REC
Last night I was watching a Spanish horror film from 2007 called REC, directed by Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza. The story involves a TV news reporter (Manuela Velasco) and her camerman who are doing a feature on a night at a fire station. When they get a call about an elderly woman locked in her apartment the TV people go along with the firemen on what is seemingly a routine assignment. However, when they enter the woman's apartment she viciously attacks them and bites one. It turns out she is suffering from a virus which causes it's victims to enter a kind of homicidal frenzy, and is spread through bites. As the police and military seal the building, and the occupants increasingly fall victim to the disease, they are soon fighting for their lives. The entire film is shot as if it's being filmed by the news camerman, constantly handheld and shaking and swinging all over the place. It makes for a very intense and pretty claustrophobic experience. For fans of horror films it's well worth checking out. There was an English-language remake out last year called Quarantine.
Today was another really dull day at work, with nothing particularly interesting happening. As often happens when I get bored at work (which is most of the time) I escaped into my imagination.
I left work fairly sharply and went along to the Cineworld cinema to meet my Mum. We were going to see a preview of the film Coraline, directed by Harry Sellick and based on a novel by Neil Gaiman. It was a model animation film about a young girl called Coraline (voiced by Dakota Fanning) who moves with her parents to a dull old house with eccentric theatrical neighbours. However one day, a bored Coraline, whose writer parents are too busy to do anything with her, discovers a small sealed up door and that night dreams that the door opens and that she can enter through it into a magical version of the house where everything is fun and perfect and her mother - or "Other Mother" (voiced by Teri Hatcher) - and father or loving, doing and can't do enough for her, and where every single person has buttons instead of eyes. However, as the dreams become increasingly real, she soon discovers that the "Other Mother" is far more sinister than she guessed. The film was absolutely fantastic. I really enjoyed it. I saw it in 3D and it was really spectacular.
After the film I went along to my parent's house for something to eat and then went back home and topped up the credit on my mobile phone.
Today was another really dull day at work, with nothing particularly interesting happening. As often happens when I get bored at work (which is most of the time) I escaped into my imagination.
I left work fairly sharply and went along to the Cineworld cinema to meet my Mum. We were going to see a preview of the film Coraline, directed by Harry Sellick and based on a novel by Neil Gaiman. It was a model animation film about a young girl called Coraline (voiced by Dakota Fanning) who moves with her parents to a dull old house with eccentric theatrical neighbours. However one day, a bored Coraline, whose writer parents are too busy to do anything with her, discovers a small sealed up door and that night dreams that the door opens and that she can enter through it into a magical version of the house where everything is fun and perfect and her mother - or "Other Mother" (voiced by Teri Hatcher) - and father or loving, doing and can't do enough for her, and where every single person has buttons instead of eyes. However, as the dreams become increasingly real, she soon discovers that the "Other Mother" is far more sinister than she guessed. The film was absolutely fantastic. I really enjoyed it. I saw it in 3D and it was really spectacular.
After the film I went along to my parent's house for something to eat and then went back home and topped up the credit on my mobile phone.
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