Synopsis
Fear thy neighbor.
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Directed by Breck Eisner
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
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about 30 min into the situation i would have been like “guys, should we all just kill ourselves?”
Since I can remember right-wing media has been selling this mythology that one day the government will no longer be your friend, that one day they will come to your town, give you all bar codes, load you up into trailers and put you in FEMA camps guarded by black helicopters, awaiting execution or globalist reptiloid experimentation so it is imperative that you convert part of your home to a lockdown safe area readied for doomsday and stocked with weapons and MRE's to wait out the armies of the Clinton/Antichrist/Obama/Reptiloids/Hilary Loyalists and/or fight them in glorious battle until the Rapture or the Retaking. This is a two-forked fantasy. The other path is Dominionist Seizure of the Federal Government Apparatus and…
Rotten Tomatoes: 71%
Metacritic Metascore: 55
IMDB: 6.5
76/100
Release Date: 26 February 2010
Distributor: Participant Media
Budget: $20M
Worldwide Gross: $54.8M
David Dutton: "Do you wanna give up? You wanna sit here and die, tell me, and I will sit here and die with you."
'The Crazies' is a reinvention of George Romero's little-seen 1973 original. If Romero had had this kind of budget for his original version, I have no doubt it would have been far superior to its remake, but as of now, the remake stands tall. The plot is beyond simple: a biological agent gets into the water supply of a small town in Iowa called Ogden Marsh and turns the inhabitants into homicidal…
One of the very few remakes that just might be better than the original movie? I might get some serious crap for that, but I’m sorry...I said what I said and I mean it. This is a solid horror movie that does a fantastic job of blending jump scares with genuine dread and atmosphere.
It also doesn’t hurt that the cast is fucking phenomenal. Joe Alexander is one of the most underrated actors out there today. Radha Mitchell out here adding another entry to her Scream Queen application list and Timothy Olyphant is a fucking MEAL. Please do not put him in the snack box because he is so much more than that. A good actor and someone who could tear me apart any day of the week. Yes, my husband is fully aware of the things I say here.
It’s a shame we never got a sequel to this super fun time.
Despite treading familiar territory, THE CRAZIES is an impressively executed, tense, eerie and engaging zombie flick. Definitely the best Romero remake and improves on the original but it removes all the sociopolitical subtext which was in original.
“This town is dead. And it’s never coming back.”
It ain’t what Romero would make, but it sure does feel like something Romero would respect. Feels just as tense, hopeless, and inescapable as the original, only now with some zombies popping up here and there to remind you that the unfeeling decay and erasure of middle America can be just as scary as it is sad. I remember seeing this years ago and thinking “damn, this Dawn of the Dead ripoff is really slow”, but silly me, because I know better now that bleakness was always the name of Georgey boy’s game over pure horror.
“Fuck you for what you did.”
The cruel incompetence of our uncaring government is ALWAYS…