31 Horror Films To Watch This October

If Rec’s massive international success played a part in getting the likes of Apollo 18 and The Devil Inside greenlit, then it has a lot to answer for. By way of apology, here’s Rec 3: Genesis, which jettisons the found footage angle and makes fun of the whole subgenre.

Relocating the narrative to a wedding where zombies are unleashed on the guests, director Paco Plaza ditches the po-faced seriousness of the previous instalments and instead opts for the playful, cartoonish tone of Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror (note leading lady Leticia Dolera’s passing resemblance to that film’s Marley Shelton). Which is great fun if you thought Rec 2 fumbled the ball, but watch out if you wanted more of the same.

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 any other film in the franchise. And that's more than you can say about most sequels.