Movies

There's a lot of these shaky-cam movies around at the moment, and among your "Cloverfield"s and "Diary Of The Dead"s this low budget Spanish movie may seem like the underdog, but it's punching way above its weight.Filmed by a TV crew stumbling upon something very nasty happening in an apartment block, the movie is shot and acted brilliantly, the sense of unease gradually giving way to all out terror. While it's obviously derivative of movies like "The Last Broadcast" and "The Blair Witch Project" it manages to deliver in a way that those movies couldn't thanks to some brilliant set-pieces. It's not even out in the UK yet and Hollywood have already remade it (the inevitably inferior "Quarantine") but do yourself a favor and spend an evening in the dark with the original. You'll regret it, but in the best possible way. Terrific.

Watched it at Sitges Internation Film Festival.Now.. Not being a fan of "home-made" cinema I was extremely suspecting about this film. The first 5 minutes really put you down.. I was thinking "Oh no.. Not another amateur experiment please!".. But that's exactly what they are meant for.After you relax and even prepare for occasional laughter at how bad a film it is the story slowly swirls and sinks in you with pulsating intensity and believe me: You are going to jump all over your seat for the rest of the film.Please: Do not take kids with you unless they are grown up enough to deal with horror movies or you are up to a few non-sleep nights full of tears and nightmares.If you love good horror movies you'll love this one.

If you've seen Quarantine, you've seen this film. Except it's in Spanish and a lot scarier. A TV reporter and her cameraman go out with some firefighters to an emergency call, only to find themselves trapped in a building with a strain of rabies infecting everyone.Now, I thought Quarantine was actually a pretty good movie. This one's better.There are subtle cultural differences. In the American version, the "Foreign" family was Africa, in this one they are Chinese. The motivator in the American film is terrorism, in this case it's religious fanaticism. The American version avoided a lot of exposition at the end, this one decided to try to explain everything.They really are the same movie, though, and it's interesting to compare and contrast.