Saw Rec 2, the sequel to the Spanish found-footage zombie horror. This one picks up immediately where the first one left off: an apartment building with more entrances and exits than a rabbit's warren is surrounded by swat teams, containing the zombie-outbreak going on inside. We follow a swat team which enters the building, cameras whirring. They are being lead by a weapons-grade priest who very quickly establishes the punchline of the first film: these zombies are actually demonic possessions.
This allows for all kinds of wall-crawling and pyrotechnics. The zombies talk in little-girl voices and vomit blood and all kinds of fun. The religious angle is not really explored, it just provides a convenient excuse for all the fun and provides for some nice crazy-person set-decoration. This film is not really interested in exploring anything apart from wicked-awesome zombies/demons.
The film is fairly entertaining. Most of it is spent watching people rush about the building, it's true. There's less slow building and more arbitrary attacks, clearly broadcasted by a sudden slowdown in pace. I don't know if it's any better than the original because I don't remember the original very well. re-reading my review of it, I was taken by the ending. Indeed this film's ending has its own gif-ready horror which is completely gross and amazing. Good stuff. Not very clever or hard-hitting, but fun and relatively jolly and not so bad.
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