[REC]³ Genesis

    [REC]³ Genesis
    2012

    Synopsis

    A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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    Cast

    • Leticia DoleraClara
    • Diego MartínKoldo
    • Ismael MartínezRafa
    • Àlex MonnerAdrián
    • Borja González SantaolallaAtún
    • Emilio MenchetaVíctor
    • David RamírezCanon
    • Miguel Ángel GonzálezJohn Esponja
    • Ramon AgirreDanilo
    • Xavier RuanoCura

    Recommendations

    • 70

      Village Voice

      Giddy shots of the undead slogging through a decimated party-scape materialize the decadence and instability of upper-crust family life, even as groom and (pregnant) bride prepare to give birth to another generation of the Spanish elite.
    • 60

      Total Film

      Taking a weird swerve into rom-zom-com, the third [REC] shaky-horror ends up pulled apart by its own genre mutations.
    • 60

      Time Out

      Ditching the mock-doc aesthetic is a bold formal move, but without its immediacy and realism, [REC] 3: Genesis becomes just another walking-dead movie-and clocking in at a mere 80 minutes, one with no time for character development.
    • 50

      The A.V. Club

      Where the first two films maintained a breathless tone and found new ground in the zombie genre by linking a physical virus to demonic possession, [REC]3: Genesis runs out of ideas early, and becomes a slogging massacre spiked with callbacks and visual gags.
    • 40

      Boxoffice Magazine

      Paco Plaza turns his [REC] franchise on its rotting head with [REC]3: Genesis, switching up the series' blistering first-person-perspective terror for a more conventional, jokey and-much to the film's detriment-self-conscious approach.
    • 40

      Empire

      The early franchise frights are missing. There's some ironic light-heartedness in the nuptial set, the religious overtones are distractingly self-conscious.
    • 40

      The Guardian

      The dancefloor's full of bodies, the bride and groom have been backed into a corner by relatives desperate for their pound of flesh. Pretty much your average wedding, then.
    • 40

      The New York Times

      With slapstick smothering the scares, [REC 3] is further marred by a plot in which the muted Catholicism of its antecedents is turned up to full blast.

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