Archive for August 2nd, 2009
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Aug
2009
Movie Review: Timecrimes
Rating: 
Directed By: Nacho Vigalondo
Starring: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Nacho Vigalondo
Plot Synopsis:
Lauded short film director Nacho Vigalondo makes his feature debut with this tense, unstoppable vision of science and natural law gone awry.
Hector (Karra Elejalde) is relaxing on a lawn chair outside of his new country home, surveying the nearby hillside through a pair of binoculars, when he catches sight of what appears to be a nude woman amidst the trees. Hiking up to investigate, he is attacked by a sinister figure whose head is wrapped in a grotesque, pink bandage.
Fleeing in terror, he takes refuge in a laboratory atop the hill, where a lone attendant (director Nacho Vigalondo) ushers him in to a peculiar scientific contraption. He emerges what seems to be moments later, only to find that he has traveled back hours in time, setting in motion a brain-twisting, horrifying chain of events. [Trailer Addict]
Review:
Timecrimes is one of those films that is best viewed when you don’t know anything about the film. Avoid the trailer on this one! All I knew was that it was a mystery, thriller involving some sort of time travel. If you go into the film like this, you’ll have a blast with this mind bending puzzle of a thriller.
2
Aug
2009
Movie Review: [REC]
Rating: 
Directed By: Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza
Starring: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza
Plot Synopsis:
A beautiful TV reporter (Manuela Velasco, Law of Desire) and her cameraman are doing a routine interview at a local fire station when an emergency call comes in. Accompanying the firefighters to a nearby apartment, the news team begins recording the bloodcurdling screams coming from inside an elderly woman’s unit. After authorities seal off the building to contain the threat, the news crew, firefighters and residents are trapped to face a lethal terror inside. With the camera running, nothing may survive but the film itself. [Sony Pictures]
Review:
If you saw Quarantine first, you got ripped off. Luckily, I purposefully delayed watching Quarantine until I viewed the original Spanish horror flick, [REC]. [REC] is a tight, edge of your seat scarefest that succeeds on the realism depicted. Something Cloverfield or The Blair Witch Project couldn’t achieve.
