[Rec]

[DraconianOne]

[Rec] is by far the best mockumentary horror film I've seen.  I've said this before: I'm not a big fan of mockumentary horror films. Blair Witch Project was a fucking piece of overrated unwatchable shit that should never have been unleashed on the public. Cloverfield was much better, well made, had the money and worked but still relied on a leap of faith regarding why the fuck the person with the camera would keep on recording everything.  [Rec] just works perfectly. It's already been remade in the US as a film called Quarantine but by all accounts, the original is far superior (there's a surprise). It can also be compared to George Romero's Diary of the Dead which will give you a damn good idea of the subject matter. I haven't seen Diary so can't say how it actually compares.

Teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeaUokzE9fI

EDIT: Trailer (in Spanish): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib5ZSj6ST0U

[schild]

Quarantine was what Blair Witch should've been. I did not know Quarantine was a remake. I didn't actually read anything about it, I just found it one day.

[Johny Cee]

Quarantine was what Blair Witch should've been. I did not know Quarantine was a remake. I didn't actually read anything about it, I just found it one day.

Quarantine.....  could have been a pretty good horror flick.  Good setup, good ideas, good attention to back story and plot.  I think it was really weighed down by a complete lack of actors with charisma,  or characters that you can identify with.  It just felt "off" a bit.

[Lucas]

Behold my necromantic abilities!!  
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Anyways, REC 4: Apocalyse, probably the last movie of this series, will come out at the end of October. We'll get back to the main storyline and protagonist (with original director Jaume Balaguerò at the helm), after the horrible interlude that was "Rec 3:Genesis".

I think the first was a masterpiece (second one not bad at all either): awesome tension, but also I really dug the "quiet", 15 minutes long intro with Angela and the crew just messing around. And how "real" everything looked.

Official site:
http://movies.filmax.com/rec4/

Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdjrvwYO9nc
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P.S. One piece of advice: do yourselves a favour and watch the first two chapters in spanish. The "real tv" feeling will be greatly enhanced without dubbers, given the nature of this movie.

[Teleku]

I actually liked Quarantine better (though I did see it first), but they were both good.  I felt that the plot of Quarantine flowed better and made a little more sense.  Maybe also cultural since it was Americanized.

It's kind of scary that they made (making) 4 of these however.  Paranormal Activity managed to be good for the first 2, but has been awful since.  And this seems even less adaptable to sequals...

[TheWalrus]

I didn't enjoy any of the paranormal activity series. Granted, I only saw the first two, but I thought they were terrible. And I really like almost all kinds of horror flicks. But that goes to show...something.

[Lucas]

I enjoyed the first Paranormal Activity, but I also tried to create the "right" atmosphere for it: watched it around 1.30am, headphones, with lights off, bedroom door open 
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I tried watching the beginning of "Quarantine" a few years ago, but couldn't get past the beginning and the "americanization", which was not needed at all for REC in the first place, anyway.

[schild]

It's really hard to search, but revisiting this thread.

I REALLY enjoyed V/H/S. Haven't watched the second one yet, but I expect it to be as good as the first.

[Teleku]

Was it really gory/disturbing?  Or mainly scary like PA and [Rec]?  Trailer made it look like the former.

[Ruvaldt]

V/H/S is awesome.  To Teleku, if one has to draw a comparison it's more like [Rec], and not extremely gory, but it's much faster paced since it is made up of five found footage films that have nothing to do with one another.  All of which are good.

V/H/S 2 is much gorier and some of the vignettes are really gonzo.  The Indonesian cult portion (Safe Haven) is absolutely insane and they take a very fun turn at a zombie movie as well.  I liked V/H/S 2 more because so much of it was bizarre and unexpected, but they're both excellent.

[Ironwood]

I thought VHS 2 was utter pish.

[murdoc]

VHS 2 repeatedly made me laugh out loud with how bad it was. The Safe Haven vignette was pretty crazy though.

[Ironwood]

Cyclist Zombie Head Cam was just mentalcakes.

[apocrypha]

I liked [Rec] a lot. I'm going to have to watch V/H/S now. Unfortunately my wife can't handle scary films so I need to wait for her to go out one evening. Pointless watching scary films in the day time.

[schild]

Whenever the wife goes away for work, I spend at least one day with nonstop horror movies on one of my monitors.