[REC]

Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza, 2007, Spain, 78 min

Saskatchewan Theatrical Premiere, One Screening Only
Saturday, September 25 2010, 7:00pm, The Roxy Theatre
$8 (Admittance restricted to persons over 18)
Film contains extreme violence and language

Short Description
Official Site: movies.filmax.com/rec (Spanish)

A TV reporter several firemen and a few tennants are trapped within an apartment and must fight to survive as they zombies attack them from within the building. [REC] is the original Spanish film which the Hollywood horror film Quarantine is based off. Be sure to stick around after [REC] and watch the sequel.

The Buzz

"Superbly acted, brilliantly directed and absolutely bloody terrifying, this is one of the best films of the year." - ViewLondon

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

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

Synopsis

Angela is a young reporter for a local TV channel and goes around with her cameraman every night in search of different collectives of people. Tonight they’ll be covering the local firemen and she secretly hopes for an opportunity to capture the story of a great fire. But the night remains very calm. When they finally receive a call from an old lady who is trapped inside her house, she has no other choice but to follow the firemen and cover their "rescue mission". When they arrive, the see that the neighbors in the old lady’s building are very frightened. They have been hearing horrifying screams from inside the old lady’s apartment… The firemen break down the door of the apartment and are followed by Angela and her cameraman. They find the old lady semi-conscious and surrounded by dozens of cats. Suddenly, the old lady jumps on a fireman and starts to bite him like a wild animal to the astonishment of his colleagues… and also right in front of the camera lens.

It’s just the beginning of a long nightmare and of a uniquely dramatic report never seen before on TV: when the other firemen take away their wounded colleague, they discover that the only exit in the entire building has been blocked by the authorities. The building has been quarantined. Apparently, a strange virus has spread inside the building. The fire squad, the neighbors and the TV crew are stuck inside the building, where new victims are slowly becoming infected due to the propagating virus. It’s turning them into vicious, bloodthirsty beings. The key to everything seems to lie in one of the apartments, only there less and less sane people left and time is running out. Angela and her cameraman finally have the opportunity of a lifetime to cover the most important report of their careers but, what price will they have to pay in order to record it all on camera?"

Screens With the Short Films

• Inferno of the Dead
• 36 Sous Sol

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