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[Rec] [Blu-ray]
$49.49
First off, not to be a snob, but please ignore the other review for your own sake. Skip Quarantine completely and go straight for the original as there is simply no comparison. Jaume Balageuero's film is a masterpiece of contemporary horror. I don't want to get into the plot too much but suffice to say people are trapped in an apartment building, they don't know why they've been sealed in and amongst them, deranged zombie-like killers are going haywire; this puts all involved in a bit of a sticky wicket. You need to see the rest. REC packs an amazing ride into 70 minutes on a small budget and is proof what can be done with creativity and the power of suggestion. It is not what we see that usually scares us but what we don't and the directors knew that. Finally, the handheld nature of REC isn't annoying, it's crucial to the experience of the film. It places the viewer in the role of the mostly anonymous cameraman and provides a feeling of claustrophobia and that unsettled squirming-in-your-skin sensation that makes good horror films truly a joy to view. Don't see Quarantine. See REC, turn off the lights and enjoy the ride.

[Rec] (2008 Spanish Movie) (all-region)
$9.95
What a film!!
An Spanish film,recorded in my city, Barcelona.It took me a bit to get involved with this film, because I don't like reality shows.
But, the last 20 minutes are worthy.What an end!!
Gossip: Very soon, "Rec 2" will be on theathers.

[Rec]
$24.96
I had the opportunity recently to catch Quarantine, the 2008 American "re-do" of 2007's [REC]. So I said to myself, "why not give the original a look to see if they were on par with each other." And [REC] was worth the look. But why do I call Quarantine a "re-do" instead of a "re-make", you ask? I'll get to that in a minute.

{REC} is a very well done Spanish film by Jaume Balaguer��� & Paco Plaza that kind of combines the idea of Rage virus infected maniacs from 28 Days Later with the notion that zombies and demonic possession are nothing more than a mutated virus strain. Oh don't worry, I'm not spoiling anything here!

I mean really...both movies ultimately offer no better explanation for the origin of what's going on than any of its predecessors. I'd say that Resident Evil & 28 Days Later make the best attempts to suggest origins for why "zombies" are walking the earth, but even those leave the door wide open to prequels or sequels that change the whole idea of "what started it all."

So enter [REC] with a somewhat unique explanation (a la videogame-esque recording device found by the characters late in the film) of why zombies haunt this story. But before that device is found, our characters go through a Hell of being trapped in a multi-level apartment building with some pretty ghastly creatures. 99% the same story for Quarantine.

The camera work in both movies is unfortunately in the same vein as some recent films that tried to present a more realistic environment with a single hand-held camera capturing all the action, a la Blair Witch, Cloverfield or Diary of the Dead. But all that the hand-held camera work really does is annoy the living dead out of ya.

Somewhere between 2007 & 2008, little known Director John Erick Dowdle basically stole [REC], inserted American actors and released [REC] as a "re-do" in America under the title Quarantine. Yes...I said "re-do" as opposed to "re-make". A re-make is when a director takes an older film, sometimes even a classic, and makes it better. A re-do is when a director takes a film and adds nothing to the original (and in most cases makes it worse). The 2008 version of Quarantine is clearly just a re-do.

I'd recommend catching one or the other for some good fun scares. There is no reason to see both.