REC 2

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Movie
German title REC 2
Original title REC 2
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2009
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jaume Balagueró
Paco Plaza
script Jaume Balagueró
Manu Díez
Paco Plaza
production Julio Fernández
camera Pablo Rosso
cut David Gallart
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
REC

Successor  →
REC 3: Genesis

REC 2 (graphic representation [● REC] ² ) is a Spanish horror film from 2009. It is the continuation of the horror film REC from 2007. The film follows on from the end of the first part and takes place at the last location, a tenement house in Barcelona .

Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza again directed . The production company is Filmax .

action

In Barcelona, ​​a four-man special police unit, the Grupo Especial de Operaciones , is sent to a tenement house where a demon-like epidemic is said to have broken out. The unit will be Dr. Owen, an envoy from the Ministry of Health, reports. The five-story house is under quarantine, and without orders from Dr. Owen is not allowed to leave the house.

The group finds a laboratory in the attic with many references to the Vatican and the Church, such as newspaper clippings. There is also a corridor without a second door in the apartment. When suddenly there are screams from below, Martos runs into an apartment on the third floor. There he is attacked and bitten by a woman. The woman behaves like a zombie and doesn't mind getting shot. By the time the rest of the unit joins, Martos has already been turned into a zombie. The others manage to lock him in a room. Dr. Owen nails a rosary on the door and says a prayer until Martos is calm.

Owen explains that he is a priest and that all residents are possessed by demons. The original host, with whom a Catholic padre experimented, is a girl named Medeiros. Owen needs a blood sample from her to make an antidote. You can find a sample of the blood that the padre kept in a shaft in the attic. Larra must flee the shaft from several teenage zombies possessed. When testing the blood, the entire sample is destroyed. Owen now wants to find Medeiros in order to take a new sample directly from her.

They are then separated by a large group of demons on the second floor. Larra is surrounded by them in a bath. When he almost ran out of ammunition, he shoots himself. The others find the girl Jennifer, who was obsessed from the first part, and try to get to Medeiros with the help of Owens, who forces her to talk through "God's help". This fails and Jennifer is killed.

Now the film emerges from the video camera of three young people who are also standing in front of the infected house. She, Jennifer's father and a firefighter enter the house through the sewer system and follow the father to his apartment, where they come across Jennifer's infected mother, Marie-Carmen. She is overwhelmed by having a firework inserted orally into her. Jennifer's father is bitten anyway, flees in panic to the upper floors and is then shot as infected by Larra and pushed over the railing (here the video camera and the camera of the special unit overlap). Looking for Jennifer, they get to the third floor where Martos is locked up. They open the door and Martos attacks the group. The girl Mire wants to shoot Martos, but hits the wrestling fireman in the head. Martos bites the boy Tito and is then shot by Mire. Owen and the two policemen lock the two youths up and confront the now possessed Tito. They learn from him that Medeiros is in the attic.

The surviving reporter Ángela from the first part, who entered the house with a fire brigade team immediately after the outbreak of the epidemic, joins the group with her camera when the battery of the video camera is empty. After questioning Tito, it turns out that she saw Medeiros through the night vision function of the camera, which is why the group decides to examine the attic again in the dark. When the group is standing there in the empty corridor of the attic apartment, another door can now be seen in the dark, which leads to another room. A basin that has been banished into darkness reveals itself, in which Medeiros lurks and pulls in a member of the special unit who has disappeared in the light. Medeiros also attacks the group and is shot by Ángela. Since the job for Owen is now over and Ángela is overworked by the experiences in the house, she suddenly knocks him down because he still does not give an evacuation order. With a voice that perfectly imitates Owens, she playfully catches up with Owen, which implies that she is also infected - but not like the zombie-like behavior patterns of the other infected people.

The film ends like in the first part. Ángela is drawn into the darkness and cannot free herself either. A parasite is transmitted to her orally through Medeiros. The special unit pushes into the attic while Ángela grabs the camera and hides.

publication

The film premiered at the 66th Venice International Film Festival . The film was released directly on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in many European countries , in Germany in August 2010.

Sequels

On March 30, 2012, the third part entitled REC 3: Genesis was released as a prequel .

The last part of the series with the title REC 4: Apocalypse appeared as a sequel in 2014 .

criticism

Stefan Rybkowski says in Das Manifest : “The police officers all wear helmet cameras, between which they cut back and forth. When they finally move through the stairwell or the narrow air shafts and shoot, it often looks like it was taken from a first-person shooter. An aspect that consistently carries on the breath of fresh air that REC brought into the genre, even if not as far and strong as the handheld camera did. Unfortunately, one has got used to this aspect since the first part (it has been imitated often enough since then), so that the whole thing is not completely exhausted, but has to be lost in some places. "

The film magazine Cinema says about the film and the DVD version: "The motif of demonic possession suggested in the finale of the predecessor gives" (• Rec) ² "a fresh note. Unfortunately, this time it is difficult to cheer, because at halftime a second narrative thread about kids secretly got on is introduced. Bonus highlight: a 53-minute feature that documents the creation of three scenes in detail. Conclusion: The shock level of the predecessor is not reached. "

The film service judges: “The staging of the original, presented as a live video, is taken over without any narrative added value; instead, it seems like a futile attempt to spice up a less than original Kistenteufel dramaturgy. Without the narrative density of the first part, the sequel gets lost in the banal story, whose characters are just cannon fodder. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cinema.de
  2. ↑ Stefan Rybkowski on dasmanifest.com
  3. ↑ Cinema.de: film review
  4. ^ Filmdienst.de: film criticism