I’ve wanted to watch this one for a long time and it did not disappoint. I’m not a huge fan of found footage because often the contrivances used to continue filming don’t make sense and take me out of the story. Also the shaky cam can get annoying quickly. This film did a great job solving both those issues. Really good pacing and the story unfolds and builds naturally, without over exposition, creating a slowly and then rapidly intensifying dread. There was one part I had to watch through my fingers. I’ll be adding this to my list of really great non-English language horror movies.

Extra note: I will also have to add this to the small selection of movies that were enhanced by cross over into the real world. For example, immediately after I finished watching my rental VHS copy of The Ring back in the early 2000s my phone rang. I refused to answer it, but as you can imagine, I was terrified for a week (iykyk). About 10 minutes after I finished watching [REC], which happened to be around midnight, we had a city-wide power outage that lasted hours. (For a portion of the movie there’s no lights except the camera light.) We had to navigate ourselves to bed by phone flashlight and a few flameless candles. Then my 15-year-old, (who had NOT watched the movie with me and in fact didn’t even know I had been watching a movie) was a little freaked out by the power outage so hung out for a while chatting, and out of the blue asked me how firefighters work. Like, do they live at the station, etc. It was just the weirdest timing!

2026 Challenges
Horrorx52: 9. Non English language horror #1 
Legacy of Horror: Week 9 – Spanish Horror 
The Podcast Macabre: 50. Original version of #24 (Remake/reboot – “Quarantine”)