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Even in Spanish, creepy is as creepy does

Posted by Dan  •  10 Oct 11:20 PM

For one reason or another, I never got around to seeing the horror film “Quarantine.” So tonight I did the next best thing: I watched the Spanish film “[REC]” from which “Quarantine” was adapted.

I’m glad I waited. While the film owes a lot to “The Blair Witch Project,” which famously made a video camera one of the film’s main characters, it has a few genuinely frightening moments.

Filmed in Barcelona, Spain, “[REC]” has a simple story line: A television crew for a show titled “While you Sleep” decides to do a segment on firefighters. When they go on a call, they find themselves in an apartment building that boasts strange happenings.

Before long, the bad stuff starts. And as Jeff Goldblum says in “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” “Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.”

I could even understand some of the Spanish. Oooooooh, muchachos, que miedo.