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- 2010
- R
- Overture Films
- 1 h 41 m
- 2010
- R
- Overture Films
- 1 h 41 m
Summary A husband and wife in a small Midwestern town find themselves battling for survival as their friends and family descend into madness in The Crazies. A mysterious toxin in the water supply turns everyone exposed to it into mindless killers and the authorities leave the uninfected to their certain doom in this terrifying reinvention of the...
Directed By: Breck Eisner
Written By: Scott Kosar, Ray Wright, George A. Romero
- 2010
- R
- Overture Films
- 1 h 41 m
- 2010
- R
- Overture Films
- 1 h 41 m
The Crazies
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6.8
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Summary A husband and wife in a small Midwestern town find themselves battling for survival as their friends and family descend into madness in The Crazies. A mysterious toxin in the water supply turns everyone exposed to it into mindless killers and the authorities leave the uninfected to their certain doom in this terrifying reinvention of the...
Directed By: Breck Eisner
Written By: Scott Kosar, Ray Wright, George A. Romero
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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48% Positive
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15 Reviews
42% Mixed
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13 Reviews
10% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
56
48% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
42% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
10% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
I greatly prefer this cleverly sustained and efficiently relentless remake to the '73 edition. It is lean and simple.
It lacks the fevered sincerity (and the political timeliness) of Romero's original, but it's tightly scripted, cleverly cast, consistently scary, occasionally funny--everything you could ask from a well-made and completely unnecessary remake.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 152 User Ratings
6.8
59% Positive
90 Ratings
90 Ratings
35% Mixed
53 Ratings
53 Ratings
6% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 152 User Ratings
6.8
59% Positive
90 Ratings
90 Ratings
35% Mixed
53 Ratings
53 Ratings
6% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
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While it loses the charm of Romero’s low-budget clunkiness, it is in all other regards superior. Unfortunately, it’s not better than “28 Days Later...,” which is close enough to count as an unofficial remake.
Unlike Romero’s film, what’s missing is a trenchant sense of connection to our historical moment.
Poor distribution doomed the original movie, though Romero has stuck around long enough to serve as executive producer of this respectable update by Breck Eisner.
The Crazies only ever amounts to genre-regimented madness.
Has warmed-over chills and a muddled, zombie-like execution.
A solid remake with a strong cast and premise, with plenty of action and suspenseful moments throughout!
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Surprising solid. Definitely a few too many "convenient" moments, but that's common for horror films. Overall, I really liked this one. I definitely recommend it!
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For what It's worth, it must be hard to make a zombie-esque film as they've been done like dinner. Overcooked and all! Did 'The Crazies' feature characteristic, horror film cliches? Why yes, it did. Truthfully it would be hard not too given the genre is overstuffed with these type of movies. However the finished product (in truth) turned out to be a lot more fresh and original than most living dead features these days. Not too shabby for a remake. As long as you're not expecting to bare witness to a Academy award-winning screenplay you'll be fine.
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I just realized, after some reading, that this film is a remake of another film, already forgotten, from the Seventies. I will not be able to compare them, I have never seen him, but I will see. What I can say, surely, is that this film did not enchant me and I expected something more. The film is good enough to be worth it, but I don't know if I would be interested in seeing it a second time. I don't think it justifies it.
All the action takes place in a small village in the North American Midwest, where a mysterious virus is causing a terrible contagious disease that spreads through the air and makes people go crazy and start behaving like psychopaths and murdering other people just because. The film does not enter into big rounds, nor does it present much of the situation: like the inhabitants of that place, we too are surprised and do not know exactly what is happening. From here, the film follows the attempts of the local sheriff and his assistant to leave the city without being arrested or even killed by the army, which invades the region.
The film is not bad, but its loaded with clichés and uninspired scenes without originality, as if the director, Breck Eisner, had no confidence or interest in what he was doing and decided to just imitate "The Walking Dead" and other similar material. In addition, this film has a mostly average or mediocre cast, which neither shines nor adds anything truly good to the film. The exceptions are Timothy Olyphant and Joe Anderson, who gave life to the sheriff and his assistant in a competent and very committed way, where they would have surely achieved a better result with better material.
At a technical level, its a film that fulfills what it promises: it has good cinematography and the sets and costumes are realistic and quite pleasant, but these are features that we could almost demand. The film keeps a pleasant pace, the visual, special and sound effects are very good and realistic. What I think was quite exaggerated was the creation of a whole ending so absolutely cataclysmic that it becomes far-fetched, like a parody. Finally, a word for the good soundtrack, which fulfills its role well.
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I pretty much like the actors but omg what's the point remaking an old movie if you cut everything out. A quarantine, military shooting civilians.. that maybe was bold and fresh in 1970,:not anymore. The old one was pretty crappy but still a Romero, had a whole lot of ideas and passion. The craziness creeping, chaos. military and civilians shooting each other.. The pregnant lady was infected, then shot by civilians who mistook them for military. The immune main character was put with the infected without being tested, the doctor who found a cure was mistaken for a civilian and dies by accident, in the end the virus spreads. I also remember some weird scenes, a guy being shot in the head that caresses a tree before dying, or the main character piling up some bricks to hide his wife in plain sight on a construction site. Where tf is all that...
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Production Company
Overture Films,
Participant,
Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ,
Penn Station Entertainment,
Polyphony Digital
Release Date Feb 26, 2010
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Fear Thy Neighbor
Awards
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 3 Nominations
Scream Awards
• 2 Nominations
Fright Meter Awards
• 2 Nominations
