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Paco Plaza
Writer 53 years old

Paco Plaza

Valencia, Spain

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.... Read full bio →

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8 titles
V/H/S/Halloween

V/H/S/Halloween

Alex Ross Perry, Paco Plaza 2025 1h 55m

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

Hermana Muerte

Hermana Muerte

Paco Plaza 2023 1h 31m

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

Verónica

Verónica

Paco Plaza 2017 1h 45m 3.0

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.

[REC]³ Génesis

[REC]³ Génesis

Paco Plaza 2012 1h 20m 5.0

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.

[Rec]²

[Rec]²

Paco Plaza, Jaume Balagueró 2009 1h 24m 6.7

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.

Quarantine

Quarantine

John Erick Dowdle 2008 1h 29m 5.8

A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.

[Rec]

[Rec]

Paco Plaza, Jaume Balagueró 2007 1h 18m 7.5

"REC" turns on a young TV reporter and her cameraman who cover the night shift at the local fire station. Receiving a call from an old lady trapped in her house, they reach her building to hear horrifying screams -- which begin a long nightmare and a uniquely dramatic TV report.

El segundo nombre

El segundo nombre

Paco Plaza 2002 1h 33m 5.0

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.

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