Paco Plaza

Director

August 2, 1973 (52 years)

Valencia, Spain

Biography

Paco Plaza is a critically acclaimed Spanish film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for co-creating the influential [REC] franchise, which debuted in 2007 and helped redefine found-footage horror with its intense, immersive style and claustrophobic suspense. Plaza directed and co-wrote the original [REC] alongside Jaume Balagueró and continued to shape the series through [REC] 2 and the solo installment [REC] 3: Genesis, earning international recognition and numerous awards. Plaza…

Filmography

7.2

[REC]

A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

6.8

The Vault

Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a way into one of the most secure and guarded places on the planet.

6.6

[REC]²

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

6.2

Veronica

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

5.9

The Grandmother

Susana leaves her life in Paris, where she works as a model, and returns to Madrid to take care of her grandmother Pilar.

5.3

[REC]³ Genesis

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

6.2

V/H/S/Halloween

A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.

5.3

Stories to Stay Awake

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6.3

Fate

Taxi driver David becomes the chauffeur for a famous bullfighter known as El Maestro, who is attempting a comeback after years away from the ring. El Maestro's perspective changes, and he starts seeing David as a good luck charm.

6.0

Sister Death

Spain, 1949. Narcisa, a novice, arrives at an old convent, converted into a girls' school, to work as a teacher.

6.7

Eye for an Eye

Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the residence, Mario tries to make Antonio feel at home. Now, Padín's two sons, Kike and Toño, are in charge of the family business. The failure of an operation will put Kike in jail and cause them to owe a large debt to a Colombian supplier. Toño will turn to the nurse to try to convince his father to assume the debt. But Mario has his own plans.

5.1

Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt

A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara (Elsa Pataky) falls in love with travelling vendor Manuel Romasanta, she is at first besotted with him - but soon begins to be suspicious of him. What has happened to her sister, who - after being escorted by Romasanta to the city - seems to have disappeared forever.

6.3

A Christmas Tale

Cubelles, Tarragona, Spain, Christmas 1985. Five friends make an unexpected discovery in the forest: a woman disguised as Santa Claus trapped in a deep hole dug in the middle of nowhere.

5.6

Second Name

After the suicide of her beloved father, the biologist Daniella Logan visits her catatonic mother in a mental institution to tell the tragic event and her mother calls her "Josephine". Daniella goes to the cemetery and finds that her father's grave had been opened and his corpse was profaned. She decides to investigate, and receives a message of a diabetic priest, Father Elias, who tells her about an ancient fanatic religious sect of followers of Abraham that kills the first child. Later, she meets a weird man, Toby Harris, who claims to be his legitimate father. Daniella continues seeking the truth about her origins and discloses very dark secrets about her family and friends.

3.9

OT: The Movie

Focuses on the life of the singers from the first series of the Spanish reality TV talent show "Operación Triunfo" during the tour they made throughout Spain.

5.7

Abuelitos

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1.0

Small Gauge Trauma

Hand-picked by Fantasias Mitch Davis, SMALL GAUGE TRAUMA is an extraordinary collection of 13 award-winning shorts from 8 countries. It represents some of the strongest and most eccentric highlights from the festivals trailblazing history with the form and is a veritable must-have for lovers of the unusual, aficionados of the fantastic and anyone with an interest in world cinema.

5.0

Bunbury 3D

Canal + and Vértice 360 performed on April 16 and 17, the first 3D recording of a live concert in Spain, the protagonist was the Aragonese Enrique Bunbury as part of his "The Consequences" tour. He directed Paco Plaza, director of [REC].

5.7

Ultraviolet

Lola, an art restorer, has to work through the night to reveal a painting hidden beneath another painting. Her obsession with the task and her squandering of energy will bring her more than she bargained for.

N/A

The Same

Horror short