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Rec 2

As some of you know, i LOVE Rec. The 2007 Spanish horror film about a quarantined apartment building, the entire event is being documented by a late night

reporter and her cameraman. I documented in an earlier post about the frequency of viewings that film was watched last year. As of a couple nights ago i finally watched the much hyped Rec 2.
The film started and ends right where the original movie ends, only with a little more explanation as to what happened to the original heroin. It starts with the last 10 seconds of the original, a refresher, i guess. Then cuts to our new cast/victims, well some of the new cast. What this sequel is, in my opinion, is totally and completely cleaver, cinematically and within the horror movie genre. The first movie used the first person pov to tell the story, showing what the cameraman saw. This one introduces a swat team, with a camera there (requested by the Ministry of Health) as well as helmet cams. Now we have a cameraman like the first AND three other POV shots. They extended their range without breaking any of the first-person rules. My main beef with first-person movies is that most of the time you're expected to suspend your belief that things are actually happening this way. Found footage that happens to tell a story can sometimes feel a little cheap, ala Cloverfield. (I enjoyed Cloverfield, btw, even threw its faults)
So, SWAT plus an agent from the Ministry of Health enter the building, completely quiet and no one to be found. They enter the penthouse (where the climax of the original film left off) and find nothing, SWAT find out the agent isn't really from the Ministry of Health, he's actually PRIEST. A Fraking priest. WHAT?! They're not viral zombies at all, are they! They're possessed. Dun! dun! dun!
SWAT is freaking out by this point, and even more so when they realize they're not allowed out, not until the priest gets a blood sample from the original possessed girl (the crazy looking bitch from the end of the first movie).
Cut to a group of kids playing on the roof of a building near by, with a blow up doll and fireworks, being mischievous adolescents, ya know. They see and hear the commotion happening in the quarantined building. Curious, they go down to see what deal is. While there they see the father of the little girl from the first movie convincing a firefighter to help him get into the building. The kids follow them into the sewers and find themselves in the basement where the demons dwell. Here we get secondary POV. Lets just say the kids don't keep the camera and the camera battery actually dies out after a while, the last shot with the camera is the return of a character, emerging from the dark with the original camera in hand.
In order not to completely spoil the movie i won't go into anymore detail but the original camera is used for the last bit of the film. For some reason that made me geek the fuck out. Bringing the first elements of the movie and completely and in almost every expanding on that, technically, narratively, and thematically.
This movie is cleaver and amazing and I'm sure I'll rewatch this over and over again just like the original.
oh, and the last scene of the movie, totally gross-out moment AND REALLY COOL.