Now is as good a time as any to take a poll of the Twitch readership on whether or not they've had a chance to catch Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's verité horror flick [●REC] which has been circulating festivals for many a month, but more or less buried in North America, outside the fest circuit, due to the impending release of the English language remake of the film (Quarantine). The DVD is now available with English Subs, and while we don't condone it around these parts, I think it is safe to say that one person or another may have rode the torrent of anticipation due to lack of availability. After shopping around the sequel to the original [●REC] around Cannes this year, it looks like a One Sheet has found its way online, a typical teaser style one sheet that provides a handy excuse for this impromtu little poll.
Have you seen [●REC] yet? Think the nature and story of the film even warrants a sequel?
Yeah, why not, you know? I absolutely love the first film, but it certainly isn't something I'd hold up on a pedestal and cry foul over someone tarnishing its legacy. It's a bloody, balls-to-the-wall horror flick - if they can do it again, great. If not, no real harm done in my mind.
I had greater reservations about 28 WEEKS LATER and it turned out pretty great, so who knows?
Can't see any harm in a sequel to this as long as the original braintrust are hatching it. The original knocks my proverbial socks off. I have since been sans socks. The final scenes were so well executed and mysterious that a sequel may actually be welcome to fill out the story. As long as they keep the scares coming and the intensity ratcheted up.
I'm more interested in seeing a sequel to REC than the upcoming remake.
Love that poster.
I've uh...seen it and I thought it was good. I'm not generally optimistic about sequels but I'm willing to at least entertain the notion as long as it's the original guys doing it. I think they could probably extend the story if they wanted to. Just follow a different group of people as the infection inevitably spreads into the rest of the city.
Who knows, maybe it will just be a completely unrelated movie done in the same style.
Or maybe do it like 28 weeks later, shoot it completely different but in the same universe.
I've always been a fan of "in the same universe. " approach. Sequels with new actors, characters and stories, but in this type of genre-territory, it is the universe that is the attraction most of the time (same as 28 Days series)
I enjoyed the first so this will be a must see for me.
So far i have shown this movie 3 times to 3 different sets of people and everyone has loved it, ive had beer, coffee and a fecking ashtray knocked over due to the jumps and i personally cannot wait to see a sequel to this, i dont care where it is, what its about, just as long as the same team do it cause lets face it, they hit one out of the park with this little horror gem
I saw this with a bunch of (other) stuffy reviewers at a press screening, and you could see us all change into a regular audience: nervous, giggling, jumping out of our seats even! Extraordinary...
Very, very well done. And I liked the story change at the end too, not so much a twist as a hint at something more horrible than a "mere" disease...