5. [Rec] (2007)
What begins as a typical local news story devolves into a cacophony of violence and chaos when a television reporter and emergency workers are locked in an apartment building plagued by a viral outbreak. The camera jolts and jiggles with every step as they try to evade the infected who move with a lightning-quick rage. Every shot is dizzying and claustrophobic, putting the rotting flesh and twitching bodies of the various victims—including an elderly woman and a little girl—directly in the audience’s face. [Rec] brilliantly mixes the found footage and zombie genres to make an intense film that gets its claws into you and never lets go until its shocking ending.
