8/10/2023 0 Comments Rec zombie![]() You only get to see it in bits and pieces, which has the effect of making it feel like a maze, like you’re never sure where exactly you are. I love the mix of residences and businesses. The winding staircase, the huge doors, the long, narrow halls, the tall windows. Pushing through the group of tenants that are gathered in the lobby they quickly find that the building is being sealed off by the authorities. Alex restrains the woman while everyone else hurries downstairs to try and get the cop outside to an ambulance. She sways and mutters and then, without warning, attacks one of the cops – biting him severely. Investigating the apartment, they find an older woman in nightclothes who is also covered in blood. (That they shot these opening scenes in an actual, working fire station helps as well.)Īt the apartment building the crew and the firefighters join two cops who were called to the disturbance. Even without that cultural knowledge, Velasco is very believable in her role and the ‘behind-the-scenes’ sequences – as she and her cameraman look for interesting shots and worry about which side to stand on in interviews – really give the proceedings that frisson of realism you hope for in a found footage film. Not that it has the same effect for me, but it must have added an additional layer of verisimilitude when it was released in Spain. The genius bit of casting here is that Manuela Velasco was actually a TV personality in Spain. The segment is about life at a local fire station and Angela and Pablo ride along with two firemen – Manu and Alex (Ferrán Terraza and David Vert) – to a call about a woman trapped in her apartment. It’s just two people, Angela (Manuela Velasco), the reporter, and Pablo (Pablo Rosso), her cameraman. The setup to justify the found footage aspect of is that it’s being shot by the crew of a local TV station, producing a segment for a show called While You’re Sleeping. You can also rent or purchase at most of the usual online vendors. This is well worth the pick-up if you’ve got the scratch (there’s a Region B release of just the first film from Arrow, if you’re in that region).įor streaming options, is free for subs on Fubo, DirectTV, AMC+ and PLEX as well as free with ads on Crackle. I wasn’t sure how good it would look on Blu-ray, given that the film was shot on hand-held digital cameras back in 2007, but the picture quality is a nice surprise. There’s a commentary track with directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, a documentary, interviews, deleted scenes and more. The Blu-ray includes a bunch of extras (something sorely missing from my old DVD release). Maybe April is gonna be month here at Fear Flashback! That being said, I’m actually looking forward to revisiting the whole series. Honestly, if I could buy just the first two films I probably would have done that long ago. ![]() This year I finally splurged on the Collection four-film box set from Shout Factory. NOTE: This film is in Spanish with subtitles, so if that’s not your thing you might want to check out Quarantine instead. 3: Genesis and 4: Apocalypse I’ve only seen once apiece, but I remember being let down by both (though less by 4, which at least brought back the main character from the original film.) 2’s explanations and expansion are horrifying in their own way, but I preferred the ambiguity and inferences of the original. I liked Michael Myers better when he was The Shape, not Laurie Strode’s older brother. ![]() ![]() The need to expand and explain always reduces the horror a bit, for me anyway. I’ve seen 2 a couple of times and I like it a lot – it’s one of those rare sequels that’s just as worth viewing as the original – but not as much as the first film. There are spoilers and then there are big middle fingers to the viewer and Quarantine‘s cover crosses the line for me. The Dowdle Brothers’ Quarantine is actually a pretty good film, but it has two problems that does not – first, it uses recognizable actors, which is always a bit of a kiss of death in a film that’s trading on being ‘realistic,’ and second, the poster (and cover of the DVD) is literally the last shot of the movie. (I’ve avoided Let Me In for the same reason – I loved Let the Right One In and feel like I’ll be disproportionally hard on the remake.) If you’re only going to see one of them, however, watch. Quarantine is almost a shot-for-shot remake, so watching it after is really a recipe for disappointment. I saw the US remake, Quarantine, first – and if you’re going to watch both, I think that’s the way to do it. It’s the rare horror movie that actually gets me nervous and sitting on the edge of my seat, even though I’ve seen it multiple times and know exactly what’s coming. Is the best found footage movie ever made, and one of the best horror movies of this century.
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