[REC] (2008)

Awful.My head was filled with many questions throughout the movie. How do I describe it? Let's say we all are suddenly convinced Jimmy is a zombie, and Jimmy has been an okay guy for the last while. And as we stare at Jimmy, all of a sudden comes this instant conversion. Okay, it can happen. But it seems a little deliberately placed, and such actions like this throughout the movie really break the immersion. Oh, and if Jimmy ran off screaming into a place, and you became aware that there were more infectious monsters than just Jimmy, would you go after him with a needle? Does that seem reasonable? And if Alfred is dumb enough to stand next to a zombie inside its cage, that's possible too; maybe someone is that dumb. Yes, "that's possible", "sure, i guess, if ..." -- great movie when you're fiddling with plausibility the whole time.How I remember the movie: A pointless beginning (follows any news reporter movie: watch a reporter hyped about something for a large chunk of time, get that "persona" rubbed on you before they descend into peril), an almost constant screaming follows, speckled throughout with immersion-breaking moments of questionable plausibility, and you have a thorough waste of time and a childish invention.And I didn't realize that a creature, let's call it an angry dog (for example), would want to drag me off into another room instead of just bite me to death. That was just another immersion-breaking moment, seeing something I'm accustomed to believing is a barbaric nature, decide it wants to drag me away. I guess the director called out to it and said, "No, that isn't a way to finish the movie: Doesn't look so profound! Re-do!"

In this movie a young reporter and a cameraman were investigating the fireman's life. they wanted to go with them to see how they work. they go for help in a dangerous apartment and that's when something terrifying happens. I think this movie was so scary and crazy. I think everyone to go for it. I suggest everyone should watch this movie.

I had high expectations for this, being a huge horror fan and seeing this on many top horror film lists and its rating on this site. Having now patiently sat through the whole thing, I am slightly at a loss as to how it has the rating it has.It has some good features - its unnerving at times, the pacing is excellent and it's a decent zombie runout if you're into that type of thing, but I just didn't find it scary at all. Maybe i've just got used to them, but the whole infection/quarantine/zombie attack thing has already been done a gazillion times and a lot more convincingly than this - its essentially a low budget Shaun of the dead with some questionable acting and without the (intentional) comedy. For one, the plot was utterly unconvincing - full government quarantine within 6 minutes of a box standard fireman call (and 1 minute from when they realised it there was a problem) ? The ridiculous commitment of the cameraman and the female lead to their jobs as everyone around him gets ripped to shreds by zombies? The fact they shut in the place down in the first 10 minutes when everyone could have got out safely there and then? Why, if they knew what was going on, wouldn't they just go in and shoot everything already infected?If it didn't try to be something other than a standard entertainment scare-fest that focuses less on trying to be a 'good' film in its own right then it wouldn't matter - but it doesn't and it isn't even particularly scary.If you're after the kind of film that makes you want to look away and crawl up into the foetal position in fear, then stick to the 'sinister,' 'the conjuring' or 'the ring' types. "The orphanage" is another Spanish horror, and its not only a lot more scary but an infinitely better film in its own right. Intelligent, suspenseful, innovative and really well shot. But, unless you're after a low budget zombie flick with psychotic grandmas and a questionable narrative arc, then its probably worth giving this one a miss.

The movie does a good job on setting you in a real-life situation with zombies. It's not like those ones that look like a joke and that you're all the time thinking "oh, this is a zombie movie." Instead, you watch the movie trying to understand what is going on. In that way, the movie keeps you on your toes. However, I must say that the leading character screams way too much. It seems stupid to be running or hiding from something and at the same time screaming your lungs out. Going to the last part of the movie, I was just too annoyed by the unnecessary screaming, it just ruined what could have been a great (and more silent) finale.