REC - Watch Order: REC Films
This watch order focuses exclusively on the four Spanish REC films that form the canonical storyline. The series begins with Ángela Vidal's terrifying night in a quarantined Barcelona apartment building, directly continues with the immediate aftermath, explores a parallel outbreak at a wedding, and concludes with the infection's final resolution.
REC 3: Genesis serves as a parallel story occurring simultaneously with the original film but in a different location. While it maintains continuity with the broader outbreak, it introduces new characters and breaks from the strict found footage format, making it both connected to and distinct from the core Ángela Vidal storyline.
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[REC]²
The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.
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[REC]³ Genesis
A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.
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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.
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The Omen
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