cool and creepy

Hailed by zombie fans as being the next big thing. I found it rather annoying. Like a child trying to get your attention by being really loud and doing stupid things. This might in part be because of the extremely annoying TV journalist. Bad acting, and loads of it.

Small, obviously low-budgeted horror film that's quite claustrophobic. Has some genuine terrrifying "cat-out-the-closet" moments that are brilliant and uses the diagetic camera really well for this. And the last 15 minutes are gloriously fucked up.

The whole movie is pretty anguishing, but the final act, which I think is pretty long (30 minutes), is vertiginous. The last 15 minutes are... oh boy... you just have too see it for yourself.

Great genre-pic both zombie- and handheldmovie-wise. Better than Paranormal Activity which I actually liked too, more scary than Cloverfield, but the "found-tape"-thing still doesn't have the same effect as when watching Blair Witch the first time. What I especially liked about the movie was the way it gradually took away certain elements in "moviemaking" right at the end - starting with removing the general light and later the camera flashlight, so that only the nightvision remained. Awesome!

Well done overall. For a film that is relying on jump scares, it manages to feel like more than that when you watch it. Not quite reaching the level of, but reminiscent of the greats like Alien and the like.

A tightly stuctured and effective little zombie movie and in the horror-mockomentary subgenre one of least annoyingly executed, probably because the cameraman is largely anonymous unlike Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity and Cloverfield.

Based on the premise, I couldn't have imagined enjoying this. But it is actually done really well. The acting isn't too bad, and the climax and ending is pretty tense.

OMG! Pure terror! I'm shocked!

Having already seen Quarantine there's not much to say about [Rec], which provided the basis for the virtually shot-for-shot American remake. It tells the same story in 15 minutes less, which has to be commended, but Quarantine uses the extra time to build up a wee bit more tension, and is perhaps slightly more polished as a result. There's really very little between them though: both effective, entertaining horrors that make good use of the single-camera docu-footage approach.

I'm not normally one for horror but this was recommended to me. Being in Spanish and with English subtitles did not detract at all from some genuine fright moments and although touching on the Zombi genre it remained genuinely scary unlike the more common 'how to kill a Zombi' style films which are just violent for the sake of it. You will want the lights on when you go to bed after this one!

Very intense, from start to finish. Must see [Rec] 2 right now.