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Directors: Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza

Release Date: 11 April 2008

Tagline: One Witness. One Camera.

Main Cast:

Manuela Velasco … Ángela Vidal

Ferran Terraza … Manu

Jorge Serrano … Policía Joven (as Jorge Yamam Serrano)

Pablo Rosso … Pablo

[.REC] is by far the best of the first person films I’ve seen and is really quite creepy and powerful. The tension builds slowly and then all Hell breaks loose! It follows a TV crew that are filming the night shift of a fire station. They are called out to what seems to be a routine job at an apartment block to assist the police with forcibly entering one of the flats. What they find there, however, is far from routine.

I found it much easier to watch than The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield as there is far less erratic camera movement. It also has a degree of believability about it and has a great ending.

I’m not sure that a first person film will ever be truly outstanding as I just don’t think that the style lends itself to brilliance. [.REC] is, however, a very worthwhile film and no self respecting horror fan should miss it.

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