History Film / REC

* BittersweetEnding: The only movie in the franchise to not end on a complete [[DownerEnding downer]] - [[spoiler: Ángela and Nic both survive, escaping the ship and making it back to dry land. On the other hand, the demon is still alive, and is last seen using a fish as its next host, before presumably going off to start the whole nightmare once again.]]

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:As Jose is struggling with an infected, Mire tries to shoot the latter. Given that she's a) scared out of her mind and b) inexperienced with guns, she accidentally shoots Jose in the head.]]

** Although, to be fair, he does outlast a lot of people, [[spoiler: including the Asian family.]]

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:For poor Mari. Not only for her child Jennifer to end up being infected, but also end up being cuffed to a banister due to her hysterical reactions. Which becomes even worse for her when Sergio ends up becoming infected. This renders her helpless and stuck as the infected are already homing in on her and the survivors.]]

* DropTheHammer: Manu uses a sledgehammer as a weapon against the infected. [[spoiler: Medeiros uses a claw hammer as a weapon during the finale and the second film.]]

* NeckSnap: Manu on the Asian man.

* SacrificalLamb: [[spoiler: Martos]] is the only member of the team to get taken out early on, getting infected barely fifteen minutes in.

* ArtifactTitle: The latter two films in the series ditch the found footage style of filming present in the first two.[[note]]REC denotes the "record" feature of a camcorder.[[/note]]

* MadeofIron: Mrs. Izquierdo is INCREDIBLY sturdy. After she bites the older officer she is punched in the face by the firefighters, yet she gets back up for more, takes five shots to the chest by the younger officer later on and seemingly goes down, yet later on is up and running again, at this point she takes A SLEDGEHAMMER TO THE HEAD by Manu, and apparently she's down for good, [[spoiler: but then in the sequel she is up AGAIN and attacks Larra, who manages to fire several rounds from his rifle into her chest. Just when you think she's finally down for good, less than 20 seconds later, she's up again and continuing her assault on Larra. DAMN]]

%%* PregnantBadass

** The switchblade Atun accidentally drops down the sewer.

* ActionGirl: [[spoiler: Ángela]] right at the end of the second movie, [[spoiler: right before you discover she is actually possessed by Medeiros]].
* AlienGeometries: As confirmed in [REC]2, [[spoiler:the penthouse where Medeiros was kept changes in the total absence of light (the characters can only see the changes with night vision)]]. In the original movie, [[spoiler:the door that leads to where Medeiros was sealed doesn't appear until the lights are off]]. In the sequel, [[spoiler:further exploration of this room reveals a well from where Medeiros reaches out and drags in the SWAT Chief; when the lights come back on, the well is gone, and there's only a sink in its place.]]

* TitleDrop / NonIndicativeName: While the subtitle ''Genesis'' makes you think it's an OriginStory for the series (as films with those titles regularly do), in this case it is that the passage of TheBible that the priest reads over the PA system to keep the zombies at bay is the Book of Genesis.

''[REC]'' (2007) is a [[SpanishFilms Spanish]] horror film following a news reporter, Ángela Vidal, and her cameraman, Pablo, as they cover the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the fictional documentary ''While You Sleep''. However, the two intrepid reporters get much more than they bargained for when the firehouse receives a call from an apartment building about a woman who is trapped. As they tag along with the rescue effort, Ángela and Pablo find themselves actually chronicling the discovery and progression of an apparent zombie outbreak in an apartment building, which forces the police and military to seal off the building, trapping everyone inside. Soon they are forced to fight for their lives, as the virus slowly takes over the residents and firemen around them.

In 2008, the first ''[REC]'' was [[ForeignRemake remade in America]] as ''Film/{{Quarantine}}''. In 2009 a sequel, ''[REC] 2'', was released. The third film, called ''[REC] 3: Génesis'' takes place at roughly the same time as the events of the first two films are happening, and the fourth and final film, ''[REC] 4: Apocalipsis'', has been announced, from the same writers and directors as the first two ''[REC]'' films. ''[REC] Apocalipsis'' will end the saga with the infection spreading to unknown proportions; the film was released in Spain on October 31, 2014.

** [[spoiler: The second film confirms it: the virus is actually the vehicle of a worm-like [[DemonicallyPossessed demonic entity]] which uses it to [[HiveMind control the infected]] and [[HiveQueen jump its mind from one to another]], and is able to talk with different voices in different bodies (an infected 40 year old talking with the voice of the infected little girl is disturbing).]]

* OrificeInvasion: [[spoiler:At the end, we see an extension of the ending scene of the first one, showing Medieros vomiting a worm into Ángela's mouth.]]

* YourMom: The demon, when asked where it [that is, the Medieros girl] is hiding, retorts, "Your mother's cunt!"

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Hinted at the end of "Génesis''. Clara becomes infected and is shot by the soldiers, but Koldo and her reach for each other while they are dying in the ground. This actually could mean that possesed people are aware of their status, but cannot fight against it.]]

** The switchblade Atun accidently drops down the sewer.

* GlamourFailure: [[spoiler: The Medeiros girl appears as the reflection of the infected/posessed people, giving more evidence to the fact that all the infected, no matter what their location, are directly under her control.]]

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This movie differed significantly from the formula associated with the saga so far. [[spoiler: At first it seems like it's gonna be a FoundFootageFilms like the other movies, but at the end of the first act the camera gets smashed and then it jumps to a traditional style of filming. Besides, no main characters from the first two movies appear on the third. Lastly, it has more parodic elements, it is more of a dark comedy than a horror film at times]]

* BittersweetEnding: The only movie in the franchise to not end on a complete [[DownerEnding downer]] - [[spoiler: Ángela and Nic both survive, escaping the ship and making it back to dry land. On the other hand, the demon is still alive, and is last seen utilising a fish as its next host, before presumably going off to start the whole nightmare once again.]]

* WeddingSmashers

** The cop who goes to get Jennifer knows the virus is spread by biting and that people who are infected can become aggressive at any time. And yet he tries to carefully walk up to her with no gloves or protection on to inject her with a tranquilizer.

''[REC]'' (2007) is a Spanish horror film following a news reporter, Ángela Vidal, and her cameraman, Pablo, as they cover the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the fictional documentary ''While You Sleep''. However, the two intrepid reporters get much more than they bargained for when the firehouse receives a call from an apartment building about a woman who is trapped. As they tag along with the rescue effort, Ángela and Pablo find themselves actually chronicling the discovery and progression of an apparent zombie outbreak in an apartment building, which forces the police and military to seal off the building, trapping everyone inside. Soon they are forced to fight for their lives, as the virus slowly takes over the residents and firemen around them.

* NeverTrustATrailer: Several of the film's posters, such as [[http://cdn.bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/REC-4-poster-717x1024.jpg these]] [[http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3231637/exclusive-rec4-apocalypse-teaser-poster-sees-red/ ones]], depict Ángela with [[spoiler: red irises. She not only never become infected, she's also immune due to the fact that she was once the demon's host.]]

* NeverTrustATrailer: Several of the film's posters, such as [[http://cdn.bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/REC-4-poster-717x1024.jpg these]] [[http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3231637/exclusive-rec4-apocalypse-teaser-poster-sees-red/]], depict Ángela with [[spoiler: red irises. She not only never become infected, she's also immune due to the fact that she was once the demon's host.]]

* NeverTrustATrailer: Several of the film's posters, such as [[http://cdn.bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/REC-4-poster-717x1024.jpg these]] [[http://bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/rec-4-apocalypse-teaser-watermarked.jpg ones]], depict Ángela with [[spoiler: red irises. She not only never become infected, she's also immune due to the fact that she was once the demon's host.]]