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[Rec]³: Génesis (2012)
what the actual f*** was this piece of crap
So, Rec 3 was playing at the Melbourne International Film Festival. As both a huge horror fan and huge fan of Rec, I had to go.
I was so excited to see this film. Finally, we were going to learn of the origins of the infection! We were going to learn about the Medeiros girl, who she was, how she came to be the first infected, what the Vatican had to do with everything, the experiments that were conducted, how the enzyme was isolated... We were going to learn SO MUCH COOL STUFF about how the infection happened!
Except NO. THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED.
What happened instead was a random story about a random couple that got married and the uncle of the groom was randomly bitten by some random dog that was apparently randomly infected with the virus. Cue random outbreak of infected people and the film randomly going from hand-held camera filming style to 35mm motion picture film gauge. Cue the bride brandishing a chainsaw and going all Bruce Campbell from The Evil Dead trilogy on the zombies while her husband stumbles about in St. George's heavy knight armour like he's Sir Lancelot (I'm not even kidding). With lots of tongue-in-cheek humour that made me feel like I was watching a modern-day Grindhouse movie. And a priest that "stops" the zombies at the end by reading a bible over the PA system.
No explanation of how the virus got out. No explanation of how the virus started. No information about the Medeiros girl. Nothing at all really related to the previous two movies apart from vague insinuations that led nowhere. Nothing explained at all. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zippo. Zero.
The ONLY good thing about this movie is that the two main characters - the bride and the groom, both of whom I couldn't stand - die at the end. Had one or both of them survived, I would have felt even more p*ssed off and ripped off than I already did. I couldn't even appreciate the reasonably well done gore because of how p*ssed off I was at this film.
My rating: -10/10.