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[Rec] - Manuela Velasco, Javier Botet, Manuel Bronchud, Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza

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Movie propaganda

TV reporter Ángela (Manuela Velasco) and her crew are sent out to spend a night with firemen for the programme When you're asleep. When an emergency call arrives from a Barcelona block of flats, they accompany the fire-fighters inside. Big mistake...

Trapped in a building in quarantine the only thing that matters is hiding, surviving, overcoming the fear... And to keep on recording.

Theatrical propaganda posters

Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film horror Spain thriller TV camera reporter fire supernatural zombie

Persons of interest

Manuela Velasco .... Ángela
Javier Botet .... Niña Medeiros
Manuel Bronchud .... Abuelo
Martha Carbonell .... Señora Izquierdo
Claudia Font .... Jennifer
Vicente Gil .... Policía
Maria Lanau
Carlos Lasarte
María Teresa Ortega .... Abuela
Pablo Rosso .... Marcos
Jorge Serrano .... Sergio
Ferran Terraza .... Manu
David Vert .... Álex
Carlos Vicente .... Guillem
Jaume Balagueró .... Screenwriter
Luis Berdejo .... Screenwriter
Paco Plaza .... Screenwriter
Jaume Balagueró .... Director
Paco Plaza .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

[Rec] official movie site
[Rec] film production notes
[Rec] QuickTime movie trailers
Awards and film festivals:

Australian Spanish Film Festival 2008: Cine Fanstástico: Opening night film
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain 2008: Nominated: Best Editing (David Gallart), Best New Artist (Manuela Velasco)
Fantasporto 2008: Won: Audience Jury Award (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza), International Fantasy Film Award Best Film (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza)
Goya Awards 2008: Won: Best Editing (David Gallart), Best New Actress (Manuela Velasco); Nominated: Best Special Effects (David Ambit, Enric Masip, Álex Villagrasa)
Gérardmer Film Festival 2008: Won: Audience Award (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza), Special Jury Prize (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza), Youth Jury Grand Prize (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza)
Melbourne International Film Festival 2008: Screening
Sitges Catalonian International Film Festival 2007: Won: Audience Award (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza), Best Actress (Manuela Velasco), Best Director (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza), Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver - Special Mention (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza), José Luis Guarner Critic's Award (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza)
Spanish Actors Union 2008: Nominated: Newcomer Award Female (Manuela Velasco)

See also Quarantine
Studios and distributors:

Australian Spanish Film Festival

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Theatrical report

First words as the credits started rolling: 28 weeks later meets Cloverfield. To be honest (as I usually am but that line is great filler for reviews) I was not looking forward to seeing a Spanish horror film let alone a foreign film at all. The last one I saw was Pan's labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) and that was semi-disappointing. What I do enjoy about foreign horror films (Ring, Ring 2) is that there is always an introductory period where nothing happens. Some times in fact that period is so long (Ring) that the viewer sometimes forgets that it's a horror film that they came to see and when that "frightening" moment does happen... BAM! They're afraid & frightened! It's great, I can't say enough about what a good film this was. Plus it was also a good film to help promote the Spanish Film Festival in Sydney. I saw a glimpse during the preview section of some claymation and a comedy or two. It looks to be (for a change) a proper selection of the best Spanish films. I'm uncertain if when the reference to, "Spanish" is specific to Spain or if they expanded the selection to the "Spanish spoken here" countries. In either case, I would recommend this film to those of my friends who don't even like subtitles because the action within the film quite often did not require subtitles which is pleasing as I don't like them either.

The horror, Spain, thriller movie [Rec] is directed by Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza and stars Manuela Velasco, Javier Botet, Manuel Bronchud.