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Mood:
Bleak Rough Suspenseful Scary Tense
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On the Run Survival Chaos and Mayhem Experiment Gone Awry Isolation Plague Danger Deadly more...
Genres:
Horror Action Thriller
Place:
Iowa Kansas USA Small Town
Audience:
Boys' Night
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Critically Acclaimed
Style:
Gory
Based on:
Remake
Attitudes:
Serious Fantastic
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The Crazies, 2010

Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Danielle Panabaker

Directed by: Breck Eisner

Written by: Ray Wright

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 101 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:6.6

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The Crazies can be described as bleak, tense, and scary. The plot revolves around a plague, chaos and mayhem, and isolation. The main genres are horror, thriller, and action. In terms of style, The Crazies is gory. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It is set, at least in part, in a small town. The Crazies is located in Iowa and Kansas. It is a remake. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed. The Crazies is well suited for a boys' night. Note that it involves profanity and violent content.

Summary of The Crazies

Anarchy reigns when an unknown toxin turns the peaceful citizens of Ogden Marsh into bloodthirsty lunatics. In an effort to contain the spread of the infection, authorities blockade the town and use deadly force to keep anyone from getting in or out. Now trapped among killers, Sheriff Dutten (Timothy Olyphant) and his wife (Radha Mitchell) and two companions must band together to find a way out before madness and death overtake them.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	23 February 2010
Runtime:	101 min

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Timothy Olyphant

as David

Radha Mitchell

as Judy

Joe Anderson

as Russell

Danielle Panabaker

as Becca

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MAN, I Had this in my que before it was released, and kept moving it down in my list. thinking other movies were better. Halloween is tommorow, and we could'nt find anything scary, So now that The Crazies is instant we decide to click on the movie... Read and rate it

04.November.2010
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by: Erica
Erica rated this movie0/10

20.September.2010
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by: Kirk
Kirk rated this movie7/10Good

The original The Crazies did an excellent job of giving us an uncaring and befuddled government that understands what it did wrong, attempts to rectify it but cant stop tripping over its feet to get the job done. A government not smart enough to fix the problem, but strong enough to force you to watch them screw it up. In the remake we only get a government that for some reason is far too willing to bully citizens, a scientist (?) in a crashed car to fill in some plot details and a cold, watching eye in the sky to show that they have the means to do what they want. Early Romero was a master at exploring what normal people would do in extraordinary situations. These were people that you could identify with, normal people, and that made you care about them. A firefighter, a nurse, for example. These non heroes that have to do heroic thing in the name of survival. The remake gave us the town sheriff, a deputy and a doctor as our potential heroes...only, they already were heroes. But in the end - and this is where I think it went wrong - horror does much better when its socially and personally relevant; when it is an idea and people that we can identify with. Just like Invasion of the Body Snatchers explored our fear of communism, Night of the Living Dead poked at social changes, The Crazies pulls the Vietnam war to the home front. The remake of The Crazies just didnt have that relevance and, instead, relied on modern scare tactics to keep you interested. Blood, a bit of gore, bad guys coming at you from all angles and ever increasing dire situations. This seems to be the formula for horror these days and, in my opinion, is a bit long in the tooth. Oh, and (here be spoilers) one more thing: how we feel when we walk away from the film. In the original we have a feeling of pending global doom whereas the remake gave us what seems to be in every horror ending these days: hope with the possibility of a remake.

20.September.2010
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by: Kirk

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