Review of [REC]² (2009) by Alexis G — 03 Jan 2012

It scares, badly, make you shit in your pants without letting you wash them for the fear and horror flicks can't manage to do this very often today. Even without a rock solid, completely beliavable script, it achieved this through a masterful control of the language (tight, not gratuitous handy-camerawork), setting and backstory - never so disturbing from the times of The Exorcist: and you cannot understand it fully without knowing Barcelona and Madrid, the conflictual, vibrant religious identity of Spain inhabitants, the relationship there, in past and present, between Church and Secular Power.