10 Horror Movies That Fill You With Dread
2. [REC]
In the late 2000s, the zombie movie was reaching epidemic proportions, with undead of all stripes filling our screens. Unsurprisingly there was a lot of chaff in this particular subgenre explosion. There was also [REC].
The Spanish found footage masterpiece can stake a claim as one of the truly great zombie features, a film that offers up every type of scare there is. The premise sees a news crew following a Barcelona fire department for a night. A call comes in from an old apartment building, where things are going more than a little wild.
They arrive to find police and military already monitoring the situation. It’s not nearly enough. An old lady bites a cop; another resident turns rabid, too. Within moments, almost everyone in the block is infected, with our core survivors trapped.
[REC] reflects better than almost any film the sheer speed with which this plague spreads. Things go very badly, very quickly, meaning the jump scares are supplemented with a constant source of escalating terror; what’s more, the news broadcast style drags the viewer in ever closer. It all winds up in the attic, and perhaps the single scariest movie monster ever captured.