Indeed was one of the next big screen hits for found footage, following just a month after Paranormal Activity (2007) and preceding Cloverfield (2008) by another two months. While this may be true of video, the format’s natural home after all, theatrically released found footage films remained hard to find for many years. It’s often believed that in the wake of the global success of The Blair Witch Project (1999), the found footage horror film was everywhere.
Medeiros was sealed in the block and left to starve to death – but she’s still alive and the contagion is spreading… A health inspector tells the trapped survivors that the authorities suspect it’s been caused by a strain of a rabies-like infection but as survivor numbers continue to dwindle, Ángela and Pablo make a horrifying discovery in the penthouse – the infection has been caused by an enzyme extracted from a possessed young Portuguese girl named Tristana Medeiros (Javier Botet) by Vatican researchers. Whatever is causing Mrs Izquierdo’s madness soon spreads through the trapped residents of the block who are killed but return as highly aggressive zombies. When they arrive, they are attacked by the old woman and the apartment block is immediately sealed off by police and military. The crew are called to help an old woman, Mrs Izquierdo (Martha Carbonell) who is apparently trapped in her apartment and seemingly in some distress. Television reporter Ángela Vidal ( Manuela Velasco) and cameraman Pablo (Pablo Rosso) are assigned a seemingly mundane task, to follow the night shift at a fire station in Barcelona for the late night show While You’re Asleep. Romero cross-pollinated the two genres the same year in Diary of the Dead but where Romero’s film didn’t stick to the rules and included music and camera angles that are hard to explain, stays true to the form, maintaining a single-camera viewpoint, though it also lacks the hit-and-miss, sometimes ill-developed satire of Romero’s film which it replaces with a more visceral, no-nonsense approach. Spanish directors Jaume Balagueró ( Los sin nombre/The Nameless (1999), Darkness (2002), Frágiles/Fragile (2005)) and Paco Plaza ( El segundo nombre/Second Name (2002), Romasanta (2004)) joined forces for this impressive found footage/ zombie film that gave birth to a franchise that ran to three sequels.
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