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Rec 1 and 2 are two of the greatest horror films ever made.
Using found footage, they were able to add incredible immediacy, tension and rawness to a tired genre and established an identity all of their own.
The second film also managed to raise the stakes by adding a really creepy Satanic dimension to proceedings.
I was utterly gripped by the story and was looking forwards to 3 and 4 to see where the story would lead.
It went only one place...straight down the toilet. Rec 3 and 4 are almost tragically bad. Selling out everything that made the first films such bona fide classics in favour of tired cliché.
This particular film is just a poor man's Resident Evil.
I don't suppose we'll ever really know what happened and why the creative team made such poor choices, but it's a real pity. They had the formula, they'd set the story up perfectly...but then they fixed everything that wasn't broken, and completely broke it.
No series I've ever heard of has betrayed itself in this way before, and we can only hope it never happens again.
Using found footage, they were able to add incredible immediacy, tension and rawness to a tired genre and established an identity all of their own.
The second film also managed to raise the stakes by adding a really creepy Satanic dimension to proceedings.
I was utterly gripped by the story and was looking forwards to 3 and 4 to see where the story would lead.
It went only one place...straight down the toilet. Rec 3 and 4 are almost tragically bad. Selling out everything that made the first films such bona fide classics in favour of tired cliché.
This particular film is just a poor man's Resident Evil.
I don't suppose we'll ever really know what happened and why the creative team made such poor choices, but it's a real pity. They had the formula, they'd set the story up perfectly...but then they fixed everything that wasn't broken, and completely broke it.
No series I've ever heard of has betrayed itself in this way before, and we can only hope it never happens again.