“We were talking about how it would be to make a horror film that we can write quickly, shoot quickly and release quickly,” Paco Plaza remembers when we ask how his and co-creator Jaume Balagueró’s zombie horror tale
[REC] came to be unleashed on viewers back in 2007. “Jaume and me met when we made short films in the Nineties and we were missing that feeling of freedom, of immediateness, of the craziness of doing something just for the fun of it. I think that was the spark that blew our minds to say: ‘Okay, let’s do a zombie film. Just very cheap. Let’s shoot it really quick’. I think it came from trying to get back that feeling of freedom.”