What if this movie is not named REC 3? Would you still HATE it?

That's a great question ... seeing as it is part of the series I do think it played a part in my enjoyment. I still would think that it was pretty average, especially compared to the first 2.

Still better then Rec 2, although that's not saying much, since that sequel is one of the most pathetic horror movies ever made.

When you rate a movie, it's supposed to be a rating for the entire movie. If you've only watched a fraction of a movie, don't assign a rating to it!

At the time of the presentation of rec3, I heard an interview to Balagueró explaining that they had to make a break to the rec serie, for their own sake. And therefore rec3 was going to be completely in a different tone to the previous ones (even making a little of fun to themselves or their conception of rec1&2).
Having said so, I find this movie not as good as the firsts but also it seems to me that people have been too hard on it by not accepting a different approach to the sequel. I understand that the comedy does not work that much to the sequel but Rec3 has good parts and it respects the rec universe from 1&2. The connections in time with the uncle dog bíte and the television showing the events on the building of rec helps to integrate it, and being an outplot of the serious rec does not break at all the sequel of rec.... And 4 was supposed to recover the style of 1&2 to end with the sequel (at least for a while).
Maybe they should have used a title that made clear that it was a different approach to rec series, but at least in Spain during the promotion it was clearly explained that it was an stop in order to recover later on the true scence of the series.
But, was it really that bad (if you consider that it was on purpose)? At least I enjoyed every minute of the wedding (ironizing of our weddings in a subtle way, and specially waiting for the moment that the infection took place). Maybe the development till the closing it last 5-10 minutes too long... But for the rest less than a 6 6,5 seems too hard for me.

"I would not hate it if it didn't use the REC name - I would merely be indifferent towards it.

But it DOES use the REC name so I absolutely despise it, especially as it has robbed us of a proper continuation of the original story."

My main problem is this: that it didn't really add to the mythos. The little telltale connections back to the previous films are not a continuation. They are half-assed tidbits being used to rationalize giving it the title of [REC].

I wanted more to the story. And with "Genesis" in the title, I wanted a prequel origin tale. This is neither [REC] nor Genesis.

I despise horror-comedy. I want my horror to be serious, scary, suspenseful, and disturbing.

It wasn't what I like, and it was what I don't like.


"Why oh why couldn't they have just given it a different name if they wanted to experiment with a horror comedy."

Yep. This is like calling a movie "Transformers" and then making it mostly about humans instead of being mostly about transforming robots.

Oh, wait.

Instead of the red circle symbol for "Record", I want to take a Sharpie to this movie and just draw a square symbol for "Stop". That would be more accurate.