This is a Spanish foreign film, very hectic POV camera which is to be expected for the genre but it is at times very nauseating and sometimes you just want to see what is going on. All in all this is a good movie but just isn’t that unique.
⭐⭐⭐.5
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Ángela is our spunky reporter who is going to get the inside scoop on what happens during emergency calls when you work at the fire station. She is followed by her helpful cameraman, Pablo, and together they are going to make one Hell of a story. They arrive at an apartment complex after getting a call about a woman screaming alone in her apartment. Something is clearly off and the firemen go to inspect and find a very irate woman who is covered in what appears to be blood? Well if she wasn’t covered in blood before she was in a moment or so when she bites a chunk out of the face of one of the people there to help her. Woops! Anyways they hightail it out of the apartment but when they try to leave the complex they find themselves sealed in by the authorities? Whatever could be going on? Turns out there are some sick people in the building and it isn’t just a common cold they have come down with…
Ángela encourages Pablo to keep filming no matter what, that it is important to document all of this (whatever “this” is). After a LOT of panic a health authority figure is sent in from the outside to test the residents of the building. This is when folks start to turn into zombies really fast so don’t blink or you’ll miss it! The original guy who got bit is turning and he is biting people (woops) and it isn’t long before we are locking off another section of the complex because there are a bunch of undead sickos trying to feed on the living. We even have a little girl zombie who everyone underestimates because she is a little girl but don’t underestimate the small spunky ones! They will get you! Anyway At this point the health official has gotten bit and might I just say, don’t stand right next to a weak door with a Zomb-o on the other side if you want to survive into the next scene. I mean come ON.
Pablo continually rolling the camera makes sense for most of the film until we get to the near end where they are looking for the keys to the basement and possibly a way out. It is just very difficult to justify Pablo behind the camera then, like, come on buddy, put the camera down and help her look for the keys to escape, dog. It ends up being a good thing that he kept it around because they needed the flashlight later but still, I had to point it out. It finally gets down to just Ángela and Pablo, they make it up to the penthouse, they are more or less surrounded by the undead. The penthouse is a creepy shithole, to put it plainly. It has all these newspaper clippings about a possessed girl and lots of relics for Jesus and God but you can tell it is not a holy place.
Our film ends the way it unfortunately had to, there was no way anyone was going to get out of that cage alive. The two final babes find something in the attic which knocks out the camera's flashlight (woops) so now they are in the pitchest of black save for Pablo with his night vision. Through the lens Pablo can see a horrifying creature, I suppose it is supposed to be the possessed girl but it looks like something horrible and elongated, barely human. The witch-like creature scuttles into view with a weapon in hand, either a hammer or an axe, the two try to get away but a noise gives them up. Pablo is taken first and is bludgeoned with the instrument, next Ángela is dragged away. Credits.
