So a found footage horror movie this has never been planned before. This is a 2008 film attempting to make the genre scarier than it was before. This was an American movie which reported cost $12m to make and grossed $41m at the box office. It was produced by Sergio Aguero, Doug Davison and Roy Lee. Directed by John Dowdle and starred Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Greg Germann and Steve Harris. All of which I’ve never heard of, but still it got to 56% on Rotten Tomatoes and 5.9/10 from IMDb. I gave it a rather generous 72% for one reason only.. but that’s for later.
The plot if the name does give it away is about a TV film crew (don’t forget the found footage angle) that is filming a fly on the wall documentary following a team of fireman. They are called to emergency in a house. They arrive and find the police and Ambulance already there. They enter and find that there are some proper nutters in there with them. They are attacking each other and them as well. They try to help bring calm whilst a police officer falls from the floors above and is also attacked. Each person that was attacked and bitten turns and attacks the next and in the meantime the authorities have quarantined the entire building no one gets out and no one gets in. The surviving non-nutters decide to barricade themselves into on apartment whilst the rest of the building turns to shit. How will they get out and what will become of those that do.
Ok that’s about three quarters of the movie up there. As I mentioned it made a profit but was not that well perceived but those that saw it. We move onto the question that’s appearing in more and more of these reviews and that is why the hell do I like it then. And I said I would get here around the first sentence and the reason is it scared the shit out of me for about 1 minute but it did none the less. Is it a good movie nah not really. Does it warrant spending lots of money to own it nah probably not but this was the third movie in the movie triple mentioned elsewhere so cost next to nothing. There is literally one part that had me properly spooked and that’s enough to add 15/20% to the score. If you want to watch a good movie go watch the original Spanish version called REC which also has a better sequel and is a better movie if you can live with the subtitles.
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