i rewatched/loved this movie the other day and can't seem to find many other people that have seen it, so i figured i'd do a quick recommendation. back in 1999 (wow 10 years now) a big fuss was made about the blair witch project for the whole movie being filmed on a hand held camera in a documentary filmmaking style. cloverfield later did the same but one film that flew under some people's radar was a spanish horror film called rec. it's filmed in the same style and tells the story of a news reporter doing a report on the local fire brigade's night shift. it doesn't take long for them to get called out by a report of a woman being trapped in an apartment building. when they get there they break down the door and the woman goes crazy and bites one of the policemen there, like you do. obviously there's some kind of infection so later they get sealed in the apartment building by a hazmat team to contain the infection, and that's all i'll say. personally i really liked rec, but obviously subtitles aren't for everyone (the lazy) so america being america remade the movie. and surprisingly i liked it more than the original. the two are practically identically shot but with a bigger budget and a different cast - including the awesome jennifer carpenter (dexter's hot sister from the also brilliant tv series dexter).
it's quite interesting that unlike alot of films that get released the general rule is films start good and get worse/boring through the middle or towards the end but this film completely mirrors that. if anything it starts out pretty slow and builds and builds through the whole film as the shit hits the fan and get real intense by the end.
in summary: i love this movie, so give a look if you haven't seen it already.
