[Rec] (2007)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Directors:

Jaume Balagueró
Paco Plaza

Writers:

Jaume Balagueró (writer)
Luis Berdejo (writer)
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Release Date:

23 November 2007 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

One Witness. One Camera

Plot:

"REC" turns on a young TV reporter and her cameraman who cover the night shift at the local fire station...

Plot Keywords:

Fire Station | Apartment Building | Police | Beaten To Death | Hit In The Face

Awards:

16 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Manuela Velasco	...	Ángela Vidal
Ferran Terraza	...	Manu
Jorge Serrano	...	Policía Joven (as Jorge-Yamam Serrano)
Pablo Rosso	...	Pablo
David Vert	...	Álex
Vicente Gil	...	Policía Adulto
Martha Carbonell	...	Sra. Izquierdo
Carlos Vicente	...	Guillem Marimon
María Teresa Ortega	...	Abuela (as Ma Teresa Ortega)
Manuel Bronchud	...	Abuelo
Akemi Goto	...	Japonesa
Chen Min Kao	...	Japonés (as Kao Chen-Min)
Maria Lanau	...	Madre histérica
Claudia Font	...	Jennifer (as Claudia Silva)
Carlos Lasarte	...	César
Javier Botet	...	Niña Medeiros
Ben Temple	...	Médico
Ana Isabel Velásquez	...	Chica colombiana (as Ana Isabel Velásquez)
Daniel Trinh	...	Niño Japonés
Marita Borrego	...	Operadoras Cuartel Bomberos
Jana Prats	...	Operadoras Cuartel Bomberos (as Ana Prats)
Víctor Massagué	...	Niño Buhardilla
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pep Sais	...	(voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Jaume Balagueró
Paco Plaza

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jaume Balagueró		writer
Luis Berdejo		writer
Paco Plaza		writer

Produced by
Carlos Fernández	....	executive producer
Julio Fernández	....	executive producer
Julio Fernández	....	producer
Teresa Gefaell	....	line producer
Alberto Marini	....	co-executive producer
Oriol Maymó	....	line producer

Cinematography by
Pablo Rosso

Film Editing by
David Gallart

Casting by
Cristina Campos

Art Direction by
Gemma Fauria

Costume Design by
Glòria Viguer

Makeup Department
David Ambit	....	special makeup effects artist
Imma Pérez	....	hair stylist
Lucía Salanueva	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Teresa Gefaell	....	production manager
Oriol Maymó	....	production manager
Jesús L. Pérez Villar	....	post-production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Inés Lugo	....	second assistant director
Fernando Sánchez-Izquierdo	....	first assistant director (as Fernando Izquierdo)

Art Department
Pau Albin	....	set dresser
Maruxa Alvar	....	set designer
Nuria Muni	....	property master

Sound Department
Xavier Mas	....	sound
Marc Orts	....	sound re-recording mixer
Filippo Restelli	....	boom operator
Oriol Tarragó	....	sound designer
Oriol Tarragó	....	supervising sound editor
Edgar Vidal	....	foley artist
Edgar Vidal	....	sound editor
Kiku Vidal	....	foley artist

Special Effects by
Enric Masip	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Álex Villagrasa	....	visual effects supervisor

Editorial Department
Quique Cañadas	....	colorist
Marga Villalonga	....	digital intermediate coordinator

Other crew
Sofia Escudé	....	editor assistant
Martin Samper	....	making-of director
Anna Vilà	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Filmax

Distributors

• 3L Filmverleih (2008) (Austria) (theatrical)
• 3L Filmverleih (2008) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Broadmedia Studios (2008) (Japan) (theatrical)
• CDI Films (2008) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Filmax (2007) (Spain) (theatrical)
• Future Film (2008) (Finland) (theatrical) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Golden Village Entertainment (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Mediafilm (2007) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Odeon Sky Filmworks (2008) (UK) (theatrical)
• Paradiso Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) (2008) (UK) (TV)
• California Filmes (2008) (Brazil) (all media)
• Lizard Cinema Trade (2008) (Russia) (all media)
• Paradiso Home Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Rialto Distribution (2008) (Australia) (DVD)
• Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) Worldwide Acquisitions Group
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2008) (Argentina) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Ovide B S  camera equipment provided by

MPAA:

Rated R for bloody horror violence and language.

Runtime:

Argentina:80 min | France:80 min | South Korea:78 min | Netherlands:85 min | UK:75 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Italy:VM14 | UK:18 | Finland:K-18 | Sweden:15 | France:-12 | Australia:MA | South Korea:18 | Germany:18 | Taiwan:R-12 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Hong Kong:III | Argentina:18 | Singapore:NC-16 | Spain:18 | Mexico:B15 | Netherlands:16 | Japan:R-15 | Brazil:16 | USA:R | Portugal:M/16 | New Zealand:R16 | Peru:18

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Company:

Filmax

Trivia:

Made and shot in real locations. No sets were built to make this movie.

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: When the men go to chase Jennifer up the stairwell the shadow of the boom mic can be seen briefly. This shouldn't be there since Pablo is only supposed to have a camera.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Ángela: Good evening, this is Angela Vidal speaking. Tonight, as usual, we will share this time...

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Es bello vivir (2008) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Vudú (Extended Version)

Intense and terrifying horror!!

Viewed at Manchester Cornerhouse Viva film festival. REC is one of the most terrifying and thrilling horror films to come out of recent years, that displays some clever inventiveness along with the traditional 'boo' scares expected of the horror genre. Filmed from the point of view of a local Madrid TV crew who are profiling fire fighters as part of a fly on the wall documentary series. Though the night consists at the beginning of nothing much happening at all, things take an unexpected turn when the crew follow a call out to an apartment where they find a crazed old women who attacks and bites a policemen present, infecting him and turning him into a crazed zombie. Its not long before there chance of finding outside help is stopped as the authority's isolate all the apartment block inhabitants and essentially quarantine them, leading the inhabitants and the TV crew to fight against and avoid the ever increasing zombie infection. REC achieves its scares and intensity through the use of close up point of view camera, that has most notably been used in two American films this year CLOVERFIELD and GEORGE ROMERO'S DIARY OF THE DEAD, and also the night vision sequence in THE DESCENT, where the scare comes from, the camera panning to one side and revealing something you don't want to see. This use of p.o.v makes the film more intense and personal, and interestingly enough, the director who was present at the screening, explained in a Q &A after the film that he didn't tell or inform the cast of what was going to happen in the scenes thereby increasing the realism of there horrified reactions. It's this brilliant style and memorable shocks that lend REC as one of the most clever and inventive horror films of recent memory. Go see it at the cinema, as this is the only way that will make you appreciate the intensity of the film, though be prepared to be exhausted, of ever a film had the mantle of shakiest camera in the world, this is it, and also see it before the Hollywood remake QUARANTINE is released later this year.