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Cinematography | Tom Doyle |
Edited by | David Goldman |
Production company | Focus Features
Croll Pictures Filmax |
Distributed by | Filmax International |
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Running time | 78 minutes[1] |
Country | Spain |
Language | Spanish |
Budget | $2 million[2] |
Box office | $32.5 million[3] |
Rec (stylized as [•REC]; short for "record") is a 2007 Spanish found footage zombie 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.[4][5][6][7][8] Rec placed at number 60 on Time Out's list of the Top 100 Best Horror Films.[9]
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.[10] An American remake, Quarantine, was released in 2008, and got its own sequel, Quarantine 2: Terminal, in 2011.