I take back everything I said about Spanish cinema. I am absolutely thrilled to report that it is still possible to make a genuinely scary and exciting horror movie.<\/p>\n
Recently the zombie genre has become a bit saturated with even the legendary Romero’s work turning to suck. Romero’s latest was called “Diary of the Dead” and the concept was a zombie apocalypse as caught on videotape. Unfortunately it was embarrassingly bad. Excrutiatingly, painfully awful.<\/p>\n
REC utilizes basically the same concept but co-directors Jaume Balaguer\u00f3 and Paco Plaza have done things exactly right. The camera POV adds to the sense of claustrophobia that is aleady delivered by the setting, which I don’t even want to go into because it would be a shame to give anything away. All I can say is this movie wins. It wins Fantasia, it wins horror, it wins zombie and it wins my jaded, cynical, Spanish-cinema-poopooing heart. See this movie. Right now. Do it. That’s an order. Before the US remake, which is currently in the works, comes out.<\/p>\n
5 righteous niqueheads [rating:50]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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