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[REC] is a 2007 Spanish horror film following a news reporter, �ngela 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.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. As they tag along with the rescue effort, �ngela 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. Soon, they are forced to fight for their lives as The Virus slowly takes over the tenants and responders.In 2008, the first [REC] was remade in America as Quarantine (2008). In 2009, a sequel, [REC] 2, was released. A third film, called [REC] 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. The fourth film in the series, [REC] 4: Apocalipsis (2014), concludes the saga with the infection spreading to unknown proportions.
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Tito and Mire are two brothers that spend most of their screening time arguing with each other. However, they are very protective of each other, with Tito often grabbing Mire by the hand while running away from the infected and Mire tries to protect Tito when he gets infected.
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 [REC] / int_115d318
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And Then John Was a Zombie
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And Then John Was a Zombie: �ngela has become the new host of the demon that possessed Medeiros, making her the lead carrier for the demonic plague. And she's now free to infect the entire world.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: The younger officer has a brief one after he is forced to gun down Mrs. Izquierdo.
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Your Mom
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Your Mom: The demon, when asked where it [that is, the Medeiros girl] is hiding, retorts, "Your mother's cunt!"
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Full-Frontal Assault
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Full-Frontal Assault: The Medeiros girl. Well, she is wearing underpants, but nothing else.
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Say My Name
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Say My Name: "PABLO!" "JENNIFER!!"
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 [REC] / int_1c7555f1
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The Virus
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The Virus: While the doctor character compares the outbreak to rabies and the tape to influenza, the climax suggests the contagion has a supernatural origin. [[spoiler:The second film confirms it: the virus is actually the vehicle of a worm-like demonic entity which uses it to control the infected and jump its mind from one to another.
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A House Divided
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A House Divided: Well, an apartment complex. The inhabitants never fully reach this level seeing as how the infection happens so fast people rarely get the chance to argue with one another.
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 [REC] / int_222969af
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All There in the Script
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All There in the Script: Names of some wedding guests (Wendy, Leire, Cuca and Germán) are listed in the end credits, but their names were not mentioned in the film. Clara's unnamed mother is listed as "Menchu", and the elderly woman at the chapel is credited as "Amelia".
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 [REC] / int_22cf536c
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The PA system. Clara uses it early on to confirm with anyone listening that she's alive. The priest uses it later on to read the book of Genesis, paralyzing all of the infected. The grandfather's hearing aid, although this is a more negative example as it leads to the film's sudden Downer Ending. The multi-tool Atún accidentally drops down the sewer at the start of the outbreak, when Clara and Koldo finally reunite but are kept apart by a grate. She picks it up and it finally leads to the newly wed couple being together again.
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 [REC] / int_241ca0d8
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Back for the Dead
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Back for the Dead: The sole survivor of [REC] 3 returns only to become infected partway though.note  she is not actually anywhere in the prior film.
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Death of a Child
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Death of a Child: At first it seems like the children at the wedding are gonna get away in a bus parked outside the reception. Unfortunately, the infected get inside the bus...
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Funny Background Event
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Funny Background Event: Many examples of this: A firefighter walks in naked while Pablo and �ngela are recording The old lady appears sweeping the ground during almost all interviews. You can see (and hear) César hitting on Pablo during the scene where Jennifer plays with the camera.
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Nobody survives the virus.
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Non-Indicative Name
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Non-Indicative Name: While the subtitle Genesis makes you think it's an Origin Story for the series (as films with those titles regularly do), in this case it is that the passage of The Bible that the priest reads over the PA system to keep the zombies at bay is the Book of Genesis.
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Artifact Title
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Artifact Title: The latter two films in the series ditch the found footage, "recorded" style of filming present in the first two.
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Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress
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Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress
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Lethal Chef
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Lethal Chef: Downplayed. After Edwin fights off and kills an infected monkey by cooking it on a pan, it ends up being unintentionally served to the crew when Goro tastes whats left of the infected monkey and lets the others taste it.
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 [REC] / int_35e2fb78
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The Mirror Shows Your True Self
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The Mirror Shows Your True Self: Mirrors frequently show the infected to be the Infanta.
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Found Footage Films
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Found Footage Films: Averted completely for the first time in the series, along with Apocalyptic Log. The entire film is traditionally shot (albeit with Shaky Cam), interspersed with footage from the ship's security feed.
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 [REC] / int_3efb1d35
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Social Media Before Reason
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Social Media Before Reason: "Keep recording, for your fucking mother!" Throughout two-and-one-act-of-the-third films, people are given to record the whole situation because they either believe they should (or are ordered to) keep a record of all the craziness that is going on. Obviously, many characters are not happy about it.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: The only movie in the franchise to not end on a complete downer - �ngela and Nic both survive, escaping the ship and making it back to dry land. On the other hand, the demon is still alive, and is last seen using a fish as its next host, before presumably going off to start the whole nightmare once again, potentially on a far vaster scale now that it's gotten into the planet's food chain.
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 [REC] / int_4180cb75
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Alternate Identity Amnesia
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Alternate Identity Amnesia: �ngela forgets she was ever possessed by the demon once it leaves her body. It takes finding and recovering the footage for anyone to realize she was once the carrier.
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Ankle Drag
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Ankle Drag: The movie ends with the heroine being dragged away into the dark.
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Actionized Sequel
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Actionized Sequel: Averted. Although the protagonists of the second movie are special forces operatives instead of defenceless civilians, they don't fare much better than the latter. The fact that the infected cannot really be killed by bullets (just temporarily stunned) certainly doesn't help.
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 [REC] / int_4603ea49
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Mystical Plague
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Mystical Plague: While The Virus certainly has a biological aspect, the climax of the first movie suggests that Demonic Possession also has a part in it. The second film confirms it: the virus is actually the vehicle of a worm-like demonic entity that seemingly lives in the digestive system and can be passed from person to person.
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Sealed Evil in a Can
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Sealed Evil in a Can: The Medeiros girl. She can only affect you if you're in total darkness.
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Gory Discretion Shot
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Gory Discretion Shot: Mencu/Royalties terminating one of the infected women with a tire iron.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Atún says he works for Filmax films, the production and distribution company for the REC movies.
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Improvised Weapon
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Improvised Weapon: As Lucas and Guzman look through the ship's fishing supplies for more weapons, they manage to find a couple of spear guns and also a outboard motor. Just like the chainsaw from [REC] 3, it is used by Lucas, Nic and even Angela, the latter two even use it to fight against the infected monkeys. Some of the posters for the film even had Angela posing with it.
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 [REC] / int_4e3d253b
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: Everybody at the wedding reception dies, except for the priest. Clara gets bitten, and when she becomes one of the infected, Koldo decides to let her bite him so they can die together and then they both get shot by a platoon of soldiers.
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 [REC] / int_504a1991
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: The Medeiros girl is a shining example.
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Dual Wielding
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Dual Wielding: After escaping the clutches of Dr. Ricarte and the remaining doctors when they try to do a vivisection, she breaks out a fire axe and carries it alongside a scalpel she stole.
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 [REC] / int_50ed1af4
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Our Demons Are Different
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Our Demons Are Different: Possession spreads through biting people via a virus, the original is a long worm-like creature that seemingly lives in the digestive system and can be passed from person to person, and those possessed can accurately mimic voices.Also they fear religious symbols (crosses) and don´t enter in holy places (churches), and recitations of Bible verses stuns them
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Rape as Backstory
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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.
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Not Using the "Z" Word
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Not Using the "Z" Word: The Zombies are never acknowledged as such, even though it's acknowledged that it's a virus.
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Seeking Sanctuary
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Seeking Sanctuary: The church on the hotel grounds acts as a Place of Protection.
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Police Are Useless
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Police Are Useless: Played with. The two police officers are unsurprisingly no match for a zombie outbreak in an apartment block, although they clearly are trying their best in a horrendous situation (and the junior officer is abruptly promoted when his senior partner dies). However, even once they have realised what the virus is and how it is spread, the younger cop continues to make a series of blunders with catastrophic results. The health inspector's blunders are arguably worse, given that he already knows what the virus is and how it is spread, yet continues to do stupid things.
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The Un-Reveal
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The Unreveal: The origin of the virus is explained, but the fate of �ngela is still up in the air. Until [REC]2. Pablo's face is never shown. Until [REC]2's promotional material.
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Jitter Cam
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Jitter Cam: Another handheld for the main shots, but the soldiers also have helmet-mounted cams with somewhat less jitter.
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Chainsaw Good
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Chainsaw Good: Not wanting to leave her husband behind when they get to the exit of the tunnels. Clara arms herself with a conveniently close by chainsaw stuck to a log and even uses it to rip up the lower part of her dress!
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Zombie Apocalypse
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Zombie Apocalypse: A non-undead variety. Implied at the end of the second movie, and with the title of the next sequel.
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Sacrificial Lamb
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Sacrificial Lamb: Martos is the only member of the team to get taken out early on, getting infected barely fifteen minutes in.
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 [REC] / int_6293c185
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Sequel Hook
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Sequel Hook: The demon worm parasite survives the destruction of the boat and gets "eaten" by a fish. Since it can infect animals, it's likely only a matter of time before it returns to land and the cycle of infection starts again.
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Heroic Sacrifice
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Heroic Sacrifice: Many see Manu doing this when he chooses to guard the apartment's door alone in the darkness, while Pablo and �ngela are looking for the building keys inside.
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Facial Horror
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Facial Horror: The first cop has extremely nasty and gruesome bite wounds on his face after encountering Mrs. Izquierdo. Alex also sustains some nasty facial damage after plummeting several floors and apparently also taking a bite to the face. Downplayed when Jennifer bites her mother in the face. The damage is bloody, but not nearly as gruesome-looking as the above examples.
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Formula-Breaking Episode
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Formula-Breaking Episode: This movie differed significantly from the formula associated with the saga so far. At first it seems like it's gonna be a found-footage film like the other movies, but at the end of the first act the camera gets smashed and then it jumps to a traditional style of filming. Besides, no main characters from the first two movies appear on the third. Lastly, it has more parodic elements; it is more of a dark comedy than a horror film at times.
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Noodle People
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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.
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 [REC] / int_680f950
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Gilligan Cut
 [REC] / int_680f950
comment
Gilligan Cut: When the three teens are about to enter the building through the sewers, Mire nearly leaves and takes her camera with her. She says "I've had it with your stupidities," and when Tito and Ori try coaxing her back, "I said no!" Guess where they are the next time the camera cuts back on.
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 [REC] / int_6941e30b
type
Room Full of Crazy
 [REC] / int_6941e30b
comment
Room Full of Crazy: The closest anyone gets to an explanation in the first film is a Room Full Of Crazy covered in newspaper clips about a "Medeiros girl" who seems to have been infected or possessed, a recorder that plays back some ramblings about a virus, an infected hyper-aggressive little boy and, finally, the girl herself that kills the last two survivors.
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[REC] / int_6941e30b
 [REC] / int_6b2b3b59
type
The Reveal
 [REC] / int_6b2b3b59
comment
The Reveal: After Ricarte finds out that �ngela can't spread the virus via saliva, it's revealed that Guzman is now the demon's host, having exited �ngela's body and started possessing him since the apartment complex.
 [REC] / int_6b2b3b59
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[REC] / int_6b2b3b59
 [REC] / int_6c07693b
type
Carry a Big Stick
 [REC] / int_6c07693b
comment
Carry a Big Stick: Manu uses a sledgehammer or mallet, as a weapon against the infected and to break down a door.. Medeiros uses a claw hammer as a weapon during the finale and the second film.
 [REC] / int_6c07693b
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[REC] / int_6c07693b
 [REC] / int_6cbd71d7
type
Dangerous Key Fumble
 [REC] / int_6cbd71d7
comment
Dangerous Key Fumble: A Stairwell Chase towards the end is heightened by �Angela not finding the right key for the door to the attic.
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[REC] / int_6cbd71d7
 [REC] / int_6ec4232f
type
Casting Gag
 [REC] / int_6ec4232f
comment
Manuela Velasco (�ngela) was best known in her native Spain as "that silly Canal+ TV host" before this movie. Americans, picture Maria Menounos starring in a film like this.
 [REC] / int_6ec4232f
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[REC] / int_6ec4232f
 [REC] / int_7104ae6a
type
Wrench Whack
 [REC] / int_7104ae6a
comment
Wrench Whack: The ship's engineer Jesu saves himself from one of the infected by using a nearby wrench.
 [REC] / int_7104ae6a
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[REC] / int_7104ae6a
 [REC] / int_722b3319
type
Camp Gay
 [REC] / int_722b3319
comment
Camp Gay: Cesar. He's wearing a colorful ascot, jewelry and a pencil-thin mustache. In his short interview, he mentions that he used to live with his mother and now lives alone, makes catty comments about the Asian family, fusses about his appearance, and hits on the cameraman.
 [REC] / int_722b3319
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[REC] / int_722b3319
 [REC] / int_7286e96d
type
Idiot Ball
 [REC] / int_7286e96d
comment
Idiot Ball: The teenagers... Good Lord, what a bunch of idiots. And having the vial of potential demon blood uncorked and too close to the priest when he did a mini exorcism to test a small amount to see if it was possessed, leading to the whole thing going up in flames! But the officer wasn't sure what was going to happen. If anything it's the priest's fault for not telling him to take a step back. Plus, if you need her blood, and you just blew her head off, why not simply pick up her body? �ngela in the climax. Instead of using her arms she just lies still passively as the Medeiros girl possesses her.
 [REC] / int_7286e96d
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[REC] / int_7286e96d
 [REC] / int_7315fd38
type
Covers Always Lie
 [REC] / int_7315fd38
comment
Covers Always Lie: Several of the film's posters, such as these◊ ones, depict Ã�ngela with red irises. She not only never becomes infected, she's also apparently immune due to the fact that she was once the demon's host.
 [REC] / int_7315fd38
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[REC] / int_7315fd38
 [REC] / int_7464705c
type
Arc Words
 [REC] / int_7464705c
comment
Arc Words: "(You/We need to) film everything."
 [REC] / int_7464705c
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[REC] / int_7464705c
 [REC] / int_74911014
type
Internal Deconstruction
 [REC] / int_74911014
comment
Internal Deconstruction: To the previous two films' Social Media Before Reason: Koldo gets enraged when the cameraman Atún doesn't stop recording to help (this is something that also happened even all the way back on the first film, but Angela ordered the cameraman to continue) and smashes the camera as a result.
 [REC] / int_74911014
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[REC] / int_74911014
 [REC] / int_76e24530
type
Delicate and Sickly
 [REC] / int_76e24530
comment
Delicate and Sickly: Jennifer. At first it's thought she has tonsillitis, but it quickly becomes clear that she's infected with the virus.
 [REC] / int_76e24530
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[REC] / int_76e24530
 [REC] / int_7831c048
type
So Much for Stealth
 [REC] / int_7831c048
comment
So Much for Stealth: When �ngela and Pablo try to evade the Medeiros girl in the dark, of course they give their location away by knocking something over.
 [REC] / int_7831c048
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[REC] / int_7831c048
 [REC] / int_7abba202
type
The Faceless
 [REC] / int_7abba202
comment
Later, Pablo has one (although being The Faceless, you can only hear it in his voice), when he sees the Medeiros girl.
 [REC] / int_7abba202
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[REC] / int_7abba202
 [REC] / int_7b8b88f2
type
Raising the Steaks
 [REC] / int_7b8b88f2
comment
Raising the Steaks: Happens offscreen in the exposition dump provided by the Health Inspector. A dog who was sent to the vet because he seemed sick ended up going violent and attacked all the other animals, causing them to turn violent as well before the whole situation was finally quarantined. Said dog just happened to be Jennifer's dog Max. Soon most of the other survivors looked on at her, realizing what that means...
 [REC] / int_7b8b88f2
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[REC] / int_7b8b88f2
 [REC] / int_7fbb2a3
type
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
 [REC] / int_7fbb2a3
comment
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A rare pre-story case. The Church was searching for a medical cure for demonic possession. They were able to find the enzyme which caused demonic possession. Unfortunately, it mutated and spread. Now instead of a demon taking over one person, the demon can take over everybody who is infected.
 [REC] / int_7fbb2a3
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[REC] / int_7fbb2a3
 [REC] / int_7fbe9a30
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Freak Out
 [REC] / int_7fbe9a30
comment
Freak Out: �ngela has one after fighting with an infected and mistakenly believes that she's been bitten.
 [REC] / int_7fbe9a30
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[REC] / int_7fbe9a30
 [REC] / int_80251be3
type
How We Got Here
 [REC] / int_80251be3
comment
How We Got Here: Shortly after the teenagers are spotted by the SWAT team, it cuts to their camera, revealing how they got into the building.
 [REC] / int_80251be3
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[REC] / int_80251be3
 [REC] / int_83b5f960
type
Tank-Top Tomboy
 [REC] / int_83b5f960
comment
Tank-Top Tomboy: Angela simply wears a white tank top in all 3 films she's on.
 [REC] / int_83b5f960
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[REC] / int_83b5f960
 [REC] / int_863fa679
type
What Happened to the Mouse?
 [REC] / int_863fa679
comment
What Happened to the Mouse?: The young Asian boy and the elderly couple. All three of them are seen fleeing when the infected start breaking down the door that's keeping them contained, but afterwards, they are never seen again, not even among the infected in the sequel.
 [REC] / int_863fa679
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[REC] / int_863fa679
 [REC] / int_8806e0dd
type
Action Dress Rip
 [REC] / int_8806e0dd
comment
Action Dress Rip: After getting a sign that Koldo might still be alive, she gets to work preparing on reuniniting with her husband by ripping off the lower part of her wedding dress with a chainsaw. It definitely impresses Rafa too.
 [REC] / int_8806e0dd
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[REC] / int_8806e0dd
 [REC] / int_8c7a3a45
type
Are We Getting This?
 [REC] / int_8c7a3a45
comment
Are We Getting This?: A priest follows a SWAT team through an apartment building that is constantly ordering a cameraman to film various things they encounter.
 [REC] / int_8c7a3a45
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[REC] / int_8c7a3a45
 [REC] / int_8cb844c6
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Mr. Exposition
 [REC] / int_8cb844c6
comment
Ms Exposition: �ngela, explaining everything that we see to the camera.
 [REC] / int_8cb844c6
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[REC] / int_8cb844c6
 [REC] / int_8d630561
type
Simultaneous Arcs
 [REC] / int_8d630561
comment
Simultaneous Arcs: A television in the background of the CCTV room shows news reporters on scene at the apartment building where REC 1 and 2 took place, establishing both stories taking place at the same time. Some dialogue at the beginning of the film also establishes that Adrián's uncle is the veterinarian that was to take care of Jennifer's (from REC 1) infected dog.
 [REC] / int_8d630561
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[REC] / int_8d630561
 [REC] / int_905438eb
type
Recycled IN SPACE!
 [REC] / int_905438eb
comment
Recycled In Space: On a boat, actually, but in fairness it makes perfect sense. The researchers working on a cure or vaccine want to be able to keep infected from escaping and infecting a whole city. Hence, the boat also has a self-destruct.
 [REC] / int_905438eb
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[REC] / int_905438eb
 [REC] / int_906365a2
type
Demonic Possession
 [REC] / int_906365a2
comment
Demonic Possession: The true nature of the Virus.
 [REC] / int_906365a2
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[REC] / int_906365a2
 [REC] / int_90984c54
type
Glamour Failure
 [REC] / int_90984c54
comment
Glamour Failure: The Medeiros girl appears as the reflection of the infected/possessed people, giving more evidence to the fact that all the infected, no matter what their location, are directly under her control.
 [REC] / int_90984c54
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[REC] / int_90984c54
 [REC] / int_9182ea54
type
Crazy Cat Lady
 [REC] / int_9182ea54
comment
Crazy Cat Lady: Mrs. Izquierdo, the old woman whose breakdown after being infected sets the events of the film in motion, is referred as such by other characters. However, we never happen to see any of her pet cats...
 [REC] / int_9182ea54
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[REC] / int_9182ea54
 [REC] / int_98e87f7
type
Sinister Silhouettes
 [REC] / int_98e87f7
comment
Sinister Silhouettes: The very first appearance of Medeiros.
 [REC] / int_98e87f7
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[REC] / int_98e87f7
 [REC] / int_99298c71
type
Better to Die than Be Killed
 [REC] / int_99298c71
comment
Better to Die than Be Killed: Tuna the videographer decides to commit suicide rather than be killed/eaten/infected.
 [REC] / int_99298c71
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[REC] / int_99298c71
 [REC] / int_99ddfcec
type
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
 [REC] / int_99ddfcec
comment
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Nic showing off his hacking skills by hacking into the medical lab's cameras end up giving the Medeiros-possesed Guzman the idea to release one of the infected monkeys and start another outbreak.
 [REC] / int_99ddfcec
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[REC] / int_99ddfcec
 [REC] / int_9c1f758a
type
Kill It with Fire
 [REC] / int_9c1f758a
comment
And since '�ngela' gave the order to ''burn down the building'' they are most likely going to be toast...
 [REC] / int_9c1f758a
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[REC] / int_9c1f758a
 [REC] / int_9d12bbc1
type
Foreshadowing
 [REC] / int_9d12bbc1
comment
Foreshadowing: So much in the starting fire station sequence.
 [REC] / int_9d12bbc1
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[REC] / int_9d12bbc1
 [REC] / int_9d17b859
type
Made of Iron
 [REC] / int_9d17b859
comment
Made of Iron: Mrs. Izquierdo is INCREDIBLY sturdy. After she bites the older officer she is punched in the face by the firefighters, yet she gets back up for more, takes five shots to the chest by the younger officer later on and seemingly goes down, yet later on is up and running again, at this point she takes A SLEDGEHAMMER TO THE HEAD by Manu, and apparently she's down for good, but then in the sequel she is up AGAIN and attacks Larra, who manages to fire several rounds from his rifle into her chest. Just when you think she's finally down for good, less than 20 seconds later, she's up again and continuing her assault on Larra. DAMN
 [REC] / int_9d17b859
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[REC] / int_9d17b859
 [REC] / int_9dd2329c
type
Camera Abuse
 [REC] / int_9dd2329c
comment
Camera Abuse: The policeman is constantly shoving the camera and telling Pablo to turn it off. At one point, Pablo bashes in an infected's head with the camera. Later, another infected smashes his camera light.
 [REC] / int_9dd2329c
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[REC] / int_9dd2329c
 [REC] / int_9dd2cbc2
type
CloudCuckooLander
 [REC] / int_9dd2cbc2
comment
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: The elderly survivor from [REC] 3 is in some form of denial or shock about events in that movie, not realizing she's on a ship or that all of her family is dead.
 [REC] / int_9dd2cbc2
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[REC] / int_9dd2cbc2
 [REC] / int_9fdcad7f
type
Bald Head of Toughness
 [REC] / int_9fdcad7f
comment
Bald Head of Toughness: Manu the firefighter, a Boisterous Bruiser who's definitely the most useful character of the first REC movie. He kills more of the infected than anyone else in self-defence, manages to stand on equal authority with the policeman, and helped �ngela with Pablo get away from the mob with one last strong resistance.
 [REC] / int_9fdcad7f
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[REC] / int_9fdcad7f
 [REC] / int_a3026af9
type
Wedding Smashers
 [REC] / int_a3026af9
comment
Wedding Smashers: Doesn't gets more smashed than most of the crowd getting zombified.
 [REC] / int_a3026af9
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[REC] / int_a3026af9
 [REC] / int_a5a3ae2b
type
Orifice Invasion
 [REC] / int_a5a3ae2b
comment
Orifice Invasion: At the end, we see an extension of the ending scene of the first one, showing Medeiros vomiting a worm into �ngela's mouth.
 [REC] / int_a5a3ae2b
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[REC] / int_a5a3ae2b
 [REC] / int_a8a04f6f
type
And I Must Scream
 [REC] / int_a8a04f6f
comment
And I Must Scream: Hinted at the end of "Génesis''. Clara becomes infected and is shot by the soldiers, but Koldo and her reach for each other while they are dying in the ground. This actually could mean that possessed people are aware of their status, but cannot fight against it.
 [REC] / int_a8a04f6f
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[REC] / int_a8a04f6f
 [REC] / int_a939a527
type
Red Eyes, Take Warning
 [REC] / int_a939a527
comment
Red Eyes, Take Warning: All of the infected sport red irises.
 [REC] / int_a939a527
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[REC] / int_a939a527
 [REC] / int_abad35b4
type
Soundtrack Dissonance
 [REC] / int_abad35b4
comment
Soundtrack Dissonance: [REC] ends with what can only be described as an over-the-top Spanish rockabilly number.
 [REC] / int_abad35b4
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[REC] / int_abad35b4
 [REC] / int_ad1db87c
type
Oh, Crap!
 [REC] / int_ad1db87c
comment
Oh, Crap!: A lot of these moments in the film! Manu & the young cop when the military outside announce that it is a BNC (Biological, chemical or nuclear) situation Angela, when she makes the connection between Jennifer's story of her sick dog, Max, and the health inspector's story about the infected dog who became violent... Later, Pablo has one (although being The Faceless, you can only hear it in his voice), when he sees the Medeiros girl.
 [REC] / int_ad1db87c
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[REC] / int_ad1db87c
 [REC] / int_ad22fa80
type
Apocalyptic Log
 [REC] / int_ad22fa80
comment
Apocalyptic Log: The dictation machine found in the penthouse.
 [REC] / int_ad22fa80
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[REC] / int_ad22fa80
 [REC] / int_ad4c74ed
type
Final Girl
 [REC] / int_ad4c74ed
comment
Final Girl: �ngela, once again. For good this time, as the demon is no longer inside her.
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[REC] / int_ad4c74ed
 [REC] / int_aeec99a9
type
Immediate Sequel
 [REC] / int_aeec99a9
comment
Immediate Sequel: The second film chronologically starts five minutes after the end of the first.
 [REC] / int_aeec99a9
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[REC] / int_aeec99a9
 [REC] / int_b032e4ed
type
Ms. Fanservice
 [REC] / int_b032e4ed
comment
Ms. Fanservice: Both Angela and Clara. Every film that features Angela will have her lose layers of clothing until she's down to a white tank top by the end of it and Clara spends most of 3 in a wedding dress.
 [REC] / int_b032e4ed
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[REC] / int_b032e4ed
 [REC] / int_b06bbf4b
type
Be Careful What You Wish For
 [REC] / int_b06bbf4b
comment
Be Careful What You Wish For: �ngela spends most of the beginning bored out of her mind and wishing for something to happen so the program can get more exciting. Boy, did she get more than she could chew...
 [REC] / int_b06bbf4b
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[REC] / int_b06bbf4b
 [REC] / int_b3bdf232
type
Alien Geometries
 [REC] / int_b3bdf232
comment
Alien Geometries: The penthouse where Medeiros was kept changes in the total absence of light (the characters can only see the changes with night vision). In the original movie, the door that leads to where Medeiros was sealed doesn't appear until the lights are off. In the sequel, further exploration of this room reveals a well from where Medeiros reaches out and drags in the SWAT Chief; when the lights come back on, the well is gone, and there's only a sink in its place.
 [REC] / int_b3bdf232
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[REC] / int_b3bdf232
 [REC] / int_b7920c43
type
Lost in Translation
 [REC] / int_b7920c43
comment
Lost in Translation: Non-Spanish-speaking audiences fail to realize that Cesar, the one neighbour that blames the Japanese family for the crisis, speaks with an Argentinian accent and is in consequence an immigrant himself - which makes him a genuine hypocrite as well as racist. The dubbed version tries to help out by giving him a British accent.
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Definitely Just a Cold
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Definitely Just a Cold: She's not a zombie, she just... has tonsillitis! Really!
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Enforced Method Acting
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The scene where Alex suddenly thuds into the floor after falling from several floors. Not even the actors knew that this was going to happen.
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Berserk Button: Don't touch the fucking camera! �ngela does not like people trying to mess with it.
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Anti-Hero: �ngela takes some downright ruthless measures in her determination to escape, including releasing the infected cook on her armed pursuers.
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Dangerous Windows
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Dangerous Windows: One older tenant is attacked from behind while standing dangerously close to a glass front.
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I Have You Now, My Pretty
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I Have You Now, My Pretty: The demon decides that it prefers �ngela as a host after all, and tries to reinfect her. It doesn't succeed.
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Jump Scare
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Jump Scare: Several. Especially notable is Jennifer suddenly spitting her mother in the face (especially jarring since it comes out of the blue), followed by her later attacking the policeman. Then there's the boy in the attic... The scene where Alex suddenly thuds into the floor after falling from several floors. Not even the actors knew that this was going to happen. Jennifer's mother. Following her death, her corpse is shown lying on the ground as �ngela and Manu search the mailboxes... and when Pablo pans back around, she's suddenly standing up...
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Evil Gloating
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Evil Gloating: Once Guzman is found out as the carrier, the demon proceeds to taunt �ngela about how it loved how tenacious she was, but she is completely useless to it now that it has a better host. Leading I Have You Now, My Pretty.
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Zombie Infectee
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Zombie Infectee: Averted and played straight. One of the soldiers accepts having to be shot, another doesn't. Later, one of the doctors argues that they can find a cure in time to save him, unfortunately for him Dr. Ricarte just lets his soldiers shoot him in the head.
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Neck Snap: After being assaulted by the infected Japanese Man, Manu breaks his neck to give him and his fellow survivors a moment of brevity.
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Boom, Headshot!
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Boom, Headshot!: Owen kills one of the infected children this way. Towards the end, �ngela does the same to Medeiros. Shame �ngela was already possessed by this point.
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 [REC] / int_c3c18143
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Hope Spot
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Hope Spot: On two separate occasions, it looks like the couple will be able to escape. Then you remember what franchise this is. At first a couple of survivors and some children managed to make it to a bus and take it to safety, unfortunately the infected manage to break in and we noly hear the screams of the survivor's being overwhelmed.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: Invoked during the ending, when a possessed �ngela straddles Owen after beating the shit out of him, and mocking him before delivering the final blow.
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Self-Destruct Mechanism
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Self-Destruct Mechanism: Alongside it's lifeboats being rendered inoperable, the ship has also been given one which only Dr. Ricarte can activate. As all hell predictably goes loose Ricarte activates it, to prevent the ship from spreading the virus.
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Retirony
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Retirony: Captain Ortega keeps insisting it's his last voyage. It really, really is.
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Undead Child
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Undead Child: Mom is in denial to the bitter end:
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 [REC] / int_c9597a03
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Self-Deprecation
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Self-Deprecation: Half this, half Mythology Gag. Atún insists that he must keep recording to show the world what is happening at the wedding, the same reasoning �ngela and Pablo used to keep recording in the first film. However, Koldo has nothing of this and destroys the camera. From then on, the film proceeds in the traditional third person.
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It Can Think
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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. It also helps that their possessed nature can help them to mimick the voices of non-infected people to lure their prey.
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Taken During the Ending
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Taken During the Ending: When Angela and Pablo try to escape, Pablo is attacked by a ghoulish Tristana and he drops his camera. When Angela picks up the camera to use its night vision to see in the dark, she sees Pablo being eaten by Tristana, and then she's attacked and drops the camera and then is dragged into the darkness.
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Hollywood Darkness
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Hollywood Darkness: Averted: We see the action through a two-man tv crew's camera, when the light goes out, the camera light comes on, but when the camera light bites the dust, it gets very dark.
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Typhoid Mary
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Typhoid Mary: Whoever is the host to the demon parasite worm is immune to the virus, and is not infected once it leaves.
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Nothing Is Scarier
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Nothing Is Scarier: The films run on this quite a bit, especially the first film. At least, until all hell well and truly breaks loose.
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Serial Escalation
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Serial Escalation: In REC, it took a little while for the infection to take hold. In this film, it seems to take seconds. According to Word of God,the amount of time it takes for the infection to set in varies from person to person.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: While the first two films were strict survival horror, REC 3 added elements of romance drama due to Clara and Koldo's relationship and motivations. The film's use of traditional cinematography and the fact that the film actually had a musical score contributed to this trope. Genesis also features significantly more comedy than the previous two films, although it is slightly downplayed as it is still dark and very bleak overall with a Downer Ending.
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An Arm and a Leg
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An Arm and a Leg: After she gets bitten by her husband's deaf grandfather. Clara asks Koldo to cut off the infected arm before it fully takes her over, unfortunately for her it doesn't take.
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Broken Bird
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Broken Bird: �ngela is far more aggressive and brutal than in the first movie. Given what she's been through, it's hard to blame her.
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Writing Around Trademarks
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Writing Around Trademarks: The children's entertainer dressed vaguely as SpongeBob SquarePants (he's more a round loofah and has a vest) mentions that he is now known as Sponge John.
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Cesar proves he has this belief during his racist rant about the Japanese family.
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Religious Horror
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Religious Horror: While the infection certainly has a biological aspect, the end of the first movie strongly suggests, while the sequel confirms, that Demonic Possession also has a part in it.
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: Clara, while at first she's more of the Action Survivor type. Preferring to be on the run from the infected hordes. She finally has enough later on and arms herself with a chainsaw.
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Ear Ache
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Ear Ache: Jose has his ear shot off by a sniper.
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Pregnant Badass
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Pregnant Badass: At first Clara has a secret that she's been meaning to tell Koldo but never gets the chance too. However she finally reveals that she's pregnant over the PA system which serves as further motivation for them to reunite. Clara is also plenty badass grabbing a chainsaw and starting to fight off the infected to reunite with her baby's father.
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Playful Hacker
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Playful Hacker: Nic, who's also the ship's radio and security camera operator. He taps into the secret lab's cameras and recovers the footage from Pablo and �ngela's camera, overall he's a pretty decent and helpful guy.
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Voice Changeling
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Voice Changeling: The entity is able to talk with different voices in different bodies (an infected 40-year-old talking with the voice of the infected little girl is disturbing).
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Closed Circle
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Closed Circle: The movie takes place on a ship at sea, with the lifeboats made inoperable to boot.
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Insistent Terminology
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Insistent Terminology: "Sponge John", not Sponge Bob To avoid copyright issues.
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The Oner
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The Oner: A few, seeing how this is done in the style of a pseudo-documentary. A good example is the introductory scene, in which �ngela 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.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Tito.
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Death by Racism
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Death by Racism: Cesar. The moment he starts making racist comments about the Asian family, you know he isn't going to last long.
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Running Gagged
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Running Gagged: The moment that the movie goes on a Genre Shift from found footage to regular horror is when Koldo gets fed up with the cameraman not helping and just standing there recording (saying that everything must be recorded in a fashion similar to other characters had said on the previous films), and so wrestles the camera away and smashes it into the ground.
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Stairwell Chase
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Stairwell Chase
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Creepy Child
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Creepy Child: The infected Jennifer and the boy(s) in the attic from the first and second film.
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Cast the Expert
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Pablo Rosso, the film's cinematographer, "plays" the cameraman in the first two movies. Call it next level Cast the Expert.
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Together in Death
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Together in Death: Clara and Koldo at the end.
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Deadline News
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Dead Line News: The whole movie is a news broadcast going wrong.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: "Get everything on tape, Pablo! We have to record everything!"
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Accidental Murder
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Accidental Murder: As Jose is struggling with an infected Martos, Mire tries to shoot the latter. Given that she's a) scared out of her mind and b) inexperienced with guns, she accidentally shoots Jose in the head.
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Badass Preacher
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Badass Preacher: Owen.
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Littlest Cancer Patient / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
No Yay / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
No Zombie Cannibals / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Noodle People / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Not Using the "Z" Word / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Our Zombies Are Different / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Plague Zombie / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice / int_585e6ed6
 REC
seeAlso
[REC]
 [REC]
hasFeature
Raising the Steaks / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Religious Horror / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Room Full of Crazy / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Shot-for-Shot Remake / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Sleeves Are for Wimps / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Social Media Before Reason / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Stairwell Chase / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Taken During the Ending / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Tank-Top Tomboy / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
The Danza / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
The Oner / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
The Remake / int_585e72d6
 [REC]
hasFeature
The Virus / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Two-Part Trilogy / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Typhoid Mary / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Undead Child / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Voice Changeling / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Wedding Smashers / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Zombie Apocalypse / int_585e6ed6
 [REC]
hasFeature
Zombie Gait / int_585e6ed6