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* AreWeGettingThis: A priest follows a SWAT team through an apartment building that is constantly ordering a cameraman to film various things they encounter.
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* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Martos]] is the only member of the team to get taken out early on, getting infected barely fifteen minutes in.

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* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Martos]] [[spoiler:Martos]] is the only member of the team to get taken out early on, getting infected barely fifteen minutes in.



* VoiceChangeling: [[The entity is able to talk with different voices in different bodies (an infected 40-year-old talking with the voice of the infected little girl is disturbing).]]

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* VoiceChangeling: [[The [[spoiler:The entity is able to talk with different voices in different bodies (an infected 40-year-old talking with the voice of the infected little girl is disturbing).]]

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* MysticalPlague: While TheVirus certainly has a biological aspect, the climax of the first movie suggests that DemonicPossession also has a part in it. [[spoiler:The second film confirms it: the virus is actually the vehicle of a worm-like demonic entity that seemingly lives in the digestive system and can be passed from person to person.]]



* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Nobody survives the virus.]]
* SocialMediaBeforeReason: "Keep recording, for your fucking mother!!!". Throughout two-and-one-act-of-the-third films, people are given to record the whole situation because they either believe they should (or are ordered to) keep a record of all the craziness that is going on. Obviously many characters are ''not'' happy about it.

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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Nobody [[spoiler:Nobody survives the virus.]]
* SocialMediaBeforeReason: "Keep recording, for your fucking mother!!!". mother!" Throughout two-and-one-act-of-the-third films, people are given to record the whole situation because they either believe they should (or are ordered to) keep a record of all the craziness that is going on. Obviously Obviously, many characters are ''not'' happy about it.



* TheVirus: While the doctor character compares the outbreak to rabies and the tape to influenza, the climax suggests the contagion has a supernatural origin. [[spoiler: The second film confirms it: the virus is actually the vehicle of a worm-like [[DemonicallyPossessed demonic entity]] which uses it to [[HiveMind control the infected]] and [[HiveQueen jump its mind from one to another]], and is able to talk with different voices in different bodies (an infected 40-year-old talking with the voice of the infected little girl is disturbing).]]

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* TheVirus: While the doctor character compares the outbreak to rabies and the tape to influenza, the climax suggests the contagion has a supernatural origin. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The second film confirms it: the virus is actually the vehicle of a worm-like [[DemonicallyPossessed demonic entity]] which uses it to [[HiveMind control the infected]] and [[HiveQueen jump its mind from one to another]], and is able to talk with different voices in different bodies (an infected 40-year-old talking with the voice of the infected little girl is disturbing).]]another]].



* SerialEscalation: In ''REC'', it took a little while for the infection to take hold. In this film, it seems to take seconds.
** According to Word of God,the amount of time it takes for the infection to set in varies from person to person.

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* SerialEscalation: In ''REC'', it took a little while for the infection to take hold. In this film, it seems to take seconds.
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seconds. According to Word of God,the amount of time it takes for the infection to set in varies from person to person.


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* VoiceChangeling: [[The entity is able to talk with different voices in different bodies (an infected 40-year-old talking with the voice of the infected little girl is disturbing).]]

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* CarryABigStick: Manu uses a sledgehammer or mallet, as a weapon against the infected and to break down a door.. [[spoiler: Medeiros uses a claw hammer as a weapon during the finale and the second film.]]



* DropTheHammer: Manu uses a sledgehammer or mallet, as a weapon against the infected and to break down a door.. [[spoiler: Medeiros uses a claw hammer as a weapon during the finale and the second film.]]
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* MsFanservice: Both Angela and Clara. Every film that features Angela will have her lose layers of clothing until she's down to a white tank top by the end of it and Clara spends most of ''3'' in a wedding dress.
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: The sole survivor of ''[REC] 3'' returns only to become infected partway though.]]

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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: The sole survivor of ''[REC] 3'' returns only to become infected partway though.]]]][[note]] she is not actually anywhere in the prior film.[[/note]]
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* TakenDuringTheEnding: [[spoiler:When Angela and Pablo try to escape, Pablo is attacked by a ghoulish Tristana and he drops his camera. When Angela picks up the camera to use its night vision to see in the dark, she sees Pablo being eaten by Tristana, and then she's attacked and drops the camera and then is dragged into the darkness]].
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In 2008, the first ''[REC]'' was [[ForeignRemake remade in America]] as ''Film/{{Quarantine}}''. In 2009, a sequel, ''[REC] 2'', was released. A third film, called ''[REC] 3: Génesis'' (2011), takes place at roughly the same time as the events of the first two films, but follows a different cast in another location. The fourth film in the series, ''[REC] 4: Apocalipsis'' (2014), concludes the saga with the infection spreading to unknown proportions.

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In 2008, the first ''[REC]'' was [[ForeignRemake remade in America]] as ''Film/{{Quarantine}}''.''Film/Quarantine2008''. In 2009, a sequel, ''[REC] 2'', was released. A third film, called ''[REC] 3: Génesis'' (2011), takes place at roughly the same time as the events of the first two films, but follows a different cast in another location. The fourth film in the series, ''[REC] 4: Apocalipsis'' (2014), concludes the saga with the infection spreading to unknown proportions.
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However, the two intrepid reporters get much more than they bargained for when the firehouse receives a call from a residential building about an old woman being unwell and trapped in her own apartment. As they tag along with the rescue effort, Ángela and Pablo find themselves chronicling the discovery and progression of an apparent zombie outbreak in the building, which is sealed off by the authorities, trapping everyone inside. Soon they are forced to fight for their lives, as TheVirus slowly takes over the tenants and responders.

In 2008, the first ''[REC]'' was [[ForeignRemake remade in America]] as ''Film/{{Quarantine}}''. In 2009 a sequel, ''[REC] 2'', was released. The third film, called ''[REC] 3: Génesis'' (2011) takes place at roughly the same time as the events of the first two films, but follows a different cast in another location. The fourth and final film, ''[REC] 4: Apocalipsis'' (2014), concludes the saga with the infection spreading to unknown proportions; the film was released in Spain on October 31, 2014.

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However, the two intrepid reporters get much more than they bargained for when the firehouse receives a call from a residential building about an old woman being unwell and trapped in her own apartment. As they tag along with the rescue effort, Ángela and Pablo find themselves chronicling the discovery and progression of an apparent zombie outbreak in the building, which is sealed off by the authorities, trapping everyone inside. Soon Soon, they are forced to fight for their lives, lives as TheVirus slowly takes over the tenants and responders.

In 2008, the first ''[REC]'' was [[ForeignRemake remade in America]] as ''Film/{{Quarantine}}''. In 2009 2009, a sequel, ''[REC] 2'', was released. The A third film, called ''[REC] 3: Génesis'' (2011) (2011), takes place at roughly the same time as the events of the first two films, but follows a different cast in another location. The fourth and final film, film in the series, ''[REC] 4: Apocalipsis'' (2014), concludes the saga with the infection spreading to unknown proportions; the film was released in Spain on October 31, 2014.
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} [[caption-width-right:300:''[[{{Tagline}} Experience Fear.]]]]]]'']]



''[REC]'' (2007) is a [[SpanishFilms Spanish]] horror film following a news reporter, Ángela Vidal, and her cameraman, Pablo, as they cover the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the fictional documentary series ''While You Sleep''.

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''[REC]'' (2007) is a 2007 [[SpanishFilms Spanish]] horror film following a news reporter, Ángela Vidal, and her cameraman, Pablo, as they cover the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the fictional documentary series ''While You Sleep''.

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* PregnantBadass: At first Clara has a secret that she's been meaning to tell Koldo but never gets the chance too. However she finally reveals that she's pregnant over the PA system which serves as further motivation for them to reunite.

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* PregnantBadass: At first Clara has a secret that she's been meaning to tell Koldo but never gets the chance too. However she finally reveals that she's pregnant over the PA system which serves as further motivation for them to reunite. Clara is also plenty badass grabbing a chainsaw and starting to fight off the infected to reunite with her baby's father.



* DualWielding: After escaping the clutches of Dr. Ricarte and the remaining doctors when they try to do a vivisection, she breaks out a fire axe and carries it alongside a scalpel she stole.



* ImprovisedWeapon: A boat motor, used by Nic on some of the infected, and by [[spoiler: him and Ángela]] against the infected monkeys.
* LethalChef: While he's an okay chef when alive, after he's infected the chef serves up meat that's also infected to the soldiers. This causes most of the ship to become infected by the virus.
* PlayfulHacker: Nic. He taps into the cameras and recovers the footage on Ángela's camera.

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* ImprovisedWeapon: A boat motor, As Lucas and Guzman look through the ship's fishing supplies for more weapons, they manage to find a couple of spear guns and also a outboard motor. Just like the chainsaw from ''[REC] 3'', it is used by Lucas, Nic on some of and even Angela, the infected, and by [[spoiler: him and Ángela]] latter two even use it to fight against the infected monkeys.
monkeys. Some of the posters for the film even had Angela posing with it.
* LethalChef: While he's Downplayed. After Edwin fights off and kills an okay chef when alive, after he's infected monkey by ''cooking it on a pan'', it ends up being unintentionally served to the chef serves up meat that's also crew when Goro tastes whats left of the infected to monkey and lets the soldiers. This causes most of the ship to become infected by the virus.
others taste it.
* PlayfulHacker: Nic. Nic, who's also the ship's radio and security camera operator. He taps into the secret lab's cameras and recovers the footage on from Pablo and Ángela's camera.camera, overall he's a pretty decent and helpful guy.



* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Guzman is now the demon's host, having exited Ángela's body and possessing him in the apartment complex.]]
* SelfDestructMechanism: The boat is equipped with one which only Dr. Ricarte can activate.

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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: After Ricarte finds out that Ángela can't spread the virus via saliva, it's revealed that Guzman is now the demon's host, having exited Ángela's body and started possessing him in since the apartment complex.]]
* SelfDestructMechanism: The boat is equipped with Alongside it's lifeboats being rendered inoperable, the ship has also been given one which only Dr. Ricarte can activate. As all hell predictably goes loose Ricarte activates it, to prevent the ship from spreading the virus.



* ZombieInfectee: Averted and played straight. One of the soldiers accepts having to be shot, another doesn't. Later, one of the doctors argues that they can find a cure in time to save him.

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* WrenchWhack: The ship's engineer Jesu saves himself from one of the infected by using a nearby wrench.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Nic showing off his hacking skills by hacking into the medical lab's cameras end up [[spoiler:giving the Medeiros-possesed Guzman the idea to release one of the infected monkeys and start another outbreak.]]
* ZombieInfectee: Averted and played straight. One of the soldiers accepts having to be shot, another doesn't. Later, one of the doctors argues that they can find a cure in time to save him.him, unfortunately for him Dr. Ricarte just lets his soldiers shoot him in the head.

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* ActionDressRip: Done by Clara. ''With a chainsaw.''
* ActionGirl: Clara.

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* ActionDressRip: Done After getting a sign that Koldo might still be alive, she gets to work preparing on reuniniting with her husband by Clara. ''With ripping off the lower part of her wedding dress ''with a chainsaw.''
chainsaw''. It definitely impresses Rafa too.
* ActionGirl: Clara.Clara, while at first she's more of the ActionSurvivor type. Preferring to be on the run from the infected hordes. She finally has enough later on and arms herself with a chainsaw.



* AllThereInTheScript: Names of some wedding guests (Wendy, Leire, Cuca and Germán) are listed in the end credits, but their names were not mentioned in the film.
** Clara's unnamed mother is listed as "Menchu", and the elderly woman at the chapel is credited as "Amelia".
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Clara. It doesn't take.]]

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* AllThereInTheScript: Names of some wedding guests (Wendy, Leire, Cuca and Germán) are listed in the end credits, but their names were not mentioned in the film.
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film. Clara's unnamed mother is listed as "Menchu", and the elderly woman at the chapel is credited as "Amelia".
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Clara. It [[spoiler:After she gets bitten by her husband's deaf grandfather. Clara asks Koldo to cut off the infected arm before it fully takes her over, unfortunately for her it doesn't take.]]



* ChainsawGood
* ChekhovsGun: The PA system. [[spoiler: Clara uses it early on to confirm with anyone listening that she's alive. The priest uses it later on to read the book of Genesis, paralyzing all of the infected.]]
** [[spoiler: The grandfather's hearing aid.]]
** The multi-tool Atún accidentally drops down the sewer.

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* ChainsawGood
ChainsawGood: Not wanting to leave her husband behind when they get to the exit of the tunnels. Clara arms herself with a conveniently close by chainsaw stuck to a log and even uses it to rip up the lower part of her dress!
* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGun:
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The PA system. [[spoiler: Clara uses it early on to confirm with anyone listening that she's alive. The priest uses it later on to read the book of Genesis, paralyzing all of the infected.]]
** [[spoiler: The grandfather's hearing aid.aid, although this is a more negative example as it leads to the film's sudden DownerEnding.]]
** The multi-tool Atún accidentally drops down the sewer.sewer at the start of the outbreak, when Clara and Koldo finally reunite but are kept apart by a grate. She picks it up and it finally leads to the newly wed couple being together again.



* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Everybody at the wedding reception dies, except for the priest. Clara gets bitten, and when she becomes one of the infected, Koldo decides to let her bite him so they can die together. And then they both get shot by a platoon of soldiers.]]

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Everybody at the wedding reception dies, except for the priest. Clara gets bitten, and when she becomes one of the infected, Koldo decides to let her bite him so they can die together. And together and then they both get shot by a platoon of soldiers.]]



* FoundFootageFilms: Abandoned after the first twenty minutes, when Koldo smashes the camera.

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* FoundFootageFilms: Abandoned It starts off like this even with it appearing to be like a DVD for Clara and Koldo's wedding. Although it gets abandoned after the first twenty minutes, when Koldo smashes the camera.Atún's camera after Atún says he wants to film everything.



* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: On two separate occasions, it looks like the couple will be able to escape. Then you remember what franchise this is]].

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* HopeSpot: HopeSpot:
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[[spoiler: On two separate occasions, it looks like the couple will be able to escape. Then you remember what franchise this is]].
** At first a couple of survivors and some children managed to make it to a bus and take it to safety, [[spoiler:unfortunately the infected manage to break in and we noly hear the screams of the survivor's being overwhelmed]].



* InternalDeconstruction: To the previous two films' SocialMediaBeforeReason: Koldo gets enraged when the cameraman doesn't stops recording to help (this is something that also happened even all the way back on the first film, but Angela ordered the cameraman to continue) and smashes the camera as a result.

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* InternalDeconstruction: To the previous two films' SocialMediaBeforeReason: Koldo gets enraged when the cameraman Atún doesn't stops stop recording to help (this is something that also happened even all the way back on the first film, but Angela ordered the cameraman to continue) and smashes the camera as a result.



* LighterAndSofter: While the first two films were strict survival horror, ''REC 3'' added elements of romance drama due to Clara and Koldo's relationship and motivations. The film's use of traditional cinematography and the fact that the film actually had a musical score contributed to this trope. ''Genesis'' also features significantly more comedy than the previous two films, although it is still dark overall.

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* LighterAndSofter: While the first two films were strict survival horror, ''REC 3'' added elements of romance drama due to Clara and Koldo's relationship and motivations. The film's use of traditional cinematography and the fact that the film actually had a musical score contributed to this trope. ''Genesis'' also features significantly more comedy than the previous two films, although it is slightly downplayed as it is still dark overall.and very bleak overall with a [[spoiler: DownerEnding]].



* PregnantBadass: Clara.

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* PregnantBadass: Clara.At first Clara has a secret that she's been meaning to tell Koldo but never gets the chance too. However she finally reveals that she's pregnant over the PA system which serves as further motivation for them to reunite.
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* NonIndicativeName: While the subtitle ''Genesis'' makes you think it's an OriginStory for the series (as films with those titles regularly do), in this case it is that the passage of Literature/TheBible that the priest reads over the PA system to keep the zombies at bay is the Book of Genesis.

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* NonIndicativeName: While the subtitle ''Genesis'' makes you think it's an OriginStory for the series (as films with those titles regularly do), in this case it is that the passage of Literature/TheBible that the priest reads over the PA system to keep the zombies at bay is the Book of Genesis.Literature/BookOfGenesis.

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* TheVirus: While the doctor character compares the outbreak to rabies and the tape to influenza, the climax suggests the contagion has a supernatural origin.
** [[spoiler: The second film confirms it: the virus is actually the vehicle of a worm-like [[DemonicallyPossessed demonic entity]] which uses it to [[HiveMind control the infected]] and [[HiveQueen jump its mind from one to another]], and is able to talk with different voices in different bodies (an infected 40-year-old talking with the voice of the infected little girl is disturbing).]]
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Upon release, the first film was often summarized as "''Videogame/ResidentEvil'' in ''Series/AquiNoHayQuienViva'''s building." Other common comparisons are ''España Directo'' (a Spanish doc-style reality show of the time), ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' (because of the fast zombies and End of Times allusions), ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' (blood-eyed crazy infected), and ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' (found footage horror). ''[REC]2'' brought additional comparisons to ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'' (because of the FirstPersonShooter perspective and demon enemies) and ''Film/TheExorcist'' (because of the exorcism and puking infected scenes), and ''[REC]3'' to ''Franchise/EvilDead'' (because of the upped BlackComedy and over the top violence being PlayedForLaughs, including a SignatureScene using a chainsaw against zombies).

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* TheVirus: While the doctor character compares the outbreak to rabies and the tape to influenza, the climax suggests the contagion has a supernatural origin.
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origin. [[spoiler: The second film confirms it: the virus is actually the vehicle of a worm-like [[DemonicallyPossessed demonic entity]] which uses it to [[HiveMind control the infected]] and [[HiveQueen jump its mind from one to another]], and is able to talk with different voices in different bodies (an infected 40-year-old talking with the voice of the infected little girl is disturbing).]]
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Upon release, the first film was often summarized as "''Videogame/ResidentEvil'' in ''Series/AquiNoHayQuienViva'''s building." Other common comparisons are ''España Directo'' (a Spanish doc-style reality show of the time), ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' (because of the fast zombies and End of Times allusions), ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' (blood-eyed crazy infected), and ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' (found footage horror). ''[REC]2'' brought additional comparisons to ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'' (because of the FirstPersonShooter perspective and demon enemies) and ''Film/TheExorcist'' (because of the exorcism and puking infected scenes), and ''[REC]3'' to ''Franchise/EvilDead'' (because of the upped BlackComedy and over the top violence being PlayedForLaughs, including a SignatureScene using a chainsaw against zombies).
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* SocialMediaBeforeReason: "Keep recording, for your fucking mother!!!". Throughout two-and-one-act-of-the-third films, people are given to record the whole situation because they either believe (or are ordered to) keep a record of all the craziness that is going on. Obviously many characters are ''not'' happy about it.

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* SocialMediaBeforeReason: "Keep recording, for your fucking mother!!!". Throughout two-and-one-act-of-the-third films, people are given to record the whole situation because they either believe they should (or are ordered to) keep a record of all the craziness that is going on. Obviously many characters are ''not'' happy about it.
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: With the exception of two of the teenagers, everybody either dies or is infected/possessed.]]



* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: On two separate occasions, it looks like the couple will be able to escape. Then you remember [[KillEmAll what franchise this is]]]].

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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: On two separate occasions, it looks like the couple will be able to escape. Then you remember [[KillEmAll what franchise this is]]]].is]].
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*AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Tito and Mire are two brothers that spend most of their screening time arguing with each other. However, they are very protective of each other, with Tito often grabbing Mire by the hand while running away from the infected and Mire [[spoiler: tries to protect Tito when he gets infected.]]
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*BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Ángela spends most of the beginning bored out of her mind and wishing for something to happen so the program can get more exciting. Boy, did she get more than she could chew...
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*ItCanThink: This is what makes the infected so dangerous, as they are capable of forming plans and use their numbers to overwhelm the people they're trying to infect. [[spoiler:It also helps that their possessed nature can help them to mimick the voices of non-infected people to lure their prey.]]
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*FunnyBackgroundEvent: Many examples of this:
**A firefighter walks in naked while Pablo and Ángela are recording
**The old lady appears sweeping the ground during almost all interviews.
**You can see (and hear) César hitting on Pablo during the scene where Jennifer plays with the camera.
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* ActionDressRip: Done by Clara. ''[[UpToEleven With a chainsaw.]]''

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* ActionDressRip: Done by Clara. ''[[UpToEleven With ''With a chainsaw.]]''''

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