The Crazies

2010

Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57% · 156 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 136600 136.6K

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Plot summary

Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.

Director

Breck Eisner Photo
Breck Eisner

Top cast

Chet Grissom Photo
Chet Grissom as Kevin Miller
Justin Miles Photo
Justin Miles as Scotty McGregor
Lisa K. Wyatt Photo
Lisa K. Wyatt as Peggy Hamill
Timothy Olyphant Photo
Timothy Olyphant as David
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924.65 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
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1.86 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
NR
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4.54 GB
3840*2160
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by misterwhack 7 / 10

Deputy Bada$$

The sheriff is cool but I would roll with the Deputy. Shoot 1st and ask questions never! To say I am watching this 13 years later and loving it so far is amazing. I cant get halfway through most newer movies these days. I know how most of these movies end but there is some hope for this to be different. The action is top notch and even the small parts are well acted out. Location gives you many landscapes especially it bein a small town movie. I will be checking for more movies by this director. The attention to detail makes it look like a bigger budget movie. Could have given it a higher score but its like zombie movies sort of have a 7 ish cap for me.
Reviewed by bowmanblue 7 / 10

You don't have to be crazy to watch this (but it helps)

'The Crazies' (2010) is a remake of zombie-maestro George A Romero's 'other' film from the seventies. Most people only know him in connection with his Night/Dawn/Day/Land quadrology, but he also made The Crazies back in the early seventies. It was basically a zombie film by another name; instead of the undead you had people infected (in the non 28 Days Later kind of way) with a contamination which basically meant they go nuts (or crazy, basically).If you've seen the other remake of George A Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead (2004)' then you should kind of know the 'look and feel' of the Crazies' remake. It sort of feels like a compendium piece to Dawn's remake, even down to having a Johnny Cash song over the opening credits.We have a place crashing a toxic chemical which gets in a small American town's water supply, making everyone start killing each other. Naturally the Government is on hand to generally mess things up for the hapless townsfolk who have already started to murder each other in various grisly ways.The story follows the sheriff, his doctor wife, his deputy and another girl as they desperately try to flee the town while being pursued by nut-jobs, the government and the paranoia that one or more of them may well be infected.It's not the most mind-blowing of premises, but it does the job. It's not original enough to really stand out. I suppose the most different aspect to it is that the 'infected' or 'non-zombies' (or whatever you want to call them) do still retain enough intelligence to generally act a little difference to your average undead menace (you don't get too many zombies driving cars and firing shotguns at our heroes!).If you're generally into your zombie movies then this one will do the job. It has enough of a budget to raise it above the bucketload of B-movies who are using the 'zombie craze' to sell itself and the cast, although nothing out of the ordinary, do enough to make us root for them.Nothing too memorable, but nothing too awful and will certainly entertain any horror fan for an hour and a half.
Reviewed by kannibalcorpsegrinder 7 / 10

Far better than the original

When residents of a small-town begin attacking each other, the survivors are lead away from the area, but when they learn of others still trapped in the town they head back to rescue them before they fall victim to the bloodthirsty creatures.This was a hard one to get a handle on as there's stuff to love and dislike here. Some of the stuff works, from the build-up in the beginning with the family being stalked in the house before it being set on fire to the gory ambush in the morgue, there's some nice action scenes early on that create a pretty creepy air especially when combined with the investigation angle. The assault on the camp as well as the action in the burned-out ruins of the town are rather nice and certainly big, fun action scenes that provide some nice blood and gore, and it gets a lot of fun out of an abbreviated ambush in a car-wash and a truck- stop encounter, but the fact remains that there's a lot of problems here. The biggest flaw is that the middle segments, after a strong opening, just drain the energy from the film as it continually repeats the tender family relationship that never once feels threatened or in danger, despite attempts to force the issue but it knowingly won't and just renders the whole thing pointless. Also, by dropping the number of encounters down it leaves the relentless pacing of the first half incredibly slowed down and dull afterward, drawing out the film a little too long in this section. Another big serious flaw is the complete and total lack of explanations for the toxin dropped in the town, which is a real mystery on all fronts in how it works, its' purpose and wherever the toxin came from. This is a major flaw which really hampers the film along with its other flaws as otherwise, this is a decent effort.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and children-in-jeopardy.
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