REC 4: Apocalypse

REC 4: Apocalypse(stylized as [REC]4: Apocalypse) is a 2014 Spanish horror film, and the fourth and final installment of the REC franchise.The film is a direct sequel to REC 2, taking place immediately after the events of the second film.[5] Jaume Balagueró, the director of the first two installments, returns alongside actress Manuela Velasco, who reprises her role of the imperiled reporter Ángela Vidal.[6] The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2014 and screened at the 2014 Sitges Film Festival on 3 October, before being released in Spain on the 31st of October.

The film was released in the United States by Magnet Releasing on 2 January 2015, both theatrically and on VOD.

Storyline
A Special Forces Team is sent to an apartment complex to rescue a reporter named Ángela and destroy the building. Following an attack by infected firefighters and residents, the team's survivors, Lucas and Guzman, complete the assignment. Ángela awakens on a ship, chained to a bed and remembering nothing. Dr. Ginard takes a sample of Ángela's blood for testing. Lucas and Guzman are also on board the vessel, which has been effectively quarantined by its isolation. After a failed escape attempt, Ángela is informed by Dr. Ricarte that she is not infected. Meanwhile, Guzman makes acquaintances with the ship's captain Ortega and the technician Nic, who reconstructs the events within the apartment complex with the aid of Ángela's camera. Nic sends the film to the doctors in their laboratory, where they begin experimentation with the pathogen.

The doctors discover that their test subject, an infected monkey, has escaped during a power outage the previous night. The monkey infects the ship's cook, who in turn contaminates the food. Ingestion infects the majority of the crew and guards. After an unsuccessful attempt by the doctors to cure the cook with an antidote, Ángela, Guzman, Lucas, and an elderly woman who survived an outbreak at a wedding, make for the bridge. On the way, the elderly woman is separated from the group, and Lucas stays behind to rescue her, only to find her infected, which forces him to shoot her down. Ricarte recognizes that the attempt to find an antidote has failed because it requires an unmutated strain of the pathogen. Shortly before he can initiate a self-destruct sequence, his assistant informs him of the reconstructed film, which shows Ángela being orally infected with a worm-like parasite by the pathogen's original carrier. Ricarte attempts to extract the parasite by forcing surgery on Ángela, who is saved when an attack by the now-infected Ginard allows her escape. Ricarte searches for Ángela, who ambushes him and bites him. Despite a scan of his blood reading negative, Ricarte is convinced that Ángela is tricking him. It is revealed that during Ángela's rescue, the parasite transferred to Guzman, who traps Ángela within the ship's bowels as Ricarte launches the ship's self-destruct sequence.

Lucas and Nic try and fail to start the ship's auxiliary engine, and Lucas is killed by the infected. Nic finds Ricarte attempting to flee in a lifeboat. Nic knocks Ricarte out, takes the lifeboat for himself and searches for Ángela. Nic finds her on the run from infected monkeys, which they manage to kill with an outboard motor. They are then attacked by Guzman, who attempts to transfer the parasite back into Ángela. Shortly before he succeeds, Nic and Ángela kill Guzman with a harpoon gun. Ángela and Nic leave the boat as all the infected chase after them. Ángela jumps into the ocean and Nic follows, escaping as the ship explodes. Underwater, the parasite was devoured by a predatory fish. During the credits, Ángela and Nic are shown in a cab, having made it home. But the fish start showing some symptoms of the infection.

Cast

 * Manuela Velasco as Ángela Vidal
 * Paco Manzanedo as Guzmán
 * Héctor Colomé as Dr. Ricarte
 * Ismael Fritschi as Nic
 * Críspulo Cabezas as Lucas
 * Paco Obregón as Dr. Ginard
 * Mariano Venancio as Captain Ortega
 * María Alfonsa Rosso as Anciana
 * Cristian Aquino as Edwin (the cook)
 * Carlos Zabala as Goro
 * Emilio Buale as Jesu
 * Javier Laorden as Médico Auxiliar

Release
The film premiered on 9 September 2014 on the Toronto International Film Festival[14] and screened on Sitges Film Festival on 3 October 2014.[15] Entertainment One released the film 2 March 2015 on Blu-ray and DVD,[16] the Blu-disc featured the Making-of feature "The Making of [REC] Apocalypse" in the United Kingdom.[17] Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the film on 14 April 2015 in the United States, as direct to video production.

Reception
The film received mixed to positive reviews, with some praising the return of Manuela Velasco. Spanish website ALT104 claimed that the film proves to be a worthy sequel to the franchise, but a weak way to end the series.

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 68% with an average rating of 5.33/10, based on 22 reviews. The site's critics consensus reads, "After a lackluster third entry, [REC] 4 gets the series back on track, at least to the level of the first sequel."[21]

Continuity
The Rec timeline (Including the comics)

Tristana

The experiment

[🔴Rec] 3:Genesis/The final comic arc

Zoombii

[🔴Rec]

[🔴Rec] 2

[🔴Rec]4 apocalypse/Trapped

Notes and trivia
Most of the film was shot in an actual Russian ship. They had only moved to a set when the filming process became to complicated on a real ship. When making the demon parasite, even though in Rec 2 it was CGI, in this movie it was an animatronic. The scenes were very physical to make, and even though Manuela Velasco had a fun time with the physicality, for Paco Manzanedo he had a hard time saying he "suffered like a dog".

Pablo Rosso, who played Pablo, Rosso, and was cinematographer of all four Rec movies said he "Loved all 4 recs as if they are my children, so It's been a great Privilege to be here from start to end of this adventure."

Manuela velaso's take on the character Angela Vidal (the character that she plays.), was that she was a person caught in a situation and trying her best to get out of it, which explains why even though she's a polite and happy person who will try to make the best out of everything, she will still be violent if nessecary.