Jennifer is ill with what her mother, Mari Carmen, claims is tonsillitis. Ángela interviews a little girl named Jennifer who lives in the building. The camera crew remains trapped inside the building with the residents and continue recording. Pablo, Manu and the second policeman go up again and are attacked, forcing the officer to shoot Mrs. Álex, who remained in the old woman's apartment suddenly plummets through the stairwell to the lobby floor. Meanwhile, the building's residents gather in the lobby and look on as the police and military seal off the building. As they approach the old woman, she becomes aggressive and attacks one of the police officers, forcing the others to restrain her. When they arrive, Ángela and Pablo film the police breaking down the door. ![]() While they are recording, the firehouse receives a call about an old woman who is trapped in her apartment. In the firehouse, the team meets Álex and Manu. Ī television reporter, Ángela Vidal ( Manuela Velasco), and her cameraman Pablo, who cover the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the fictional documentary television series While You're Sleeping. Spanish company Filmax International is responsible for the production of the REC franchise and released all four installments. REC follows the night of a young reporter, Ángela Vidal, and her cameraman Pablo as they join a group of firemen during their night of work to an apartment building and end up quarantined there, with a terryfying virus spreading inside.Īs the first installment of the REC series, it was followed by three sequels REC 2 in 2009, REC 3: Genesis in 2012, and REC 4 in 2014 as the final installment in the franchise. The film was shot in Barcelona, Spain, and was filmed as a found footage film and used a "shaky camera" technique. I loved it! I’m sure you will, too.REC (stylized as ) is a 2007 Spanish found footage supernatural zombie horror film written and directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza. It’s all there, and it’s funny and scary and gory to boot. And full of the kind of morality that kids recognize, that they are drawn to because it makes sense. Interrelated in the story as it is in real life. In a completely seamless fashion, he also folds in such immediate and layered issues such as illegal immigration, corporate experimentation and a lack of regulative oversight, crop manipulation, genetic mutation (of crops and livestock), poverty as it affects the family, prejudice, bullying… but it all works. It’s not until Coach Cocoran attempts to eat their brains that the boys realize that the summer is not going to be quite so boring after all…Ī rollicking, smart ass, fast moving zombie story with twists and turns that are frightening in how believable they are – one would think that’s enough, eh? But not for author Bacigalupi. Coach Cocoran works at Milrow, in the R&D department, but that’s no reason for him to be out in the corn. Cocoran, wandering disoriented in the corn fields near Milrow’s holding pens. So when Rabi, Miguel and their geeky teammate Joe find themselves on the lam after a sudden ICE sweep of Miguel’s neighborhood, they think it’s strange to find their Little League coach, Mr. ![]() They, including Miguel’s uncle, tell of a strangeness in the plant that has many of the workers spooked that something is happening at the plant, something that is secret, and wrong.īut secrets tend to leak out in ways that are not successfully anticipated – or in any way expected. ![]() The public was at no risk they assured the town, and by nightfall the smell had pretty much blown away. Milrow claims that it was merely an unfortunate circumstance brought on by mechanical work that inadvertently opened long enclosed systems. One day, a smell wafts over the town – a horrible, gagging, infinitely worse-than-normal-even-for-a-meatpacking-plant smell that drives the workers out of the plant and sets off sirens inside. Sammy and his cronies are barely tolerable, as always. Still, it was shaping up to be a rather ordinary, uneventful summer. Which also means that Sammy is a jerk and a bully, especially to Rabi and Miguel and any other player whose parents weren’t born in the United States. But the star of the team is Sammy Riggoni, not because he’s the best player but because his dad runs the huge meatpacking plant, Milrow Meats, and is the richest man in Delbe, Iowa. His friend Miguel is the slugger of the bunch. Rabi is not the best batter on his Little League team he’s more a numbers guy. I’m not sure what motivated Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi to write a monster creature book geared at middle school kids, but I’m glad he did, because Zombie Baseball Beatdown is a smart, funny and well written tale that does a whole lot more than just conjure up the zombie apocalypse. Zombie Baseball Beatdown, by Paolo Bacigalupi
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