Movie Review: [REC]

It made a lot of money back in 1998, but it seems to have taken an entire decade for The Blair Witch Project to have a proper influence on genre cinema. In the past couple of months we’ve had Cloverfield and George Romero’s Diary Of The Dead shaking their handheld cameras in our faces, and now Spanish shocker [Rec] joins the club. One night a fire crew is called to an apartment building where an old lady is apparently trapped in her apartment. Unfortunately the poor dear has turned into a demented contagion-ridden zombie, and when the authorities seal off the entire building our survivors must find another way out.