[REC] gets is name from the red flashing recording light on the front of your camcorder, and it may just be the greatest Zombie flick ever! [REC] follows a local camera crew doing an article on what happens in a fire station at night, after a while there is a call that a lady is having “some problem, she may have fallen over” so they go to break her door down. Once in side the building, they go to aide the poor woman, and she bites into the jugular of the nice helpful fireman. From here on be Zombie fun! The building is then sealed by a biohazard team to keep the possible infection to a minimum with the camera crew, firemen and residents inside!

Oh, by the way it’s a subtitled Spanish film, but all the best films are, if you refuse to see subtitled films you’re an idiot!

[REC] is filmed the entire way through with the reporters camera, think Cloverfield and its many hand-held film friends (every film soon may be handheld first person, we owe it all to The Blair Witch Project). I do like these immersive no sound track films, minimal (obvious) editing trying to pass themselves off as documentaries, but I don’t want too many more. The camera does occasionally get hit or knocked into a wall and sound or vision goes for a few seconds. The lights do turn off regularly, although you know the second the lights go back on the zombie will be millimetres from the cameras lens its still kinda scary (watch the crowd jump!) The film does resemble Right At your Door with the claustrophobic trapped within in a building filled with a killer disease.

[REC] is a great horror film with a few minor twists and quite a good explanation for the zombies. It is way better than George A. Romero’s Diary Of The Dead which was out last month, and I think its time for George to pass the zombie torch to the Spaniards!

NB: this film already has a remake coming out in August renamed Quarantine, this has to be the fastest remake ever, and I thought this years Hulk film was too early for a remake!

by Davie Price