plaza)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a great horror movie set in Barcelona (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5013\">Carriers<\/a><\/em> was directed by Barcelonans but set in the U.S., a missed opportunity).  Although, it takes place entirely inside one small apartment building, so it could have been set anywhere &#8211; which was Hollywood&#8217;s point when they remade it in English as <em>Quarantine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/rec1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The most fun thing about this movie is that the cinematographer (Pablo Rosso) is also a lead character, a news cameraman following young reporter Angela (Manuela Velasco of the upcoming <em>Spiderland<\/em>, which I&#8217;m hoping is a Slint bio-pic).  I&#8217;m not up-to-date on my Spanish horror viewing, so haven&#8217;t seen any of these actors before.  IMDB says the leads return for <em>[Rec] 2<\/em>, but I don&#8217;t see how that&#8217;s possible since everybody dies at the end.  I don&#8217;t get why a sequel (plus two more in development) would be desirable either &#8211; having flashbacks of the hilariously stupid <em>Blair Witch 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/rec4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Fluff reporter Angela is following fire fighters for a night when they&#8217;re called to an apartment to check on a disturbance.  Said disturbance is the old woman upstairs eating one of her neighbors.  They soon find out they&#8217;re being sealed inside the building by the Spanish CDC, and that people the old woman bites seem to become flesh-eating zombies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/rec3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Panic ensues.  There&#8217;s a nervous, power-crazed cop who likes to draw his gun, a cute widdle girl and her mother, a young doctor, and some more zombie-fodder residents.  The fireman and the reporter\/cameraman nearly escape but he gets bitten.  The news crew lock themselves in the penthouse, where a crazy (you can tell because there are newspaper clippings all over the walls) but organized (if the clippings weren&#8217;t enough of a plot device, there&#8217;s a tape machine) mad scientist was conducting experiments on a zombie&#8230; who is&#8230; STILL IN THE APARTMENT OH MY GOD AND it kills them both and that&#8217;s the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a great horror movie set in Barcelona (Carriers was directed by Barcelonans but set in the U.S., a missed opportunity). Although, it takes place entirely inside one small apartment building, so it could have been set anywhere &#8211; which was Hollywood&#8217;s point when they remade it in English as Quarantine. The most fun thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,1140,233,54,189],"class_list":["post-5095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-barcelona","tag-digital-video","tag-horror","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10580,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions\/10580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}