Jaime Balagueró and Paco Plaza rec (stylized as) (•REC)) There is footage that has been found shocking with bridges being burnt. For years, found footage was hampered by its technology. Early successes of choice ghostwatch, macpherson tapeAnd blair witch project Made the form solid. While the footage found is from early 1961, Shirley Clarke ContactThe first truly scary example came in 1980 with Ruggero Deodato’s brutal, merciless Cannibal Holocaust, The format continued to evolve, and 16 years ago this month, Spanish audience members were treated to rec, where it was later recognized with huge box office earnings and multiple Goya Award nominations. The footage back then wasn’t the same as it is now, and a big part of it has to do with rec,
In most found footage, the conceit is as follows: footage is recovered from the scene of some horrific and unexplained violent event, and said footage is then slowly flashed back to the audience in anticipation of what might have happened. suspension of disbelief, blair witch project Despite this, it rarely works. Often, there is a lot of traditional filmmaking progress on display with apparently recovered footage that makes it appear as if a real person recorded it. Nobody Made It Wrong Jack Penn’s 2004 feature Loch Ness incidentThe real deal, despite the best efforts of writer/producer/star Werner Herzog.
However, somewhat incredibly, found horror footage often makes great efforts to make its depiction of scary events as realistic as possible. Whereas in some cases like this Noroi: curse, this proves to be an asset, this approach often distracts more than enhances. Start asking questions and the whole enterprise falls apart. Shaking cameras, off-screen screams—audiences now know the trick (and the durability of these supposedly recovered cameras). I never got the cheap webcam I got for Christmas in 2005. with recBalagueró and Plaza leaned into the tropes, and more than a decade later, it endures as one of the scariest stories ever told within this genre.
Setup is simple. Reporter Angela Vidal (Manuela Velasco) and cameraman Pablo (Pablo Rosso) are covering the night shift of the local Barcelona fire station for a television series. when you are sleeping (I think many Barcelonans were hoping to see Sandra Bullock in the film). An old woman trapped in her house sends the pair to a local apartment building with smoldering civil servants Alex (Ferran Tereza) and Manu (David Vert). Quickly, things get out of control and Angela and company are trapped in the building along with the other residents. Some kind of infection is spreading, and in classic zombie fashion, it’s being harvested from normal-looking people.
Where? rec What differentiates it from its found footage brethren of the past – and where it left its mark on the future sub-genre – is in its commitment to high-octane thrills within the scope of its narrow point of view. The footage found at the time was of the regular slow burn variety. Let the scares kick in before the final reel of nauseating camerawork and chaos. In other words, clover field won’t come until a year later recand even though, paranormal activity The footage would be released as a mantra for years to come, re-establishing Gothic pacing.
rec Lean, mean and cruel, a cliché, sure, but an appropriate one. Once Angela reached the apartment building, rec Never slowing down to catch your breath. Within the dank and stale corridors, Balagueró and Plaza subvert both zombie and found footage expectations. Their corpses are undead – broadly speaking, they are possessed folk, a thread explored in three additional sequels (all of them, notably). rec 2, Worth seeing). The found footage is kinetic yet stylized, both akin to the found footage look and something more Hollywood, more accessible. This is close to the scale of the above clover field Will, though the fear of it is deeper, more close.
Dead bodies are thrown over the railing. The infected scurry in and out of shady corners, attacking and retreating when the audience least expects it. Central antagonist Tristana is a force to be reckoned with, a pivotal template for the genre’s ghosts and ghouls going forward., Blair Witch Tristana would be copy-pasted into the Black Hills Forest nine years later.
It’s very good recIts American remake, dull title quarantine, it is just as effective. Released a year later, the impotent scares weren’t enough to dampen the promise of the astonishing horror architecture in which Balagueró and Plaza were working. As a franchisee, rec continued to re-invent itself, eventually abandoning the found footage conceit midway through its third entry, using its unbridled ability to subvert expectations and surprise even the most discerning genre audiences. demonstrated commitment.
At the moment, it may be difficult to gauge the pulse of any genre. What exactly is the horror (trauma, presumably) of this decade? What about the last one? Especially the classics are probably opened very easily. It takes time to earn that status, and sixteen years later, it’s easy to see how rec Not only was it a contemporary success, but it also spawned an entire subgenre of horror. That’s no easy feat, so the next time you sit down to watch the latest in a long line of found footage shockers, give thanks rec, Maybe even consider letting it get to you again.
Rec is now available to rent on Prime Video. Let me know what you think on Twitter @chadiscollins,
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