Despite being a zombie myself, I have only a passing interest in zombie movies and zombie media in general, largely because modern zombie media is unscary and also, very often, stupid.

But not this, not [REC]. I didn’t even know it was a zombie movie at first really, because it isn’t advertised as so. No, it’s advertised and appreciated as a horror movie because that’s what it is: a horror movie.

I got this film from 4chan’s /x/ board, where it’s very popular as the scariest film evar and stuff, and they ain’t kidding. [REC] is a very scary movie, and it achieves this effect via intensity. You don’t have Hollywood special effects and other fancy shiznit, it just grabs you by the eyeballs (or bites you by the eyeballs, as one scene would have it) and doesn’t let go.

This is how horror movies are made, Hollywood, sheez. I’m not going to watch the less-scary Hollywood remake of this, called “Quarantine” because I don’t want to see it bastardized like that. [REC] is a horror masterpiece, you don’t remake it.

Goddamn, two scenes near the end: absolutely incredible. Insane.