10 Essential Found Footage Horrors To Watch Before Blair Witch

If Rec’s massive international success played a part in getting the likes of Apollo 18 and The Devil Inside green-lit, then it has a lot to answer for. By way of apology, here’s Rec 3: Genesis, which ditches the po-faced seriousness of the previous instalments and instead opts for the playful, cartoonish tone of Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror.

Which is great fun if you thought Rec 2 fumbled the ball, but watch out if you wanted more of the same. Relocating the narrative to a wedding where zombies are unleashed on the guests, director Paco Plaza sticks with narrative convention for a while, then he plays the ultimate prank and has a character question why someone always to videotape the slaughter. Ditching the found footage gimmick, Plaza resorts to conventional cinematography for the rest of the movie.

Fans of “serious” horror will not be enamoured of scenes where zombies are killed with egg whisks, nor of a character who calls himself Sponge John because Sponge Bob taken. Whatever you feelings, one thing’s certain: Rec 3 will never be mistaken for its predecessors. Can’t say that about Paranormal Activity 3, can you?