The Crazies

The Crazies Review

The Crazies Overview

In this terrifying glimpse into the “American Dream” gone wrong, an unexplainable phenomenon has taken over the citizens of Ogden Marsh. One by one the townsfolk are falling victim to an unknown toxin and are turning sadistically violent.  People who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives are now depraved, blood-thirsty killers. While Sheriff Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) and his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell), try to make sense of the escalating violence, the government uses deadly force to close off all access and won’t let anyone in or out – even those uninfected.  In this film that Pat Jankiewicz of Fangoria calls “disturbing,” an ordinary night becomes a horrifying struggle for the few remaining survivors as they do their best to get out of town alive.

The Crazies Specifications

This 2010 remake of a somewhat obscure 1973 George Romero picture injects a mysterious virus into the water supply of a small Iowa town, and the consequences are… well, you didn't expect the consequences to be positive, did you? The movie is called The Crazies, after all. So when local folk begin acting a mite peculiar, it just means they've gone to the well too often--literally. Borrowing the structure of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the remake gets off to a clumsy start, but as the noninfected rally around the sheriff (Timothy Olyphant) and his doctor wife (Radha Mitchell), the action becomes streamlined and reasonably inventive. Director Breck Eisner has a particular knack for finding ingenious ways of killing people (a knife through the hand becomes a useful tool for the sheriff in one turn-the-tables moment), and he's been wise enough to hire respectable actors for the top-lined duties; along with Olyphant and Mitchell, there's also Joe Anderson (Across the Universe) as a loyal, amped-up deputy. If the movie misses the tart social-context stuff that Romero does so well, it at least fills the bill when it comes to the chase-and-escape business of a contemporary horror picture. The spate of such 21st-century remakes of 1970s horror pictures misses the raw, raggedy unease of those low-budget projects, but if you're going to make a slick new update, The Crazies is the way to do it. --Robert Horton

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Film Review: The Crazies (2010)

CONCLUSION: Although laudable for its subtlety and seriousness, "The Crazies" is an unhappy and lifeless take on the zombie film is forgettable vanish.

The Good: You know the drill with the zombie movie: infected humans, turning people into zombie virus that go on a killing spree. This version has also led the military in a good effect. Director Breck Eisner, the original George A. Romero film with a subtlety and RemakeSeriously is commendable and surprising. This film tries and sometimes fails to create suspense through performance rather than Gore and definitely bad make-up. The first scene, where Sherriff Dutton (Olyphant) in front of a local man with a gun to a baseball game quite compelling and lays the groundwork for what is inherent in the use of subtlety and power. The zombies have a more realistic look, infected by the virus, rather than blood and gutsdripping from every orifice. The scenes of killing, although brutal, are thinner than normal and very effective. These scenes are probably the ones that are most difficult to observe not the zombies, but by the military to shoot down one and all in their own way, even the innocent people who were not infected with the virus. Actor Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell to do what they can with the material and are very watchable. Joe Anderson is the best role in the film as the faithfulDeputy Sheriff, who slowly turns on his colleagues, but eventually made the sacrifice himself to save her if he had been infected and learn. "The Crazy" is the approach tries to take the usual comparison worthy zombie movie.

The bad: Zombie movies often vary their condition and "crazy" is no exception. In this regard, we have all seen here before. However, this is not an excuse for not having fun with the material, but unfortunatelyall that is devoid of life with this film, to pardon the pun. There is no spark or energy, except for a few exciting moments here and there to really pull you into action. As a result, this film feels very mechanical and decided to non-creepy. The ending leaves little room for improvement, it's inevitable that many of these films do these days, opening the possibility of a sequel. "The Crazy" is to forget, which is a shame, because here and momentswhere you can make a better film, what we have seen since.

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