7. REC (2007)
The disease in REC is a strange one. Unlike its American counterpart Quarantine, the disease is not a rabies-type illness. As we get to the end of REC , we discover that its origins lie with an agent of the Vatican who was responsible for investigating a virus that causes demonic possession. The effects of the disease are grizzly. It turns people into raving homicidal maniacs who attack the living, biting them and infecting them in turn. The action is set in an apartment block where a family dog contracted the disease and spreads it to its owner, a little girl called Jennifer. The disease runs rampant among the inhabitants of the block and it is hard to survive it as the infected are so extraordinarily aggressive. The whole thing is being filmed by a TV reporter and a cameraman. The building has been sealed off and as the last survivors they have nowhere to flee except for a possible route out of the roof. They end up in the penthouse where the Vatican agent carried out his research and there they find his test subject - Tristana Medeiros. He couldn't manufacture a vaccine so he left Tristana free to roam the penthouse. She kills the reporter and cameraman. I quite enjoyed REC. It is basically a zombie movie in a claustrophobic setting with a first person shaky camera point of view and a lot of screaming. However the film is entertaining in its creepiness and scare factor. What really caught my imagination was the quarantining of the whole building and the desperation of the survivors to escape. I think it would be a horrible situation where you are effectively condemned to die in a terrible fashion. I could really feel the panic and desperation of the uninfected.