Local news reporter Angela (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman (Pablo Rosso) are filming a puff piece on firefighters and are allowed to tag along on a routine distress call about an old woman who has fallen. Things quickly turn to the weird as the old lady (Martha Carbonell) is pretty upright and spry when they find her. Spry enough to take a chunk out of a cop's (Vicente Gil) neck anyway. Then the health authorities seal the building with no explanation, trapping the reporters and the firefighters in with the building's residents as a mysterious disease begins to take hold of the recently dead.
This entry from Spain is pretty standard "fast zombie" right up until the last ten minutes of the movie, which add a little twist. The story is fine, like I said, it's bog standard. The effects are good, nice and gory, but everything (for me) is ruined by the shaky-cam footage. It is nauseating. There were times where I had to block the TV with my hand and just read the subtitles because it was giving me such a headache. If you are one of those lucky souls who isn't bothered by a camera jiggling everywhere, REC is streaming on Plex. I got it from Netflix, though.
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