REC 4: Apocalypse

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Movie
German title REC 4: Apocalypse
Original title REC 4: Apocalipsis
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2014
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jaume Balagueró
script Jaume Balagueró
Manu Díez
production Julio Fernández
music Arnau Bataller
camera Pablo Rosso
cut David Gallart
occupation
chronology

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REC 3: Genesis

REC 4: Apocalypse (graphic representation [● REC] ⁴ ) is a Spanish horror film from 2014. It is a further sequel to the horror film REC from 2007 and follows on from the plot of [● REC] ² .

Jaume Balagueró again directed . The production company is Filmax .

action

At the beginning of the film, a unit of the Spanish Army Special Forces is sent to the apartment building from the first two films to save Ángela and destroy the house. After an attack by attacked firefighters and residents, the unit's survivors, Lucas and Guzmán, successfully complete the job.

In the next scene, Ángela wakes up on a ship without remembering anything and is chained to a bed while Dr. Ginard's blood is drawn for testing purposes. Guzmán and Lucas are also on the ship, which acts as a quarantine ship that is supposed to prevent the further spread of the epidemic by isolating potentially infected people. After Ángela's attempt to escape has failed, the doctors around chief physician Dr. Ricarte informed that she was not infected. Meanwhile, Guzmán gets to know the captain of the ship Ortega and the technician Nick. The latter reconstructs the events in the apartment building with the help of Ángela's recovered camera. After he has succeeded in doing this, he sends the film to the doctors in their laboratory, where they conduct experiments with the pathogen.

Meanwhile, the doctors discover that their test subject, an infected monkey, was freed during a power failure the previous night. The same monkey infects the ship's cook, which also contaminates the food. Most of the crew and guards are infected by ingestion . After an unsuccessful attempt by the doctors to cure the cook with the help of a developed "antivirus", Ángela, Guzmán, Lucas and an old woman, who appears to be the only survivor from the third part of the film series, try to find their way onto the bridge. On the way, the group is separated from the old woman and Lucas stays behind to save the old woman.

Ricarte recognizes, however, that the attempt to find an antidote has failed because an unmutated strain of the pathogen, i.e. blood of the Portuguese girl Tristana Madeiros from the first part, is required as an index patient . Shortly before he can initiate the self-destruction process, his assistant informs him about the film that Nick has reconstructed. This shows how Tristana infects Ángela orally with a worm-like parasite. Doctors believe this parasite is the origin of the disease. So they invade the bridge and try to surgically remove it from Ángela. However, Ángela succeeds after an attack by the infected first officer, the Dr. Ginard bites, the escape. Ricarte goes on a search for Ángela, but she can surprise him. Claiming not to be infected, she bites Ricarte and tells him to check himself for infection. The test is negative, which rules out Ángela's infection. However, Ricarte still believes that Ángela is tricking him. It turns out that during Ángela's rescue, the parasite passed on to Guzmán, who he thought was a stronger host. Guzmán, who has meanwhile joined them, attacks Ángela and locks them in the ship's belly. Ricarte starts the countdown to self-destruction.

At the same time, Lucas and Nick, the only two other survivors, try to start the ship's auxiliary engine, but they fail. Lucas dies in another attack. Nick meets Ricarte, who wants to escape with a rubber dinghy. Nick knocks him down and takes the boat from him. He meets Ángela, who is on the run from infected monkeys. Together they manage to kill the monkeys with an outboard motor . Guzmán then attacks, who tries to transmit the parasite back to Ángela. Shortly before he succeeds, Nick and Ángela are able to kill Guzmán with a harpoon . Thereupon, pursued by infected people, they flee on deck to escape with the rubber dinghy. They succeed in doing this shortly before the ship explodes. However, you can see how the parasite survived and attacked a fish underwater.

In the last scene, Nick and Ángela can be seen driving home safely in a taxi.

publication

In 2010 it was announced that there would be not just one, but two more sequels of REC , including a fourth part. After initial delays in the start of shooting, the shooting finally started in July 2013. The film was shot on Gran Canaria and on a ship belonging to the Russian merchant navy. The film had its first premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2014. It premiered in cinemas on January 2, 2015, and the DVD was released on May 11, 2015.

criticism

The film was largely received positively. Mainly the return of Manuela Velasco and the dark atmosphere like the first two parts were praised. Spanish website ALT104 gave the film a mixed review, describing the film as a fair sequel to the franchise but a poor ending for the series. The film service wrote: "Fourth part of the [Rec] series, which for the first time dispenses with the" found footage "aspect, but otherwise relies on the well-known zombie horror and suffers from considerable signs of fatigue."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 'Rec' Directors Return for Not One, But TWO Sequels !!! , dated May 2, 2010, accessed March 30, 2017.
  2. ↑ [REC 4 Apocalypse Started Filming Today !!] July 13, 2013, accessed March 30, 2017.
  3. ↑ Behind The Scenes Of '[REC 4: Apocalypse' With Manuela Velasco !!], August 7, 2013, accessed on March 30, 2017.
  4. ↑ REC 4: Aporcalypse on rottentomatoes.com, accessed March 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ Film Review: '[REC 4: Apocalypse'], accessed March 30, 2017.
  6. ↑ [TIFF '14 Review Dull and Pointless '[REC] 4' Is a HUGE Letdown], accessed March 30, 2017.
  7. ↑ [• REC 4: Apocalipsis], accessed March 30, 2017.
  8. ^ Filmdienst.de: film criticism