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[REC]2

Unclassified 18+
Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza, 85 mins, Spain, 2008, 35mm, Spanish with English subtitles . Source: Vendetta Films. Courtesy: Vendetta Films.

[REC]2

Picking up where [REC] left off, this terrifying sequel employs the first person perspective of the home movie camera to nerve-wracking effect. This time around it's a SWAT team who are sent into a sealed-off apartment block to find out what has happened to the hapless TV crew from the first film, unaware that a demonic virus has turned everyone inside into rabid murderous zombies! (Hey, it happens).

Directors Blaguero and Plaza place the audience right in the middle of the action, cleverly using the point of view of the camera to create a claustrophobic sense of unrelenting fear.