Excellent Zombie Horror: REC 2
Wherein I review a movie with an unexpected plot twist.
The Spanish zombie horror film REC 2 is a great way to spend an evening, especially if you watch it with a beautiful woman who likes getting scared at zombie films and jumps into your lap with every “cat-thrown-from-offscreen” moment.
2009’s REC 2 is the sequel to 2007’s REC (which was remade in the United States as Quarantine). I haven’t seen Quarentine and don’t really care to; REC was awesome enough for me.
REC 2 starts about 15 minutes before REC ends. That statement doesn’t spoil anything. However, it’s not going to be possible to talk about the movie any further without spoiling either REC or REC 2 so I’m going to have to shut up about it soon.
Just know that it does an excellent job of turning the zombie trope on its head. It does so well and it does so in an unexpected manner.
You’ll probably, uh, have to, you know. Locate a copy of this. Just FYI.
Comments on Excellent Zombie Horror: REC 2
I’ve seen them both, and they’re both simply fucking awesome. For the aforementioned reasons I’ll leave it at that.
On the subject of Quarantine, I really do recommend it… not because it’s good, but because it is one of the best bad movies I’ve seen. If you can sit through Deborah Morgan’s performance, you’ll find a movie that really, truly wants to be great… You can tell that this was *almost* a fantastic movie. The camerawork is stupid but there are a few shots that are truly amazing, albeit easy to sleep/groan thrgouh if you’re not careful. The (disappointingly seldom) zombie killings are as a general rule very well done and, include one of the few scenes in existence in which you can see a firefighter manually dispatching an undead foe in style.
I may just like it because I’m a member of Axes High, or maybe I’m a glutton for punishment… but somehow it makes it onto my “gotta see it at least once” list.