The marketing budget for the film, NZ$7500, was used to create a website, where the remaining $5000 marketing budget would be given away to the member of the public who was judged responsible for the most good publicity generated for the release of the film. Rec 2 was released in New Zealand theaters by Vendetta Films on 13 November 2009.
1 in the Spanish box office and achieving the best opening weekend of the year for a Spanish film. It went on general release in Spain the first weekend of October, going to No. It was also shown at the Midnight Madness portion of the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, as well as the 2009 Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, and the 2009 Sitges Film Festival. The film premiered at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, out of competition. The film reunites the directors with many of the original cast and crew members of the previous film. Principal photography began on 10 November 2008 and wrapped in December 2008. As the response team arrived, Ángela went into hiding.įollowing the success of Rec, Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza signed on for a sequel. A flashback then reveals what happened right before the story's beginning: Ángela was captured by Medeiros and had a vermiform organism orally transmitted into her. She tells them that the mission has been accomplished, that Owen must stay inside due to being infected, and that the only survivor allowed to leave is Ángela. Ángela kills Owen and imitates his voice to contact the authorities. It is revealed that the demon possessing Tristana has now possessed Ángela. When Owen refuses to authorize their exit, Ángela attacks him and kills Rosso when he attempts an intervention. Owen is enraged because he needed the blood sample, but the unnerved Ángela can only think to leave the building. They are attacked by Medeiros, who kills Fernandez, and attacks Owen before Ángela blows her head off with a shotgun. The group finds a hidden door using the night vision on Ángela's camera. The group questions the possessed Tito and deduce from his cryptic answers that Medeiros is in the penthouse and that certain areas are only accessible in total darkness aside from infrared light. They lock Mire and Ori in a room and encounter reporter Ángela Vidal ( Manuela Velasco) shocked but safe. After Tito is infected, Owen, Fernandez and Rosso find the group. Jennifer's father is bitten and infected and killed by Owen and the GEO team, while the firefighter is attacked by Martos and killed accidentally by Mire, who kills Martos right after. They are unknowingly followed by three teenagers, Tito, Mire and Ori, and the police seal their exit. The father of Jennifer persuades a firefighter to help him enter the building through the sewers. They are attacked by a group of infected, and Larra, separated from the others and cornered into a room, commits suicide. Owen tells them that the only way to accomplish the mission now is to get a blood sample from Tristana herself. They then find a sample of Medeiros's blood taken by Albelda, but lose it to Fernandez's improper handling. The GEO operators search the apartment where Medeiros was held and find the body of Father Albelda, the original priest charged with the case of Medeiros's possession. He reveals that he is actually a priest sent by the Vatican to get a blood sample from a possessed girl named Tristana Medeiros, the root of the infection. Owen then uses religious mantra and a rosary to hold him off in a room. Ascending to the attic (where the first film ended) and finding it unoccupied, they return downstairs to investigate a disturbance and are attacked by infected residents.ĭuring the investigation, Martos is infected while encountering some of the possessed residents. Owen ( Jonathan Mellor), an official from the Ministry of Health, and a heavily armed GEO team of four (Fernandez, Martos, Rosso and Larra) equipped with video cameras are sent into a quarantined apartment building to find out what happened to its inhabitants, who have been rendered infectious and violent by a contagious virus.