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     John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
This gets released this Friday (28th May) and although I should know better I'm actually really excited about it. The same writers-directors (Jaume Balaguero and Paca Plaza), the return of Manuela Velasco as Angela Vidal, and a plot that sounds as if it expands on the original with the kind of lunatic intensity that should keep me and any other fan of fast-paced blood spattered Euro-horror happy. Lady P & I are also going to the 'Come Dressed as a Viking and Get In For Free' showing of Valhalla Rising at the Cube Arts Cinema and we also hope to fit in Christopher Smith's new 14th Century British horror picture Black Death with Sean Bean and David Warner (hooray!) but Rec 2 might come away with the honours this Bank Holiday | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Why is it that I have an in-built resistance to sequels? I fully accept that some are actually an improvement on the movies they're following, but for some reason I never get excited about sequels - and in my wall-filling horror DVD collection, there are almost none at all. Strange of me, I suppose. However, I WILL be checking out REC2, as I liked the first one so much. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.239.78 |
Tough act to follow. REC was fantastic. A jolt of the pure stuff. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Why is it that I have an in-built resistance to sequels? Well like I said, I really should know better & I'm probably heading for disappointment  . Still, no matter how it turns out members of RCMB will get what I thought of it thrust upon them in due course. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Sequel? I don't wanna be dropping in spoilers here, but sequel how? | ||
| Mark_samuels (Mark_samuels) Username: Mark_samuels Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 86.142.169.99 |
Seen it already. It takes the story much more down the possession rather than infection route. I won't say anything more for fear of spoilers. Still, this time the soldiers have helmet-cams. Which is nice. Mark S. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
I think it starts 15 mins after the end of the first film with a team being sent in to the quarantined building to recover a blood sample from the 'girl' in the top room so the Vatican can continue its research | ||
| Mark_samuels (Mark_samuels) Username: Mark_samuels Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 86.142.169.99 |
The reporter from the first film turns up during the last 15 mins, and we find out what happened to her. It's also set up for a REC 3. Nowhere near as good a proper Spanish horror film as Horror Express  Mark S. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
It takes the story much more down the possession rather than infection route. Oh, yes. The possession angle was one of the things I loved about the original. oddly for an atheist, I find the notion of demonic possession utterly fucking terrifying. I saw a clip from REC2 the other day and it looked grand. | ||
| Mark_samuels (Mark_samuels) Username: Mark_samuels Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 86.142.169.99 |
Well, I'd better shut up about it until you and JLP have seen it, because there are one or two things I'd like to discuss that would count as spoilers... Mark S. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.202.180.152 |
I loved REC, and I like sequels that carry on from where the 1st finished, rather than just a rehash. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Nowhere near as good a proper Spanish horror film as Horror Express Nothing can match that, and it's been such a pleasure over the years spotting the cast members in other films eg Sylvia Tortosa and Helga Line in Amando De Ossorio's The Lorelei's Grasp, Jorge Rigaud as Edwige Fenech's psychiatrist in All the Colors of the Dark and a completely unrecognisable Alberto de Mendoza (Pujardov the mad monk) as a police inspector in Fulci's Lizard in a Woman's Skin There's too much of this in my head isn't there? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.151 |
I actually preferred the "final explanation" in the QUARANTINE remake - the demonic possession thing didn't do it at all for me. Not in this film, at least. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
'Horror Express'... now you're talking! As perfect a horror film as could ever be imagined. Goes beyond the sublime. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
Well, there's too much of something in there, certainly… | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
We saw [Rec 2] this morning in an empty cinema and I have to say anyone who enjoyed the first film will have a blast with this. It's not quite as good as its predecessor, lacking its freshness, but it's probably the best sequel they could have done. There are plenty of moments that are edge of the seat terrifying, and some great scary ideas and images. It does fall down in a few places though. The movie grinds to a halt just over the halfway mark so we can change persepectives, and there was a 'hold a cross at the beastie and demand in the name of the Lord that it answer the questions' that sadly reeked of 1970s Italian Exorcist ripoff teriitory. But don't let that dissuade you. If you enjoyed the first this one is loads of fun, and I still have the bruises on my arm from the bits when Lady P was really scared. Lots of them  | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
Is it possible that Lady P was only holding you down so as to prevent you from — entirely by accident — embarrassingly engaging in the act of jumping, your Lordship? | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
A very, very unlikely circumstance, Sir Ian | ||
| Mark_samuels (Mark_samuels) Username: Mark_samuels Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 86.142.169.99 |
The last time I remember jumping out of my seat was during the first big scare scene in a Canadian movie called The End of the Line. Mark S. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
How shaky are the cameras? | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
As shaky as Part 1 I think. It doesn't bother me at all but there were a few bits Kate couldn't watch | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Alas! I must wait for the DVD, then. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
I saw this yesterday and while I did enjoy it, it's nowhere near as good as the first. There are several places where the cam was so shaky it was completely impossible to know what was going on - and the priest character was getting bloody irritating by the end - and finishing the film on an explanatory flashback is surely against the grain for this type of movie... Having said that, there were several very effective sequences and I probably will be buying the DVD when it comes cheap enough. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 193.89.189.24 |
Saw this yesterday and enjoyed it immensely. It has some really terrifying moments, and just as mesmerizing as the first film with the long documentary style takes and build up of dread. As Lord P says, it does have a little break in the middle of the picture, but it heightens the otherwise non-stop intensity I think. It was better shot than the first picture, and obviously we don't quite get to establish the characters as well as in the first picture. I was reminded of the Silent Hill universe yet again, or certainly more in this second part. I think they created the best sequel possible here. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 193.89.189.24 |
We must have written that almost at the same time Weber stereo |