>>211511577 (OP)Below average. REC is, at most, a B-tier film.
In horror, everything since 1980 not from USA, England, Japan, or Korea is given a scoring handicap because it's rightfully assumed to be trash. That's why it's so remarkable when we find great films from outside those countries, like Martyrs, Let the Right One In, The Feast, Talk To Me, and the original Funny Games and Speak No Evil. It's also why people pretend that trash like Cargo, Raw, When Evil Lurks, and Skinamarink are in the same echelon - they weren't total trash despite being from the cinematic equivalent of a food desert, so we give them a 7/10 or higher as a participation trophy. By comparison, no one is surprised to find Get Out, The Descent, The Wailing, or Ju-On emerge from their respective countries. Great horror films are still infrequent nowadays, but when they emerge these are the places we expect to find them.
Take REC and make a faithful, shot-for-shot remake except it's in English and set in America, and no one would even remember it. Most "good" contemporary horror films from outside the named countries fail the same test.
(And before more retards like the above poster chime in, no the American film Quarantine does not meet the above criteria. It is not a faithful, shot-for-shot remake. It has many differences. However it is widely hated and essentially proves my point.)
>>211513582Also true.
>>211514383>>211514491Even worse, and they have no excuse.