Television reporter Angela Vidal (Carpenter) and her cameraman (Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment .. Read more
| Starring | Columbus Short, Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, Johnathon Schaech |
|---|---|
| Director | John Erick Dowdle |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Horror, Thriller |
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Television reporter Angela Vidal (Carpenter) and her cameraman (Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. The situation rapidly deteriorates and they are cut off from the outside world. Remake of the Spanish film "Rec".
| Starring | Columbus Short, Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, Johnathon Schaech, Marin Hinkle, Rade Serbedzija, Denis O'Hare, Steve Harris, Greg Germann, Joey King |
|---|---|
| Director | John Erick Dowdle |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 29 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 29 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Hot Hits |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Horror, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description Blu-ray: English, English Audio Description |
| Dubbed | Turkish, Polish, Hungarian, Czech |
| Subtitles | DVD: Croatian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovene, Hebrew, Slovak, Estonian, Greek, Hindi, Czech, Serbian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, English, Arabic, Turkish, Polish |
| Released | DVD: 09 Mar 2009 Blu-ray: 09 Mar 2009 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
An American remake of the Spanish horror movie [Rec] that adopts the same basic recipe, but removes any hint of... read more on Time Out
I personally am a lover of Horror flicks. But am really disappointed by watching this one. IT has horror and only horror, without any specific story and without any specific ending as well. There is no explanation to why did the entire thing happen and how did it happen...so, please try to avoid this one, as I feel that I have completely wasted my time and money by watching this movie !!
I dont know how reviewers on here can say this isnt as good/bad as the original(REC), its identical!!!
obviously its just a hollywood remake of a spanish hit horror film(which is just a claustrophobic rip-off of 28 days later) but it is a carbon copy, character for character, scene for scene, the building where it happens is totally the same too.
If you like REC you must like this.
If youve seen one dont bother watching the other, its pointless.
It opens beautifully: a car stalled at a traffic light that’s showing green. The cars behind honking in frustration. Pedestrians glancing to gauge the severity of the problem – then taking a harder look, because this doesn’t seem to be an automotive malfunction, the driver appears to be in some distress. A passer-by goes up to him to see if he can help (he’s played the Canadian actor Don McKellar, who also adapted Nobel prizewinner Jose Saramago’s novel for the... Read more