REC 3: Genesis

REC 3: Génesis(stylized as [REC]3: Génesis)is a 2012 Spanish horror film directed by Paco Plaza.This film is the third installment of the RECseries. It is a parallel sequel to the first two films, taking place before, during and after the films. It was released in cinemas in Spain on 30 March 2012. with more international premiere dates that followed. The world premiere took place in Paris at the Grand Rex on 7 March, followed by midnight screenings at the South By Southwest Film Festival on 9 March. In the U.S., it was released via video on demand on 3 August and was released theatrically on 7 September 2012 in select cities. Sony Entertainment released the DVD on 6 November 2012.

It begins in the series' trademark found footage format but switches to traditional cinematography early on.

The film was followed by a fourth installment, REC 4: Apocalypse, in October 2014.

Storyline
Koldo and Clara are about to celebrate their wedding day and have gathered their friends and family in a sumptuous country house for the occasion. That evening, a veterinarian recently bitten by a dog develops abnormal behavior and becomes aggressive. In a few moments, an uncontrollable wave of violence sweeps over the party as an increasing number of guests are infected as a result of bites. Clara and Koldo are separated amidst the chaos. Koldo finds refuge in the kitchen with his cousin Adrián, Clara's sister Tita, the wedding photographer Atun and a copyright inspector nicknamed "Royalties". They escape through the air-conditioning ducts, apart from Atun due to his size. Outside, the group finds a police vehicle and a guest eating the policeman's flesh. After killing her, they try to contact the police, but Royalties is devoured by the now-infected policeman. The vehicle's sirens are triggered and alert the infected. The group escapes and joins other survivors within a chapel, which the infected cannot enter. Through the P.A. system, Koldo hears Clara say that she is safe as well as pregnant, and he decides to find her.

Clara and the wedding priest have found refuge in the video surveillance room and are helplessly watching the carnage unfold. Spotted by the infected, they escape and find Rafa, a friend of the couple, and Natalie, Clara's French friend who had retired to a room for sexual intercourse without realizing the situation. Clara, Rafa and Natalie flee while the priest immobilizes the infected by reciting a prayer. Meanwhile, Koldo arrives at the surveillance room and witnesses the massacre of Adrian, Tita, his grandmother, and others as they get cornered and eaten by the infected. Clara, Natalie and Rafa meet another survivor, childrens' entertainer "Sponge John". Natalie is bitten and Clara faces her infected mother. John shoots the mother before he himself is bitten. Clara and Rafa flee through a tunnel, but Clara turns around when she hears a song played by Koldo in the ballroom.

Clara, followed by Rafa, takes a chainsaw and fights her way through the infected, but Rafa is bitten and Clara is forced to kill him. Koldo enters the kitchen to find a dead Atun, having slit his wrists to prevent infection, and killing the Vet with a kitchen tool. Clara finds Koldo in the kitchen and both are surrounded by a horde of infected, which are suddenly paralyzed by the voice of the priest reciting scripture over the P.A. system. Clara and Koldo go out into the garden, but Clara is bitten by her infected grandfather, whose deafness renders him immune to the prayer. Koldo cuts Clara's arm just below the elbow to stop the infection, and they arrive at the estate's exit, where they discover that the authorities have quarantined the area. The attempt to stop Clara's infection fails, and she begins to show the first signs of infection; Koldo takes her outside where the police and a GEO team tell him to let her go. Clara and Koldo share a final kiss before Clara, now fully turned, bites his tongue off and then turns to attack the armed men, who shoot both of them down. In their final moments, Clara and Koldo hold each other's hands as they die of their wounds.

Cast

 * Leticia Dolera - Clara
 * Diego Martín - Koldo
 * Ismael Martínez - Rafa
 * Àlex Monner - Adrián
 * Sr. B - Atun
 * Emilio Mencheta - Tio Pepe Victor
 * Javier Botet - Niña Medeiros
 * Mireia Ros - Menchu
 * Carla Nieto - Rebeca Viñas
 * April jane Aningga - Wendy
 * Blai Llopis - Quiquín

Release
REC 3: Génesis was released on 30 March 2012 in Spain. It was released on DVD in August 2012. The US release date was 3 August 2012 via On Demand services with a 7 September 2012 theatrical release date that followed. It was released on DVD in the US on 6 November 2012.

Reception
The film has received a broad range of reviews, mostly mixed to negative, due to the straying from the original two films' serious overtones.

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 40% with an average rating of 5.24/10, based on 47 reviews. The site's critics consensus reads, "[REC] 3 Genesis discards the handheld POV of its predecessors and loses the franchise's fresh perspective in the bargain, upping the gags and gore to the detriment of the chills that audiences crave."[5]

Metacritic.com gave the film 45 out of 100 with mixed reviews based on 11 critics.[6]

At the New York Post, writer V. A. Musetto said the film is enjoyable to watch, giving it 4 out of 5 stars[7]

However, it received a negative review from Slant Magazine 's Ed Gonzalez, who said that "if a fourth entry wasn't already in the works, [Rec] 3: Genesis could have easily represented the nail in the franchise's coffin."[8]

However, in Spain, critics gave mostly mixed to positive reviews, stating that, even though it's not as terrifying as its previous instances, it's a very enjoyable gore film with a touch of comedy that renews the format of the saga.

Continuity
Rec 3 is a parallel sequel in the rec franchise. It takes place before and during rec 1 and 2, because it begins during the daytime, and ends the following day, and halfway through the film, a news report shows the events of Rec 2.

Notes and trivia
When making this parallel sequel, the whole crew got to do something new. Cinematographer Pablo Rosso got to use proper film cameras instead of running around as a character to film everything. Art director Gemma Faulia got to pick out props, flowers, layout, and the color scheme for the whole movie, and David Ambit got to intensify the gorey look of the infected. The casting director also played the Columbian woman from the first two movies. When shooting the party scene(the scene right before the infected attack), the actors and background characters had so much fun that they had almost forgotten that they were shooting a movie, which had added to the realism.

REC 3: Genesis
'''REC 3: Genesis is a Spanish horror film. This film is the third installment of the REC series.''' It is a parallel sequel to the first two films. It was released in theaters in Spain on March 30, 2012.