The past few years have seen Spanish horror burst onto screens around the world thanks to some fairly high-profile Spanish directors making films in Hollywood, and Spanish films being remade for US audiences.  [REC] was remade into Quarantine, though there is no news on whether Quarantine 2 will be made (I haven’t seen it, preferring my horror in its original packaging).  While perhaps not quite as frightening as the original, [REC] 2 still had the audience jumping out of its seat fairly frequently.

Picking up a mere 15 minutes after the first film left off, a SWAT team goes into the quarantined apartment building with a health official to try and assess the situation.  They make their way to the penthouse, the source of the outbreak.  And there it turns out that the health official is really a priest, and that the contagion is the devil, and the devil is spreading.

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