¡Qué horror! 2012
Candidate # 27
[REC]3 GÉNESIS
(March 2012)
While I’ve long
been a self-avowed Jaume Balagueró slut, I’ve never been too keen on Paco
Plaza’s Romasanta, so I really went
in to the original [REC] on the
strength of Balagueró’s past work.
Thus, when word
first broke that Filmax would be wrapping up the [REC] saga with two
films, I greeted the news with mixed emotions. On the one hand, I’d be getting
double the action. But that realization was offset by the fact that the [REC] co-directors were splitting up, so
Plaza would handle the third installment, Génesis,
and Balagueró would take on the fourth and final chapter, Apocalypse; I was stoked to see that Balagueró would close the
saga, but to get there, we’d have to cross Plaza’s Génesis first…
So I held my
breath, hoped for the best.
And what do you
know? I enjoyed this a hell of a lot better than Romasanta.
Imago Mortis’ Leticia Dolera and Diego Martín are
Clara and Koldo, a young couple whose wedding reception becomes the scene of a
full-on bloodbath, as one of the guests happens to have a connection to events
that played offscreen in the original [REC].
Now, though not
as somber and nerve-wrackingly straight-faced as the first two [REC] films, and foregoing the shakycam
found footage approach at a certain point of its running time, Génesis is still a good entry, not just
in the [REC] saga, but also in the
annals of zombie cinema. (And yes, I know they’re not “zombies” per se, but
this saga is nonetheless firmly ensconced in that section of horror cinema.)
Though I will go
on the record as saying I still think the first two [REC] films are significantly better, Génesis still packs a potent emotional gutpunch, and has some
stand-out moments of onscreen goreletting that shouldn’t disappoint.
And with that out of the way…
Onto Apocalypse…
([REC]3 Génesis OS’ courtesy
of impawards.com.)
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