Normally you would say ‘oh, let’s locate that story in New York or whatever’ but the idea was to be realistic, and the most realistic thing for us and for Spanish audiences, typical neighbourhood in Barcelona.”
“The credibility in the way we were shooting, the credibility in the acting of the actors, the credibility in the place, the location. “Yeah, the most important thing for us was credibility,” Jaume adds. The people normal people being confronted to an exceptional situation.” It’s happening in your house, in your place, in a building that is so typical of Barcelona. “It’s not Resident Evil where there is a high tech laboratory. So we wanted to have intense moments, but we wanted to keep it very very real. Like this haunted house you get in a fair. We wanted the film to be scary and to have really good jump scares because, for us, it was part video game, part roller coaster. People you can recognise Chinese immigrants, the old couple… people that really live in my building!” Paco says. The pair wanted to make the film seem as real as possible, hiring actors who could put across that real-life feeling: “ casting the neighbours of the building, we wanted them to be real neighbours.
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The idea to mix these opposite concepts – the real live report style of shooting with a zombie movie – we found it really interesting and exciting and we decided to go in!” “Not the stories we are used to seeing on TV, but a zombie movie with blood and be completely fantastic.
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The TV crew in are following the fire department on what seems like a routine call…“I remember the idea was to use this narrative of a TV report to explain the story,” Jaume Balagueró adds. Unfortunately, the situation is anything but routine as a deadly virus spreads among the building’s occupants, turning them into bloodthirsty cannibals escape is impossible as the government has surrounded the building to prevent the virus from spreading beyond it, and the pair continue to record the events that unfold inside, of which the film itself is the final result. One fateful night, Ángela and Pablo follow the firefighters on what seems to be a routine call out to an apartment building in Barcelona. follows news reporter Ángela (played by Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman, the never seen but always-constant Pablo (Pablo Rosso) who are making a ‘real-life’ TV show about the fire department. The pair also had a great idea for their ‘quick zombie film’. I think it came from trying to get back that feeling of freedom.” I think that was the spark that blew our minds to say: ‘Okay, let’s do a zombie film. “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. “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 came to be unleashed on viewers back in 2007.
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