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Rape as Backstory: It's explained in the tie in comic (REC: Historias Ineditas) that the Medeiros girl was raped by three priests and that's how she became possessed. A good example is the introductory scene, in which Ángela and the firemen arrive outside, enter the lobby and speak with the tenants, ascend the stairs and talk with the policemen, break the door down and enter the apartment, and meet and get assaulted by the zombified woman. The Oner: A few, seeing how this is done in the style of a pseudo-documentary. Not Using the "Z" Word: The Zombies are never acknowledged as such, even though it's acknowledged that it's a virus. At least, until all hell well and truly breaks loose. Nothing Is Scarier: The films run on this quite a bit, especially the first film. Noodle People: The Medeiros girl's extensive emaciation and unsettlingly huge jaw invoke this trope in a way that would give The Enigma of Amigara Fault a run for its money. Now instead of a demon taking over one person, the demon can take over everybody who is infected. They were able to find the enzyme which caused demonic possession. 
The Church was searching for a medical cure for demonic possession. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A rare pre-story case.Lost in Translation: No dubs, subs, or remakes do justice to the abundant, often colorful Spanish swearing.It also helps that their possessed nature can help them to mimick the voices of non-infected people to lure their prey. It Can Think: This is what makes the infected so dangerous, as they are capable of forming plans and use their numbers to overwhelm the people they're trying to infect.Also, most of 4 is shot traditionally, except for security camera footage. Found Footage Films: Except for the last hour of 3, which is shot traditionally.The fourth, however, has more of a Bittersweet Ending. Downer Ending: The first three movies end this way.Demonic Possession: The true nature of the Virus.Death of a Child: Not only are several infected young boys lurking in the penthouse attic (with one of them getting his head blown apart in the second film), Jennifer also gets infected and is (presumably) killed off-camera in the second film.Creepy Child: The infected Jennifer and the boy(s) in the attic from the first and second film.Closed Circle: The first and second movies take place in a quarantined apartment building.Pablo Rosso, the film's cinematographer, "plays" the cameraman in the first two movies.Americans, picture Maria Menounos starring in a film like this.
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Manuela Velasco (Ángela) was best known in her native Spain as " that silly Canal+ TV host" before this movie. Body Horror: The Medeiros girl is a shining example. #Rec 1 2 series#
Artifact Title: The latter two films in the series ditch the found footage, "recorded" style of filming present in the first two.Arc Words: "(You/We need to) film everything.".
Everyone repeatedly says to keep the film running so there will be a log of what happened.
Apocalyptic Log: All the camera footage. The fourth film in the series, 4: Apocalipsis (2014), concludes the saga with the infection spreading to unknown proportions. A third film, called 3: Génesis (2011), takes place at roughly the same time as the events of the first two films, but follows a different cast in another location. In 2008, the first was remade in America as Quarantine (2008). Soon, they are forced to fight for their lives as The Virus slowly takes over the tenants and responders. As they tag along with the rescue effort, Ángela and Pablo find themselves chronicling the discovery and progression of an apparent zombie outbreak in the building, which is sealed off by the authorities, trapping everyone inside. However, the two intrepid reporters get much more than they bargained for when the firehouse receives a call from a residential building about an old woman being unwell and trapped in her own apartment. Is a 2007 Spanish horror film following a news reporter, Ángela Vidal, and her cameraman, Pablo, as they cover the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the fictional documentary series While You Sleep.
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