REC 3: Genesis

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Movie
German title REC 3: Genesis
Original title REC 3: Génesis
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2012
length 77 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Paco Plaza
script Paco Plaza
Luis Berdejo
production Julio Fernández
music Mikel Salas
camera Pablo Rosso
cut David Gallart
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
REC 2

Successor  →
REC 4: Apocalypse

[● REC] ³: Genesis is a Spanish horror film from 2012. It is a prequel of the horror film REC from 2007. The film tells the story parallel to the first part, when the virus breaks out at a wedding party that celebrated at the other end of the city from Barcelona. Among the guests is the veterinarian who treated the family dog ​​from the first part and thus brings the virus to the celebration.

After about 20 minutes, the film dispenses with the found footage style and thus falls out of the typical pattern of the series. This time it was directed by Paco Plaza , without collaboration with Jaume Balagueró .

action

The film begins with preparations for the wedding and finally with the ceremony being held by the bride's brother and a dedicated cameraman. The wedding ceremony for Clara and Koldo is finally held in a nearby hotel, but the two cameramen watch the bride's uncle throw up on the terrace. They also notice a special unit with radiation protection suits on the premises, as well as a police car. Panic soon breaks out in the hotel when the said uncle falls from the upper terrace of the hall and shortly afterwards attacks his wife and bites her bloodily. Panic quickly breaks out and other wedding guests are bitten and become infected with the virus. When Koldo notices that the dedicated cameraman is still filming, he tears the camera out of his hands and crushes it on the floor. From there the film jumps into an objective perspective and leaves out the found footage element.

Clara can escape to a security room with the pastor, while Koldo can hide with family members in the kitchen and later in a church room. He asks everyone to go to the bus and wants to go looking for Clara. When Koldo arrives in the surveillance room, into which Clara was able to escape, he only finds chaos, because Clara had to escape the window with the priest when the infected wanted to storm the room. In a news spot, the viewer learns that the film is playing parallel to the first two, because there is a report from an apartment block in which a virus has broken out. On a surveillance camera, Koldo can observe how most of the party guests try to save themselves on the bus, are attacked by infected people and the bus becomes a trap for them.

When Koldo and Clara finally find each other, Clara has already knocked out some infected people with a chainsaw, and the next morning they both discover that the hotel has been quarantined. Clara is finally bitten in the hand by an infected person, Koldo then chops off her forearm to prevent the infection from spreading, but hesitates too long. When Koldo carries the weakened Clara outside, the police ask him to lay her down because she is infected. While they kiss one last time, Clara bites off Koldo's tongue, whereupon the two are shot by the police. In the last shot you can see Koldo reaching for Clara's hand while the two of them take their last breaths.

Differences and parallels to predecessors

  • Clara's uncle is the vet who treated the little girl's dog and reported it to the health department.
  • The film takes itself less seriously than its predecessor, lets one of the supporting actors appear as a Spongebob- like figure, the hero as Saint George . The heroine cuts through her wedding dress with a chainsaw and similar, jumbo-like situations develop.
  • Another aspect is the blue eyes of the zombies, while in the first two parts the eyes of the zombies are red.
  • If all four parts are lined up next to each other, the attentive viewer notices that Ángela Vidal has already been rescued from the first two parts, since towards the end of the plot the protagonists Clara and Koldo leave the quarantined hotel in daylight shortly before they are killed. At the beginning of the plot of the fourth part, Ángela is saved during the night.

publication

The film opened in Spanish cinemas on March 30, 2012 and was released there on DVD and Blu-ray in August . The film premiered in Austria on April 26, 2012 as part of the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz , and a few days later it was also shown in Vienna. In Germany, the release started directly on DVD and Blu-ray on October 12, 2012.

criticism

The film service said: “In the third part of the [Rec] series, the handheld cameras of those involved record what is happening in" found footage "style (cut by magic). Signs of wear and tear in terms of content and loss of morbid charm are unmistakable, so that the most professional part of the trilogy that has been trimmed for "comedy" is also the weakest. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on the Crossing Europe homepage . Retrieved September 20, 2013
  2. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the Slash Festival ( memento of the original from August 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 20, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / slashfilmfestival.com
  3. ↑ http://www.amazon.de/dp/B008KWICUK
  4. ^ Filmdienst.de: film criticism

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