I sat in the old wingback armchair with some Breyer’s Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups ice cream and braced myself. So, I added coal to the computer, poured fresh water into the monitor’s radiator and gave the DVD hamster some more food pellets. With a few rare exceptions ( Dawn of the Dead, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Dark Knight), sequels are disappointing… even more so when the original was really great. I enjoyed so much that I was not looking forward to being let down by the sequel. I have to say, I was a bit leery going into this movie. Two bloody quarantined infected fingers WAY up! If you enjoy fast-paced heart-pounding ‘bump in the dark’ scares, so will you! The performances are wonderfully intense and realistic without going overboard into “acting.” You can almost smell the panic and fear. There’s just the script, the actors, the building and that one camera. There are virtually no extraordinary visual or special effects in. Of all the shaky handheld camera ‘found footage’ movies… this one really stands out. And the whole first-person ‘through the camera lens’ point of view thing, as used in The Blair Witch Project, The Last Exorcism and Quarantine (the 2008 American remake of ), really works well here and is even more powerful because unlike Blair Witch which has two cameras and ² (reviewed below) which utilizes multiple cameras to great effect,, like The Last Exorcism, uses only the one camera to capture everything. Think Alien and The Thing (there’s no escape) meet 28 Days Later (zombie rage virus) in a Spanish apartment building.
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It grabbed me on a gut level and never let me go. Also, because everyone is trapped in the building… it is sealed off and quarantined by the police as a kind of bio-hazard area (few things give me the sinking ‘oh crap!’ heebee-jeebies like a guy in a full hazmat suit) … the sense of claustrophobia and the inability to escape only adds to the mix. FAST! And it scares the hell out of you! The plot is brilliant, simple and classic… people in a confined space with something really bad. The movie is fairly short, clocking in at only 78 minutes. They get the call, drive to the apartment building, break into the old lady’s house, find the old lady… and then Aaaiiieeee!! Zero to sixty in 30 seconds! You know that G-Force feeling of being pushed into your seat when a car peels rubber or a jet takes off? That’s what it was like! Holy smokes! One by one, people get picked off as the danger spreads and the survivors try to figure out WTF is going on. So… We’re not even fifteen minutes into the movie and the mayhem ensues right effen immediately! We’re given about ten minutes or so of set-up, boring footage around the station where nothing much happens. They hide, they try to escape, try to survive… and the whole time, no matter what, the camera records it all, right to the very end. Trapped inside, the firemen, police, reporter and cameraman confront the unknown horror. Something horrible is slowly spreading through the building. As they move closer, the old woman attacks one of the policemen, biting him savagely in the neck. When the police and fire crew break in, there is an old woman in a slip or night-gown, covered in blood, agitated and disturbed. The station gets a call about an old woman trapped in her apartment. The aim is to show their viewers the real-life goings on of people doing their jobs through the night (hence the program title). OK, here’s the deal… A reporter and her camera man cover a local Barcelona fire station for their television show While You’re Asleep.
Sitting in my comfy old wingback armchair with some fresh Ontario peaches, I watched them back to back. The sequel ² received a fairly respectable 68% rating. The original film received an impressive 96% freshness (i.e. Not owning a Blu-ray player (or television or an ordinary DVD player, for that matter), I decided to pick up the regular DVD copies of each movie and give them a spin on my old coal-burning computer with the water-cooled monitor and hamster driven DVD. The other day, as I was making my way through The Zombie Serengeti (aka The Walmarts), I noticed the release of the Blu-ray double DVD set of the Spanish horror movies and ².
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