October 23rd: [Rec]2 (2009, rented from library)

So, earlier I reviewed Quarantine, which was the American remake of the original [Rec], this film can still act as a direct sequel if you can buy the characters suddenly switching to Spanish and the left over zombies being different than you remember.

This movie is told from the footage of three different groups/cameras.  A group of teenagers who break into the building with a handicam, a squad of police officers who have helmet cams and body cam and the original woman from the end of the first movie.

This movie goes into the explanation of what the virus actually is pretty deeply and does a great job with it.  The narrative is told via the film itself, rather than lengthy exposition and dialogue and it never slows down.

Four police officers escort a priest into the building to attempt to find a cure for the virus.  This is a far cry from Quarantine 2: The Terminal, which simply makes a fun little zombie movie in an airport.  The police officers quickly find out the demonic meaning behind the zombies that they find and that they are trapped in the building by the priest until he tells the government to let them out.

A group of three teens then decided they want to try to get camera footage that can make them rich and break into the building and attract the attention of a firefighter and a man looking for his daughter and become a second group that entered the building from the first time.

Eventually the two groups come together and start falling one by one.  But, it's when Angelica from the first film shows up that things get REALLY good.  They go from good to AMAZING!

The story telling in this film is fantastic, the atmosphere is great, the expendability of characters is amazing, the only thing I didn't like was the stretch towards to end, but I don't mind a little bit of magical realism, especially in Spanish works.