[rec] and [rec]^2

Tea_Bag

im really sorry guys, im 100% sure that there is a thread about rec already, seeing as its quite old by now, but alas, the stupid 3 letter search means i cant find it, even with the "[]"

anyway, watched them both last night, and im still buzzing! what a fantastic movie! and the sequel was just as good (although i imagine it wouldn't have been as good had it not been watched back-to-back)
Its the first "shaky cam" film ive ever enjoyed.

5 stars!

Can anyone recommend a similar film for me?

MagicMarker

Quarantine :pac:

Tea_Bag

MagicMarker wrote: »

Quarantine :pac:

yeah, checked it on imdb.... shameful.

"Let me in" :rolleyes::rolleyes: is another one

Zero-Cool

REC and REC 2 are both brilliant. Yeah, 2 doesn't have the same freshness as the first but I thought it was still well done with the different helmet cams and the ending was class!

Let the right one in was excellent. Havn't seen Let Me In but the trailers look like it's being faithful to the original?

PS. Just saw Dexter's missus is the main one in Quarantine. Wonder does she curse as much in that!!

Basq

Not a whole lot worthwhile out there that's like [Rec] or [Rec2].

Similar foreign horrors that are worth a look are Martyrs and L'Interieur (Inside).. nothing like the [Rec] movies, but they're great foreign horror.

[Rec] is still one of my favourite horrors though.

Necronomicon

[Rec] is incredible.

[Rec]2 is a complete and utter turd in my humble opinion.

It's like someone took the script for [Rec] and stapled an exorcism movie onto it. It suffered a complete identity crisis as a result IMO and ultimately wound up a horrible zombie-exorcist mish-mash.

Phony Scott

Necronomicon wrote: »

[Rec]2 is a complete and utter turd in my humble opinion.

You'll find that what you mentioned in that spoiler is mentioned towards the end of the first film. But, yes, I agree, it isn't as good as the first and probably a bad idea.

As for Quarentine, is there no love for this film! Lots of fun daft moments including the camera (our point of view) being used to pummel one of the infected and (brilliant!) the manager who announces that there is a feasible way out of the building. Petty he couldn't have mentioned it earlier before everyone got infected.

kraggy

Am I the only one who thinks Rec was very weak?

Phony Scott

kraggy wrote: »

Am I the only one who thinks Rec was very weak?

Did you see it in the cinema with a decent sound set-up?

MagicMarker

Phony Scott wrote: »

Did you see it in the cinema with a decent sound set-up?

Basq

Phony Scott wrote: »

Did you see it in the cinema with a decent sound set-up?

Was it even released in the cinema here? If it did, it must have been a very limited release.

Phony Scott

MagicMarker wrote: »

Ok, badly put. My point being that you need to see it on a big screen with a decent 5.1 or above sound system, it makes all the difference. I'm pretty sure the IFI in Dublin showed the film Basquille, but for a limited time as you said, though I could be confusing it with REC2. Saw it myself on a DVD with projector and decent sound set-up. The experience is obviously a lot different to, lets say, seeing it on your computer or television. The sound is all important in a film like this.

Phony Scott

Phony Scott wrote: »

Ok, badly put. My point being that you need to see it on a big screen with a decent 5.1 or above sound system, it makes all the difference. I'm pretty sure the IFI in Dublin showed the film Basquille, but for a limited time as you said, though I could be confusing it with REC2. Saw it myself on a DVD with projector and decent sound set-up. The experience is obviously a lot different to, lets say, seeing it on your computer or television. The sound is all important in a film like this.

You can still get an effect for it even if you do watch it on a laptop or TV; it just depends on who you watch it with. As for a lot of horrors, people amassed together tend to echo each other's fears.

Phony Scott

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You can still get an effect for it even if you do watch it on a laptop or TV; it just depends on who you watch it with. As for a lot of horrors, people amassed together tend to echo each other's fears.

That's a completely fair argument. Had to do an assignment for college once and the genre we were studying was Horror, watched most of the classics on a dodgy stereo TV. For a bit of context, that was back in 2000. We watched all the classics of the time along with a few more recent films; Blair Witch, Halloween, Evil Dead and Suspiria (the latter two both cut to ribbons). There was one film which understandably had one girl running out of the room crying; ‘The Entity’ (1981, fully uncut). Suffice to say that some people laughed at the premise of the film and the repetitive soundtrack. The girl (17-ish) didn’t see it that way though, obviously disturbed by the constant raping going on in the film. So, yeah, I’ll agree with you on that.

That said, if you want to experience it at full impact, make it the best theatre experience (in sound in particular) you can go for.

Phony Scott

Phony Scott wrote: »

That's a completely fair argument. Had to do an assignment for college once and the genre we were studying was Horror, watched most of the classics on a dodgy stereo TV. For a bit of context, that was back in 2000. We watched all the classics of the time along with a few more recent films; Blair Witch, Halloween, Evil Dead and Suspiria (the latter two both cut to ribbons). There was one film which understandably had one girl running out of the room crying; ‘The Entity’ (1981, fully uncut). Suffice to say that some people laughed at the premise of the film and the repetitive soundtrack. The girl (17-ish) didn’t see it that way though, obviously disturbed by the constant raping going on in the film. So, yeah, I’ll agree with you on that.

That said, if you want to experience it at full impact, make it the best theatre experience (in sound in particular) you can go for.

You could be right on that - I never went to see [REC] in the cinema, but can understand how it could be a film best suited to that - it's somewhat similar to Cloverfield; I saw it in the cinema with friends and was blown away, but then watched it again by myself on a smaller TV when it was released on DVD and it certainly lost a lot of it's impact.

Necronomicon

Phony Scott wrote: »

You'll find that what you mentioned in that spoiler is mentioned towards the end of the first film. But, yes, I agree, it isn't as good as the first and probably a bad idea.

I know - but it wasn't so much the idea as it was the execution. As a concept it might have had some potential, but they dealt with it horribly IMO.

Phony Scott

Necronomicon wrote: »

I know - but it wasn't so much the idea as it was the execution. As a concept it might have had some potential, but they dealt with it horribly IMO.

For me the execution was bad in the sense that it peaks almost immediately instead of building tension.

Frisbee

[rec] was amazing.

I haven't even bothered to watch [rec]2 I've heard it's that bad.