![[Rec]](http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/custom/32/10009132.jpg "[Rec]")
This Spanish horror thriller is based on a great idea that takes a new bite at the zombie genre, combined with a different way of telling the story," says Andrew
Comment
10/25/08
[Rec] (2007)
94 %
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work 
Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 17
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Director: Jaume Balaguero
DVD Info
Reviews for [Rec]
1 - 19 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top Critic Impressiona pelo ritmo, pelas atuações, pela intensidade e pela excepcional edição de som, revelando-se sempre tenso e, nos melhores momentos, absolutamente assustador.
11/14/08
[Rec] is one of the few genuinely creepy horror films to come along in the past few years.
10/08/08
[REC] is ridiculously good. It's a show-stopping terror trip through something that really shouldn't work all that well.
08/21/08
A demonic, barnstorming, cinema verite horror experience that pulls few punches, fears no genre taboo, and reaches for the throat with delightful intimidation.
07/31/08
einai akoma kalytero apo oso akoygetai, kai oti tha 'thelan na ginoyn otan megalosoyn oi shetikes prospatheies apo The Blair Witch Project (1999), mehri The Zombie Diaries (2006), Diary of the Dead (2007) i Cloverfield (2008)
06/29/08
At its best, "[REC]" is a stress test, with genuinely frightening and surreal use of grainy, fidgety camerawork and eerie night-vision.
04/24/08
Click to read the article
04/15/08
An unexceptional workout for the adrenaline glands nudged up several notches by a climax that will cause muchos trouser trauma to all but the recently deceased.
04/11/08
Gripping, unsettling and truly horrific, [REC] is much more than the gimmick suggested by its title. Prepare to squirm, wince and wonder at how a potential Blair Witch knock-off is quite so grimy and engrossing. And don’t eat dinner before you see it.
04/11/08
The final reel is real eyes-behind-your-fingers type stuff with the filmmakers cranking up the audience's apprehension to I-really-would-rather-be-somewhere-else levels.
04/11/08
A brilliantly staged early scare signals that the safety rails are off and, despite an unexpected, last-minute swerve into the supernatural realm, the edge-of-the-seat tension is sustained to the very last second.
04/11/08
Even thought it's the third such effort to employ handheld camera in a zombie flick, this has more than enough shocks to hold its own.
04/11/08
Top Critic ...boasts a number of brutal and unexpectedly creepy interludes that instantly set it apart from its stylistically-similar yet thoroughly inferior brethren...
04/10/08
While utterly nihilistic in its attempts to disorient the audience, the directors keep "[REC]" a consistently terrifying experience with some of the most gruesome deaths filmed...
04/10/08
A shock-a-minute mini-masterpiece of sound design, tricky jolts, and wonderfully distressing tension.
02/29/08
Lazily scripted, without even a pretense of character development or psychological depth, it offers nothing new for genre fans and no reason for mainstream auds to bite.
11/05/07
Top Critic1 - 19 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Latest News for [Rec]
November 21, 2008:
UK Critics Consensus: Does Ridley Scott’s Body Of Lies Ring True? Is Blindness Blinding Or Bland?
It's a varied pick of films in the UK cinemas this week; we have Sir Ridley Scott's latest collaboration with Russell Crowe, the CIA thriller, Body Of Lies. Julianne Moore and... More...
July 01, 2008:
Edinburgh 2008: What to Watch
We share twenty of the best films screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, currently running in the Scottish city. More...
May 16, 2008:
Cannes 2008: REC 2 Announced
It looks like [REC], the Spanish horror flick that has been terrifying audiences all over Europe this year, is about to get the sequel treatment.
More...
November 05, 2007:
click to watch the trailer for the award winning Spanish zombie flick 
More...
Related Forums for [Rec]
A Gift to my People
by: Bruce Campbell 10/11
by: Bruce Campbell 10/11
More DVDs
| Tomatometer Percentage | Movie |
|---|---|
 83% |
Tropic Thunder |
| 96% |
WALL-E |
| 89% |
Kung Fu Panda |
| 88% |
Hellboy II: The Golden… |
 53% |
Get Smart |
| Tomatometer Percentage | Movie |
|---|---|
| 73% |
Wanted |
| 66% |
Chronicles of Narnia: … |
| 54% |
Step Brothers |
| 32% |
The X-Files: I Want to Believe |
| 38% |
The Longshots |
