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Movie Review: The Crazies(2010)

Directed by Breck Eisner
Starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson.
Rated R
Release date: February 26, 2010

When I was first told about The Crazies, I thought it was a remake of the 1973 film by George A. Romero. But this movie I doubt is ever been as much fun. The film starts with a military plane carrying a biological weapon crashing in a town named Iowa. The people get infected by the biological weapon and hence they make a run for their lives.

The Crazies isn’t movie about zombies but somehow it more or less tends to be a zombie movie. The only difference is that here there is no faceless guy killing people, instead it is your own friends, relatives and others you know infected by the biological weapon causing them to act out of their minds. Such a kind of tragedy the level of emotion built into this zombie (and zombie-like)movie is heart taking. Well here there are no bad guys. Your relatives are the one who threaten you, try to kill them, etc etc. No love lost at the end, as usual. The infected could very well be your wife, friends or children. The survival aspect is that you will have to kill someof them to stop them from killing you, eating your brains, chewing your face off or lighting you on fire.

Good horror movies always relate well with their time period. Romero knows this. He has mixed horror with elements of social commentary. The Crazies is well paced and has earnedrespect of its predecessor. Rather than reinventing the genre, he has hit all the right note all at once. Not bad from the guy who made Sahara.