[REC] Review - Off The Shelf Reviews
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- This week Gary and Iain review and discuss, [REC] (2007) by Directors, Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza. Starring, Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza and Jorge-Yamam Serrano.
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REC is a classic horror. It’s just done so well, very scary, intense, and even if you don’t like found footage, this movie just works. Also, def need to watch it over the remake Quarantine. REC is WAY better
Most of the reactions were genuine cause the director who also played pablo casted them on their improv and had a very loose script also the fact that they didn't tell the actors about the jump scares to make their reactions that much realer
@@borntodismember Blair Witch SUCKED (yes I'm still mad that I stood in line in the cold for hours to see it thinking that shit was real like an idiot). REC on the other hand rocked. No fan of "found footage" but if you are going to do it, REC did it right IMHO.
Where can i watch it for free?
@@-harou- sometimes the movie is on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, in Spain we have all the REC franchise on Disney+ 😅 (in Europe it have all the Hulu content in the same platform with horror films like Alien, Predator, The Fly, Barbarian, The Menu, etc)
Boy, that character’s accusation of the Chinese causing the outbreak because of their diet didn’t age well.
lmao
Aged like wine
haha
In hindsight it was brilliant. The chinese are responsible for Covid, one way or another.
Rec and Rec 2 are intense movies. The best in the genre. Rec 3 and 4 well let's pretend they don't exist. I actually thought the origins of the virus being supernatural vs biological was a brilliant twist on the genre.
I don't even binge watch movies anymore i just binge watch off the shelf reviews lol , Amazing and addictive show. Incredible dynamic between these guys always have great insight and energy.
lmao same even with videogame xD
Chinese coking causing a viral outbreak, fuck me youtubes recommendation system has odd timing
As a Spaniard, I really appreciated how realistic the dialogue and acting were, considering that’s kinda rare nowadays in the films we release.
Love this film. Great thrill ride. Even love the supernatural element. It's escalation. Film turns from 28 Days Later to Evil Dead. A nightmare getting worse and worse.
Rec 2 is decent. Not seen 3. 4 is wank.
I think "Don't watch the fucking remake" should be the tagline for the official marketing of the movie. :) Good call, Gary!
I can't stress enough how please I am with this Review, it's like talking with friends that actually CARE for the movie.
And of course it feels very warm that you liked the film the way I and so many people out there do.
Definitely returning for more Reviews, I don't know if you has it, but a Review of: Terrifier. THAT would be great!
I love REC 1&2, ....lets not talk about the others lol
I just watched 4. yeah no point talking about them
Love this film... much better than Quarantine was. I also like the 2nd Rec... the two after that... not so much lol
My unofficial Resident Evil film, with certain liberties. Instead of a mansion it's an apartment complex, the 'evil' residence is a demonic virus, rather than descending into a basement to find a laboratory responsible for the outbreak we ascend into a religioustic penthouse with it's own Lisa Trevor; the Medeiros Girl.
Shit...man, I didn't see it that way, but you're right. It's Residents Evil. RECsidents Evil (sorry, I'll stop).
[rec] is the best found footage film of them all
What about quarantine?its a great remake I only watch remakes lol
@@cosmos_crimsonstone Nowhere near as good.
That being said, I really like REC and REC 2. And I still remember one thing I loved about REC 3 was that there was SOMETHING about the way it portrayed a wedding that I felt I would never get from an American movie, and that felt very organic. Can't remember what, so many years later, but I still remember the feeling.
Quarantine, on the other hand, earned my antipathy before it even started because, for some reason, the producers decided to vehiculate the trailer for Quarantine before every screening of REC.
What's the problem, you ask? Did you watch Quarantine's trailer from the day? It, literally, shows the ending to REC. Like... a spoilerific trailer for the remake of the movie I'm about to watch right now? Just... why? Why did you have to be such a dick, Quarantine?
It's NOT a zombie film, but I really enjoyed the dark catholic conspiracy twist to it, it's weird unsusual, but given it's a spanish movie, the secret inquisitorial dark religious authority makes a lot of sense and I kind of dug it.
Do Rec 2!
How can Gary concentrate with that creepy Iain doll staring down at him?
Love this flick. Wasn't this remade as Quarantine? I love the supernatural twist and the "bad" ending. I'm not a fan of shaky cam or found footage generally and liked this. Also when can we expect Cannibal Holocaust? 😂
Yeah. I think my parents rented that one when i was a kid and hated it
I havent seen it, but i might watch a cannibal holocaust ep. Or have a whole found footage month and include the first couple v/h/s movies.
Yes, Quarantine was basically a shot for shot remake
@@Howard_the_Duck It's an interesting film, it's more than just "shock horror".
How interesting! I didn't see this as a supernatural horror myself. The priest is going to view it supernaturally, sure - but we don't have to. There is an "unstable enzyme" after all - it's a material explanation, but one the church interprets metaphysically.
It's a rip off Demons, in the apartment
I really rate this. The formula may be familiar, but boy oh boy does this hit you over the noggin.
The whip cracking pace of the dialogue also (sadly) reminds me of how much Spanish vocabulary I've forgotten.
The top - down shot showing the infected on the stair well gave me those same uncomfortable ripples that I got from the church scene in 28 Days Later.
I agree with Gary...
I really loved your review of this horror movie from my country. I hope to watch in the near future a review of "El dia de la bestia" from Alex de la Iglesia. Keep on the good work guys!
My recommendation for the best found footage for those who like the genre. Best first, more or less...
One Cut of the Dead
The best Spanish horror movie, we don't have many good movies but with this we made it jeje
I love that Terminator shirt so much 😊
Love you guys, my favorites ❤️
god this film traumatized me when I was 10
Mistress Pasta same, scared the absolute shit out of me
Me too after i watched i thoght everybody in my live was a zombie
its sad how bad the sequels were considering how terrifying this one was i saw it in the theaters the day at it release and never experienced so much fear and anxious specially at the last scene and everyone was like me my gf just stopped looking to the screen and at the end i was shaking
rec 2 was decent enough 3 and 4 are cheese fests
This movie and the sequel are so good. So glad I came across this randomly when it released(same as Troll Hunter). The concept of Zombies caused by Demons reminded me of Ken Forees Dawn of the Dead quote "When theres no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth".
I watched this movie at 1am in the dark sitting alone in my house (which is fairly remote in the middle of Scotland). As a result the final 5 mins of this are about the most scared I have ever been when watching a movie. Terrifying. Loved it ever since. And personally I think the idea that the virus is a supernatural manifestation was amazing. Took the film way beyond a mere zombie romp. The first sequel is also fantastic. The subsequent sequels are.... OK.
I don't like found footage movies, in fact, I *SORT OF* hate them lol I didn't even like The Blair Witch Project, never the less, I still have some respect for it. And the first Paranormal Activity movie too. The only found footage movie I REALLY enjoyed and loved was Chronicle! Now that movie was fucking mind blowing! But all my friends have always told me to watch [REC], and I do hear a lot of people praising it so much. And one of these days I might sit down and watch it. Especially after seeing Gary and Iain recommending it too!
Nice review lads. Saw this film years back and really enjoyed it. Had a good few shock jolts. The subtitles never bothered me as it was a pretty fast paced flick. Quarantine was ok.
I still don't understand why people keep calling this a zombie film. It's no more a zombie film than the 28 Days films. These are virally infected, rabid, mindless, LIVING people, not undead.
Aah, you guys seriously are my favourite movie reviewers on the site.
I'd really like to see you guys do an overview of the found footage genre. It's a really mixed bag, could be super interesting.
REC: Brilliant
REC2: Meh
REC3: Fucking garbage
REC4: Meh
A lot of people shit on it because it is nearly a shot for shot remake, but I thought the American remake 'Quarantine' did a good job of recreating the panic and claustrophobia of the original, and it completely removes the supernatural undertones and makes it a pure infection story. And the sequel 'Quarantine 2' is far superior to any of the REC sequels. Great review gents!!
Yep, liked the remake, not its sequel. Different folks different strokes, localization . . all the world is making the stage local flavor.
Fuck! That first jump scare made me rip off my headphones!! Haha thanks alot guys for the warning.
I thought REC was a possession film not a zombie film?
18:58 But is he wrong xD
I for one, abhor found footage films (Blair Witch and Cloverfield can suck it) but I love this movie. There is two things that I disagree with 1) Quarantine is not a bad film, just more of the same. Second, I understand character development is light but the short run time does not allow for that much development and I am ok with that. Plus, I took it as this is pretty much what actually would happen in a crisis situation. People are either trying to save each other or they get in the way. Hollywood stylization of what a hero is has hurt the movie industry so much that certain films use it as satire or as a misdirect under the guise of “subversion” which is bullshit. Honestly, it felt true to form that people show you exactly what they are about within ten minutes of a crisis and Rec does a great job of that without having to have that annoying scene of one up manship “I lost my daughter--Oh yeah well I lost my daughter and my dog” bullshit so prevalent in survival movies, especially fucking found footage films.
Love this review but your pronunciation of Tristana Medieros is so cringeworthy 🤣
*Medeiros
Wait... they didnt dub that in the english version? I thought it would be like the German version were everybody was voice acted.
Im from Spain, REC 3 was literally a spanish wedding, with [infected] in the same universe of REC. A lot of spanish famous sitcom actors and basically a collection of bad jokes one after another. It was trash in Spain too, and although some people liked it, i dont know any, it had nothing to do with the first 2 movies in terms of quality or creativity. It is the movie that killed the saga for the fans; theres another one that is not that bad but after the third not many people payed attention i think.
I skip the third everytime i watch the saga, and i never notice i did, it has no story.
what about reviewing the zombie french movie (the horde 2009) not the american one
Is the virus a supernatural if nothing actual supernatural happens
Can't believe I haven't seen this. I need to buy it and watch it with the wife asap. Cheers guys! 😁👍
[REC] is the only found footage horror I still watch
The best found footage film is Naroi - no question.
Great choice of movie this week lads
You Guys Should Watch Hell House 1
As a massive horror fan It surprises me that I have not seen this film. No worries you have not spoiled it I pretty much know the story etc. i will need to watch it soon as t does look fantastic and I speak Spanish. I don’t know if you guys mentioned 28 Days later but thats what it reminds me of, very Rage virus like. Great review as always. Have you reviewed 28 Days/Weeks later? Would be a good double feature.
I don't mind confessing that this is one that I actually haven't ever seen. However, based on your review alone, I now really want to go watch it!
Thank you, Iain & Gary, for introducing me to this film! 😃❤️
*Sending love* ❤️
This is, in my opinion, the best found footage movie ever made and one of the best horror films ever made.
Hoping you guys do Train to Busan in the future.
I knew it 😂 I love this one, watched it one night along with the signal and splinter....you should check both of those out, seriously.
Not a big fan of found footage but really enjoyed REC :)
Another great review guys.
Yes! I remember watching Rec 2 and going to actually find the original Rec.
I love Off The Shelf reviews!
Maybe the fellas might consider reviewing Being John Malkovich.
You guys are the best!
Jeff Martin I want to see them review Sleepers
Just watched the movie again so that I could listen to your review. It's still a good flick, especially the creepy ending.
Following Nicholas Roegs death RIP, any chance of you guys doing Don't Look Now.
Great review. Great film. The lead actress is also distractingly cute to top it off. Do you guys know of any German zombie flicks? Jürgen Prochnow wants to know.
does Outpost count? I did see a Geman zombie film made around the turn of the last decade, set in an apartment block in either Hamburg or Berlin, I forget exactly which - scratching my brain trying to remember the exact title.
@@MrMmnngghh ahh I forgot about outpost! Mind you, there're shit-ton of nazi zombie movies. I was thinking something more a long the lines of 28 days later, a more contemporary setting. All the same, I could watch outpost again
@@MrMmnngghh That sounds interesting - I think there's a chapter in World War Z set from the POV of a Bundeswehr officer tasked with evacuating Hamburg too. Ich muss mal nachgoogeln!
@@p0sn mein freund, If I can recall the name of the film I'm thinking of, I'll post it to you here. It's really rather good, so it's worth searching for.
@@p0sn that chapter in the World War Z book is brilliant. Brooks used it as an allegory for the Nazi retreat to Flensburg in 1945.
I seen quarantine but never rec i will give it a go tonight,seems damn good
They weren’t zombies, they were rabid. That was one thing quarantine did right, that it was an actual disease, not possessions
Human centipede trilogy please boys ... if only for the comic value 😂
Ha ha ha dude I wanna see their reaction to that!
I just now got that was the David Boreanaz Angel puppet in the background
Love this movie 🍿
You guys really lift my mood, absolutely love these reviews!
Apparently Iain thinks Gary is a demon. Who knew...there you are then.
I absolutely love this movie! Great choice for a review, let's hope the copyright zombies don't infect this review
guys..its short for record
Good review. I am a big fan of this movie as well. My thinking on the Demonic Possession angle is that it's a cultural thing. You live in a largely secular society. Spain is very Christian. That demons thing probably carries more weight for them.
I usually don't like found footage, the only ones that come to mind when I try to remember liking them are:
- "The Taking of Deborah Logan" because
a) Debora is such a sweet character that you just can't avoid sympathizing with her
b) it has the ONLY cameraman in the history of found footage to, at a certain point, just proclaim "Nope!" and leave. And not in a "tried to leave so he was killed, he turns out to be one of the survivors because he left.
-"As Above, So Bellow", mostly because I'm kinda fed up with found footage movies that end with the person being killed in another dimension or a lost cavern. I mean... for the subgenre to work this freaking movie hae to, at the very least, be FOUNDABLE - And As Above So Bellow is one of the few that explain how the heck the taps would become public.
The possession of Michael King is my favorite fff. Those you named are on my list of good fff. Check it out of you haven't seen it yet!👍
Hey guys still waiting on Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev, Solaris, and Stalker! Love to see a review of those 3 films soon please.
Good to see you back with another great review guys! I havnt see this yet I don't know why it slipped by me but thanks to you both I will watch this.
Keep watching hoping that one day you'll do a review of Stand By Me :D or 1408... just more King Adaptions :D
This movie scar me as a child, and now, even looking at it's name still get me nervous.
Honestly, I didn't mind Qurantine 2. Liked it better than Quarantine 1.
Thanks a lot for the review guys. I love this movie and when I read other comments I'm definitely not alone, so I'm glad I requested it!
Now just 3 more ;)
If you haven't yet you should watch Jaume Balagueró's other movie set in a similar environment: it's called Sleep Tight. Very good film too.
35:52 @Iain: In "Quarantine"; Yes, the camera is used to bash someone's face in :)
23:10 @Gary: Also in "Quarantine"; Yes, the ending was fixed to something somewhat more believable :)
Great fracking review, guys! :D
owned you guy's nail it everytime thankyou x
I felt Quarantine improved a bit on the original, i liked the characters more , they had more resonance especially Angela Vidal, the cameraman , and Jay Hernandez's character , he was the best thing about the remake , huge improvement over the guy in the original who i felt didn't resonate at all on an emotional level
The makeup fx and gore were better , the action scenes were staged more effectively , sound design is expert mode, and i felt it captured the sense of dread and the feeling of being trapped much better than the original
The standout sequence in both films was easily when all hell totally breaks loose and they are trying to get to the loft , it was done in expert fashion in QT, those scenes with the elevator and how Hernandez starts laying a beat down on all the infected is amazing , those last 20 minutes had my nerves jangled . It's still a great sequence in REC, but it was perfected in QT .
Great review, this movie is a bit of a classic for me , i actually feel they are both great films but i prefer QT just a bit more
REC 2 though, man , that one is the best out of the entire series ( remake and originals ) , truly awesome
Great choice guys! Some of the recent selections have made me scratch my head a little.
I remember, when the whole Blair Witch Project-thingy was going on, I was so interested in the film that I ordered DVD of it from England (being Finnish). Because it came so much earlier to there.
It was one of the most disappointing film, that I have ever seen. I don't even know, if I have the words to describe, how much I hated (and still hate) it! ;D
It's about as much disappointment to me, as was Texas Chainsaw Massacre, when I did finally see it. You see, it was banned in Finland for a very long time and at my youth it became something that every youngster talked about, though no-one had actually seen it. Then I finally had my paws to a (bad) VHS copy of it and was very disappointed. Even now, something like 30 years later, I still don't like it...
Anyway, that's just my thoughts ;)
One of the things, why I don't like "found footage"-films, is that I HATE "shaky cam"-style of filming (Bourne-movies are an exception). It's horrible, just like "Action Directors" who shoot fighting- or shooting scenes with extreme closeups and millions cuts, so that one cannot make any sense of action... Alex Cross, first Expendables and even the first of Nolan's Batman... Though Nolan probably understood this himself and the action is much better on the two sequels...
Well, rant off :D
REC seems an interesting film though, maybe I'll check it out. I knew about it before, but you know, because of the shaky cam and Found Footage, I never decided to see it ;)
The original Texas chainsaw massacre was great...it's a classic
@@Luvie1980 It is a classic and I don't deny it of the impact it has made and rightfully so.
But still it didn't make any impact to me... I find it to be boring and hate that constant screaming and even the fact that there really is no any gore. The best point of the film for me was when LF hits the guy on the head with mallet and he twitches on the floor. That's a horrible scene.
I love Halloween, first Elm Street, first Friday, Night of the living Dead and so on. But for some reason, Texas just didn't "Do it" to me... Don't know why.
But again, I'm not saying it's not a classic or that it's a bad movie. Just that I didn't (and don't) like it very much ;)
Opinions, opinions ;D
What you think of "The Girl With All the Gifts"?
I could never fully get into these kinds of movies. No matter if Blair Witch, Cloverfield or this. It just bores me and I eventually fall asleep lol
This may go again St the wisdom of Lain but I only seen the American remake n it's sequel. I know that those r lesser films but I kinda prefer their explanation for the virus.
35:55 in Quarantine, the cameraman bashes an infected with his camera
It's fascinating and unexpected that the story _seems_ like a zombie/infection crisis-- but in the end we learn it is actually a supernatural cause/monster. A contagious demonic possession? Sounds nuts, but I'm open to anything. The best thing is that the last ten minutes of this movie gave me one of the most wonderful suspense moments I had had in ages. That penthouse and all its trappings: so ominous, creepy, unsettling and troubling ... and then you bring in the hideous she-thing and the night vision, wow. I recommend the movie and while I was watching it I said to my friends, "This would make the greatest Halloween walk-through experience if you could somehow turn an apartment building into this scenario".
Brilliant movie but the demon stuff ruins it, i dunno, whenever i hear demons/supernatural as an explanation when something more mundane would fit equally good if not better just bugs me. Especially when the supernatural hasnt been established as existing in universe up until the final reveal, it feels like lazy writing.
Like with Cloverfield, went to see this movie without knowing anything about it (there wasn't anything better at the time) and was supremely surprised when it became a zombie like movie. The fireman fall is one of the best moments I have had in a cinema - the sudden, overpowering loud echoing sound was worth seeing in there. Also, it might not look it for English people, but the first 5 minutes of the movie has such an incredibly cringe-inducing bad acting from the girl, that I was already at the exit door when the incident started to unravel. So glad I stayed. Thanks for the great review. Hope you put one for Cloverfield, and Overlord soon.
I thought Quarantine was a decent enough remake, but I am rather hard for the lovely Jennifer Carpenter, so maybe I'm biased?
Ian had the dumbest theories sometimes. 🤦
Lmao you guys love to say " *Turn up* "
you guys are the bomb the best on you tube thankyou
Guys obvs you are fab 🙂 - any chance you could do Let the Right One In. ?
Been asking for years and damn it I'll ask yet again...
Jeepers Creepers review please!
The "zombies combined with demons" thing..... meh
Great movie. I like the supernatural curve ball.
Much better than the remake
Oh hi there Lol
@@spooklord987 heyyyooo
I am so happy you guys reviewed this film!
Good review....I miss the Spike puppet.