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[Rec] (2007, Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza) is Spain’s latest entry into the by now bulging sub-genre of reality horror, which includes the antecedent grand-daddy Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980), its modern classic equivalent Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez, 1999), and its kissing cousin The Last Broadcast (Stefan Avalos, Lance Weiler, 1998), and an impressive range of a by no means exhaustive list of styles/subjects which include serial killer/stalker films (Alone With Her, Eric Nicholas, 2006, The Last Horror Movie, Julian Richards, 2003, A Film by Carroll McKane, Gary Sherman, 2006), urban myths (Blair Witch Project, The Last Broadcast, Five Across the Eyes, Greg Swinson, Ryan Thiessen, 2006, The Poughkeepsie Tapes, John Erick Dowdle, 2007), ghost tales (Paranormal Activity, Oren Peli, 2007), family horror (Home Movie, Christopher Denham, 2008), torture porn (Fred Vogel’s August Underground series), survivalist horror (Slashers, Maurice Deveraux, 2001), classic zombie mayhem (Dairy of the Dead, George Romero, 2007, The Zombie Diaries, Michael Bartlett, Kevin Gatesy, 2006) and pseudo zombie (people that are not dead but rabid) films (28 Days, Danny Boyle, 2000, 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle, 2002, Rec and its US remake Quarantine, John Erick Dowdle, 2008), mockumentary (Man Bites Dog, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, 1992, The Last Broadcast, Blair Witch Project, S&Man, J.T. Petty, 2006, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Scott Glosserman, 2006), and classic big monster movies (Cloverfield, Matt Reeves, 2008).
[Rec] is an effective reality horror entry which plays with all the usual reality horror subgenre conventions —the camera must always be on, except for odd black frames, camera-on-floor POV, night vision lighting, wildly moving hand-held shots, running point of view shots, etc.—, [1] with an added narrative twist which recal
Rec (film)
2007 film by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza
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| Cinematography | Tom Doyle |
| Edited by | David Goldman |
Production | Focus Features Croll Pictures Blumhouse Productions |
| Distributed by | Universal |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | $2 million |
| Box office | $32.5 million |
Rec (stylized as [•REC]; short for "record") is a 2007 Spanish found footagezombie film co-written and directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza. The film stars Manuela Velasco as a reporter who, with her cameraman, accompany a group of firefighters on an emergency call to an apartment building to discover an infection spreading inside, with the building being sealed up and all occupants ordered to follow a strict quarantine.
Rec was released on 23 November 2007 to critical and commercial success, and is considered one of the best films in both the found footage genres and the horror genre.Rec placed at number 60 on Time Out's list of the Top 100 Best Horror Films.
The film spawned the Rec film series, which includes three sequels: Rec 2 directed by Balagueró and Plaza in 2009, Rec 3: Genesis directed by Plaza in 2012, and Rec 4: Apocalypse directed by Balagueró in 2014 as the final installment in the franchise. An American remake, Quarantine, was released in 2008, and got its own sequel, Quarantine 2: Terminal, in 2011.
Plot
Reporter Ángela Vidal and her cameraman Pablo are covering the night s An authenticator of the story and a well-tested enhancer of immersion, the trope of the found manuscript has been a persistent presence in Gothic writing since the birth of the genre. The narrative frame offered by purported textual artifacts has always aligned well with the genre’s preoccupation with questions of literary integrity, veracity, authorial originality, ontological anxiety and agency. However, for some time now the application of the found manuscript convention to Gothic fiction has been reduced to a mere token of the genre, failing to gain impact or credibility. A revival of the convention appears to have taken place with the remediation and appropriation of the principally literary trope by the language of film, more specifically, the found footage horror subgenre. The article wishes to survey the common modes and purposes of the found manuscript device (by referring mostly to works of classical Gothic literature, such as The Castle of Otranto, Dracula and Frankenstein) to further utilize Dirk Delabastita’s theories on intersemiotic translation and investigate the gains and losses coming with transfiguring the device into the visual form. Found footage horrors have remained both exceptionally popular with audiences and successful at prolonging the convention by inventing a number of strategies related to performing authenticity. The three films considered for analysis, The Blair Witch Project (1999), Paranormal Activity (2007) and REC (2007), exhibit clear literary provenance, yet they also enhance purporting credibility respectively by rendering visual rawness, appealing to voyeuristic ta Five Isolation Themed Horror Movies to Stream This Week See full article at bloody-disgusting.com 25 Best Jump Scare Movies (& Where To Stream Them) Taking Horror as You Find It: From Found Manuscripts to Found Footage Aesthetics
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https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.10.14 Keywords:
found manuscript, found footage horror, Gothic fiction, intersemiotic translation Abstract
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