The US release date was 3 August 2012 via On Demand services with a 7 September 2012 theatrical release date that followed. REC 3: Génesis was released on 30 March 2012 in Spain. A teaser trailer premiered in September, while a theatrical trailer was released in December. The shooting lasted for seven weeks in Barcelona. The film began with the shooting on 4 April 2011 and ended on. In their final moments, Clara and Koldo hold each other's hands as they die of their wounds. Clara and Koldo share a final kiss before Clara, now fully turned, bites his tongue off and then turns to attack the armed men, who shoot both of them down. The attempt to stop Clara's infection fails, and she begins to show the first signs of infection Koldo takes her outside where the police and a GEO team tell him to let her go. Koldo cuts Clara's arm just below the elbow to stop the infection, and they arrive at the estate's exit, where they discover that the authorities have quarantined the area. Clara and Koldo go out into the garden, but Clara is bitten by her infected grandfather, whose deafness renders him immune to the prayer. Clara finds Koldo in the kitchen and both are surrounded by a horde of infected, which are suddenly paralyzed by the voice of the priest reciting scripture over the P.A. Koldo enters the kitchen to find a dead Atun, having slit his wrists to prevent infection, and killing the Vet with a kitchen tool. Clara and Rafa flee through a tunnel, but Clara turns around when she hears a song played by Koldo in the ballroom.Ĭlara, followed by Rafa, takes a chainsaw and fights her way through the infected, but Rafa is bitten and Clara is forced to kill him. John shoots the mother before he himself is bitten. Natalie is bitten and Clara faces her infected mother. Clara, Natalie and Rafa meet another survivor, children's entertainer "Sponge John". Meanwhile, Koldo arrives at the surveillance room and witnesses the massacre of Adrian, Tita, his grandmother, and others as they get cornered and eaten by the infected. Clara, Rafa and Natalie flee while the priest immobilizes the infected by reciting a prayer. Spotted by the infected, they escape and find Rafa, a friend of the couple, and Natalie, Clara's French friend who had retired to a room for sexual intercourse without realizing the situation. system, Koldo hears Clara say that she is safe as well as pregnant, and he decides to find her.Ĭlara and the wedding priest have found refuge in the video surveillance room and are helplessly watching the carnage unfold. The group escapes and joins other survivors within a chapel, which the infected cannot enter. The vehicle's sirens are triggered and alert the infected. After killing her, they try to contact the police, but Royalties is devoured by the now-infected policeman. Outside, the group finds a police vehicle and a guest eating the policeman's flesh.
They escape through the air-conditioning ducts, apart from Atun due to his size. Koldo finds refuge in the kitchen with his cousin Adrián, Clara's sister Tita, the wedding photographer Atun and a copyright inspector nicknamed "Royalties". Clara and Koldo are separated amidst the chaos. In a few moments, an uncontrollable wave of violence sweeps over the party as an increasing number of guests are infected as a result of bites. That evening, a veterinarian recently bitten by a dog develops abnormal behavior and becomes aggressive. Koldo and Clara are about to celebrate their wedding day and have gathered their friends and family in a sumptuous country house for the occasion. It was followed by a fourth installment, Rec 4: Apocalypse, in October 2014. The film begins in the series' trademark found footage format but switches to traditional cinematography early on.
Sony Entertainment released the DVD on 6 November 2012.
In the U.S., it was released via video on demand on 3 August and was released theatrically on 7 September 2012 in select cities. The world premiere took place in Paris at the Grand Rex on 7 March, followed by midnight screenings at the South By Southwest Film Festival on 9 March. with more international premiere dates that followed. It was released in cinemas in Spain on 30 March 2012. It is a parallel sequel to the first two films, taking place before, during and after the films, following a newlywed husband and wife who struggle to reunite with each other after the zombie plague interrupts their wedding party and infects their families. This film is the third installment of the REC series. REC 3: Genesis (stylised as ³: Génesis) is a 2012 Spanish action horror film directed by Paco Plaza.