[Rec] – The Final Scene
The Spanish movie [Rec] might just be the best found-footage horror movie of all time. I really stand behind that. It is so fucking good that I watched it without subtitles and no ability at all to speak the language and was still utterly enthralled by the entire thing.
While many thought this was a “zombie” film (as it does appear as one), I kinda thought it was a “people with rabies” film, which was fine by me. But the final moments in the movie revealed there was something more afoot here. While some people just saw it and assumed the thing in the apartment at the end of the movie was a nasty, gangly old person, there were things about it that indicated something inhuman. The extra long limbs, the size and shape of the head and body, and the noises it made. Truly a genuinely scary moment in a film that was full of them.
By [Rec 3] the series had gone a little off-the-rails, but the ending of the original was just about perfect when it comes to scaring your audience and sending them away with an uneasy feeling, which is a sign of success for a good horror film.