[Rec]²

Plot synopsis:
Reporter Ángela Vidal (Manuela Velasco), and her cameraman Pablo, are covering the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the documentary television series While You're Sleeping. While they are recording, the firehouse receives a call about an old woman, Mrs. Izquierdo, who is trapped in her apartment and screaming. Ángela and Pablo accompany two of the firefighters, Álex and Manu, to the apartment building, where two police officers are waiting. As they approach the old woman becomes aggressive and attacks one of the officers, biting his neck.
As they carry the injured officer downstairs, they find the building's residents gathered in the lobby. The police and military have sealed off the building and trapped them inside. As people begin to panic, Álex, who remained upstairs with the old woman, is thrown over the staircase railings and seriously injured. The old woman then kills a girl, and the remaining officer, Sergio, is forced to shoot her. Ángela and Pablo begin interviewing the residents, including a sick little girl named Jennifer. Her mother Maricarmen claims she has tonsillitis, and says her dog, Max, is at the vet because he is sick as well.
The injured are put in the building's textile warehouse. A health inspector in hazmat suit arrives and attempts to treat them. Suddenly, they become aggressive and start attacking other people. The residents flee and Guillem, an intern, is locked in the warehouse. The health inspector explains that they are infected with a virus similar to rabies, and the time in which the disease takes effect varies by blood type. He reveals the disease is traced back to a dog in the apartment building, and Ángela realizes it's Max. When the residents confront Maricarmen, Jennifer turns, vomits blood at her mother's face and flees upstairs.
Sergio handcuffs Maricarmen to the stairs and proceeds upstairs with Manu and Pablo. They find Jennifer but she bites Sergio, who tells the others to leave him. Manu and Pablo find the remaining residents running upstairs as the infected in warehouse have broken down the door. Leaving the handcuffed Mari behind, they enter an empty apartment along with Ángela, a resident called César, and the health inspector, who has been bitten. César mentions that there might be another way out through the basement, where there is a large drain that is connected to the sewers, but says the keys are in Guillem's apartment. The infected health inspector then bites César, forcing Ángela, Manu and Pablo to escape and fight their way up to Guillem's apartment on the third floor.
Having found the key, Ángela and Pablo leave the apartment and find Manu among the infected. The pair are chased upstairs, and take refuge in the penthouse. They discover a tape recorder which explains the virus' origin. The penthouse' owner was an agent of the Vatican. He was researching and isolating an enzyme believed to be the biological cause of demonic possession. He located a possessed young girl named Tristana Medeiros, kidnapped and brought her to the penthouse for research. During this time, the enzyme mutated and became viral. The agent, having no other options, sealed Tristana in the house, presumably to let her die of starvation.
Pablo reaches up with his camera to record around inside the attic. An infected child swipes at the camera and breaks its light, shrouding them in complete darkness. Pablo turns on the night vision and discovers a sealed door. Tristana, now a blind and horribly emaciated figure, emerges and searches the penthouse for food. Ángela and Pablo try to escape, but Pablo is killed by Tristana and drops the camera. Ángela then picks it up and looks through the screen. Seeing Tristana eating Pablo, she panics, trips and drops the camera. The camera continues to record as Ángela is dragged into the darkness screaming.

Tags: violence, murder, claustrophobic

Review:
REC 2 takes the supernatural elements of the first movie and further explores them, which sets it apart from some similar zombie-type films.
REC 2 Continues The Creepy Atmosphere Of It's Predecessor While Giving Something New. I am huge fan of the original horror film "REC," which of course inspired the American remake "Quarantine." So of course, once I heard that they were making the sequel I was up for it completely.
While I'm not sure I could have the same experience with REC 2, the movie is still a great horror film.REC 2 starts almost immediately after the events that took place in the first film, and follows members of the S.W.A.T. team going to the apartment complex from the first film.
We learn, without giving too much away, that the virus is much more than what we thought it was, something that leads back to the Vatican and religion in general.While I wouldn't say the second film is as scary as the first, it still carries the creepy atmosphere set up in the first REC.
the film turned out okay in the sense that it carried exactly from were REC finished and satisfied me with blood and jumping out of my seat scenes..but i really did't that much, also the demonic creatures, which we end up finding out about, thus creating the background story which wasn't very pleasing but fair.
Later on , they meet the TV journalist named Angela Vidal(Manuela Velasco) .This sequel to one of the highest earning horror movies of the last years titled ¨Rec¨ is realized in similar premise to original that is remade by an American adaptation, titled ¨Quarantine¨ directed by John Erick with Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez and Steve Harris .
The first Rec was one of the better horror films i had seen in recent years and because of that success it's no surprise that it spurned a sequel so soon.
That makes the movie all the more real.Again, picking up the scenery and sets from the first "Rec" movie makes for a good scenery with a constant underlying sense of dread and claustrophobia.The make up on the infected were good, and the effects were nice as well.Again the camera work was amazing, makes you feel like you are right there in the middle of the chaos.
The way the movie is shot works so well, it is like participating in a superb horror game.Now, what I didn't like about "Rec 2" was the whole possession and Christian propaganda approach they had decided to turn the story to.
However, that didn't stop it spawning a sequel, which takes place immediately after the events in the first film.If you haven't seen REC then stop reading and watch it now.
There are some other characters added a little way into the film, but that feels like an interruption as you've done your best to follow (and care about) the initial team before this new lot are thrown into the frying pan.It's not as good as REC, but in a world of terrible cash-in sequels, it certainly stands out as one of the better ones (which is more than I can say for 'REC3')..
The first REC was a taut, economical horror movie that somehow seemed wholly original while combining this decade's most played-out horror movie subject-- zombies-- with this decade's most played-out horror movie gimmick-- filming in the first-person with a hand-held camera.REC 2 ups the originality of the first REC while seemingly keeping the elements that made the first REC scary (well thought-out jump scares and genuinely creepy creature effects), yet still falls completely flat.
In a plot that picks up right where the first movie left off, with a swat team preparing to enter the quarantined building after having lost contact with the team sent into the building in the first film, the directors waste no time in getting to the action.
Getting to the main point of my LOVE and HATE that I have for rec, I think it was said best from a previous review that the main difference between these two movies....and this may be a semi spoiler behind the infection...is that the first one is more of a scientific infection while the second film is more of a religious infection.
4/10 Third, the review for Rec and horror fans..If you're not a DIE HARD zombie fan, and loved the first one as a good horror movie, this film may be seen as a pretty cool sequel.
This is much more of a hybrid genre film than the original, as the surprising diabolic possession angle inserted at the end of [.REC] is elaborated on here, pretty much swamping the traditional zombie action to take center-stage.Personally, I was not overly bothered by this change in direction – after all, demons are far more interesting than mere zombies!
I watched REC last year and i got shocked by its unique vision and story telling with realistic characters in full motion.Easy to say that Descent,REC and Eden Lake were the best horror movies of 2009.
I decided to check the reviews here on IMDb and just as I thought..6 out of 7 people already said what I think..Extremely shallow characters from the worst cliché, a poor storyline that practically destroys everything the first REC has built and (from my point of view, the worst of all) the same sequence repeating over and over with the same sound effects and the most annoying camera work ever...I just couldn't continue watching..
The encounter / action sequences are more intense and thrilling than REC.Though i got to accept REC looked more original because of shaky camera movement and the buildup of the story, here in REC 2 it looked more of a normal movie than a real time recording of incidents.Overall a fine horror flick and i will have to admit that it is a perfect sequence of REC.
REC2 is a very good example of how sequels should be made: it is fun to watch, is independent enough from its precedent, but it also follows up where REC left off, and it completes the story, even answering some questions that the original movie posited.
It is preferable that you should watch REC first before watching REC2, but not absolutely necessary to enjoy this one on its own right.The setting is still the same, as is the scenario: there's a mysterious infection that is turning the people it kills into blood-ravishing zombies (although, as usual in this subgenre, the word "zombi" is never used here, and it could be argued that these are actually zombies -but that's beside the point), and this time, a SWAT squad is entering the building in order to control the infection.
The people who watched REC will find some nice surprises along the way in this movie, too.I liked the acting, and I especially enjoyed the three young kids' job, I thought it was excellent.My rating: 9/10..
rec was an awesome movie....after seeing rec...i was looking forward for the next part......i had already made up my mind that the sequel could not have been better than the original.....after watching it....i was proved wrong...seldom it happens that a sequel is even close to the original......the movie incorporates many twists and turns and the fact that it wasn't a biological nuclear threat but a demonic angle....blew me away..compelling me to watch further...things also got interesting when the girl from the previous part is reintroduced ..this movie gave me even more reasons to wait eagerly for rec 3....overall its 8/10....direction6/10....acting 8/10.....cinematography 10/10.....story 8/10..babewatch(for guys) 2/10.
"Rec 2" is the second movie of the Rec trilogy and the story continues where the first one finished but in this one we watch a group of SWAT to enter this building with a medical officer to control the situation and to see what happened to the sealed off apartment.I liked this second movie because of the storyline and how that continues and I believe that Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza for one more time did a great job.
I loved the first Rec() movie.I loved the sequel as well.It could have been as good as the first movie, but the ending left me feeling like I had been cheated.The acting was good and the tension was high enough to have me leave the room for a smoke.But not for long.This fine horror movie deserves a view, but watch the first movie before the second.Nice little horror flick, even for long time fans of the genre..
There have been other promising horror sequels like Saw, which lost the plot totally after Saw 3.The movie starts off directly from REC and explores more into the origins of the virus.
Yes, I didn't like the sequel very much either.REC 2 takes place a couple hours after the first one, but this go around a S.W.A.T. team is brought in along with a professional scientist guy to deal with whatever's going on inside the apartment building.
WOW, I loved REC, It had some really scary moments, which made me jump a few times.I didn't think REC 2 will better or even as good as the first, but REC 2 was good as the first but not better.I don't want give anything away from this I really enjoyed how they kinda took story from first changed to something total different and which I think was a great idea and it worked really well.This had some really creepy and some scary moments, which made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.if you seen the end of REC, (you know what I am talking about) with The thing was even more scary in this movie.It actually gave me a bloody nightmare.Great sequel, I have already seen this 5 times , I am going to give this movie 8 out of 10..
This provides opportunity to expand perspectives as and when desired, and works really well when they have to escort a doctor from the Ministry of Health (Jonathan Mellor) into the quarantined building on a secret mission which closes the gaps left open in the first REC.Then there's the other thread involving a group of teenagers who decide to break into the sealed building, and while it's a little bit convenient for them to be equipped with a consumer camcorder, ultimately it works well into the story that's being told, allowing perspectives and equipment so critical to the storyline, to be used to enhance the entire narrative, to give it a little more breadth and envelope that sense of bewilderment quite wonderfully, unless of course you dread another shaky-camera-close-up or yet another camera-dropping-on-the-ground shot, which I have to admit the latter gets done a number of times, making you wish for a cameraman with much sturdier hands, or that his peers could get a grip on themselves and not require the documentarian's help most of the time to settle things.Tension is kept high throughout, even though from the first film experience we know what to expect since familiar locations get revisited again, and the same kinds of rabid zombie/vampire/whateveryoucallit comes charging right in your face.
This has the result that the storyline is much more complex and enjoyable to watch.I hope they end the {Rec} series here, but I fear the worst; they most likely milk this cow completely dry as it happens with all horror-flicks...
Employing the use of various types of cameras for us to see the events following the first movie unfold was a good move, as it felt they were trying to build upon what they had already done, rather than just rehash.REC 2 is set 15 minutes after the events of the first movie, and follows a SWAT team sent into the quarantined apartment with a doctor to retrieve certain evidence.
Balaguero and Plaza have left the ending very sequel friendly as they have planned two final films to finish of their story, REC Genesis and REC Apocalypse.As you can see, I have compared this a lot with the first as it still contains many of the traits that made the original so good.
What this movie lacks is good characters, which in the end really hurts the atmosphere of the film as some of the scenes have no emotional impact, and quite frankly some of the characters were downright annoying (the addition of the teenage characters, although it helped the plot along, was the weakest point of the film).Overall, this is a great sequel to a fantastic film, and has established this directing duo as two to look out for in the horror genre.
This film itself is full of people acting ridiculously and making stupid noises.Obviously the main scare feature in this film is the classic (make loud noises when people aren't expecting it) and shock them tactic, which actually cheapens the good effects and overall storyline.I can't help thinking that if this had been made by a company like twisted pictures it would have been a great film..
Whilst I am hesitant to give any film a perfect 10, (REC)2 filled my evening with so many genuine scares, heart racing excitement and an ending to die for - I feel it would be a dis-service to this fantastic film to rate it any lower.The same directors from the much loved original are back and wisely, they know this must be much more than (REC) with a SWAT team so a fantastic back story is introduced that throws just what sort of horror movie this is into question.
The sequel was definitely very successful in continuing the story of the first.Whereas the first Rec took it's time, slowly and steadily, to scare and shock us completely, to the point that by the ending we are completely stunned, Rec 2 starts off with the same tension from the last half of the original.
It was a decent horror, but REC was original, bloody, had guts (in more ways than one), while this sequel is just a pale imitation with a bit of weirdness added to it to keep the audience in check.What can I tell you that will not spoil the film: it is actually not a virus.
I 've just watch this movie yesterday and i'm watch rec 2 cause i'm pretty curious about the rumor and hype surround the original rec because i'm never watch rec before and i'm pretty excited because i heard the cinematography is like cloverfield but just the different this horror so i watched this movie for hope just to be really scared because of it's video style just like the blair witch project or any other similar movie and just expected to be something different than other but i'm surprised when i watch the movie i watched it on movie theater and kind of late 10 minutes and after another 10 minutes what i see is just a group of people wandering around and i was kind of confuse with it story because i never watch the original rec and then while finally the action of the movie is begin to started i thought the action scene it's really similar with favorite game i played left for dead and during the movie i kind of laugh because i thought it just weird for some reason i gotta feeling the director kind of got an inspiration from the video game especially for the shooting scene is not bad i think because it's kind of creative and make the movie more exciting and realistic so overall the movie was really good and entertaining despite it's didn't like a horror movie at all more like an action thriller with it gruesome infected in left for dead in my opinion to whom you people who already watch the original rec i think should give this movie a change to be watch or rented although maybe it's not gonna scary as rec but it's worth watching for it's genre.
A sequel to a horror movie as good as REC is a tall order.
However, I did enjoy this one marginally more than its predecessor thanks to a supernatural plot development that stops it from being just another predictable found-footage zombie/infected movie.In Rec², which continues where the first film left off, a heavily armed SWAT team enters the quarantined apartment building, accompanied by Ministry of Health representative Dr. Owen (Jonathan D.
With these films, I don't want to give away TOO many details in case the person reading this review hasn't seen it yet.While the first film relied heavily on atmosphere and telling a story through unfolding horrific events, building up to the last 10 minutes which exposed a huge amount of explanation while remaining some of the most intense moments in horror history.Rec 2 follows a similar pattern but spends more time expanding on the previous film's climactic ending throughout the film.
Taking place immediately after the events of the first film, REC 2 may lack the sublime quality of its remarkable predecessor & looks more like a rehash of REC than anything else, it nonetheless manages to be very effective in few sequences, does a fine job in momentarily recreating the nerve-wracking tension of the original and even though it's by no means a worthy sequel, it still fares much better than its cash-grab counterparts.Set in the very quarantined location where the events of previous film unfolded, REC 2 concerns a medical officer & 3-men SWAT team who enter the ill-fated apartment building to get a blood sample from a possessed girl in order to develop an antidote for the deadly virus that's responsible for the demonic outbreak amongst the residents.
This is the sequel to the Spanish horror film rec.
Continuing right where Rec (2007) left off, a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into a virus infected quarantined apartment to assist in retrieving some blood samples.The same writer/directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza are back on board with an extra writer Manu Díez in the sequel to the excellent Spanish horror flick.