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Name: The Crazies
Released: 2010-2-26
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson

The Crazies

R
1h 41m
2010

72%

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In a terrifying tale of the "American Dream" gone horribly wrong, residents of a picture-perfect Midwestern town begin to succumb to an uncontrollable urge for violence when a mysterious toxin in the water supply turns everyone exposed to it into mindless killers. Sheriff David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant); his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell); Becca (Danielle Panabaker), an assistant at the medical center; and Russell (Joe Anderson), Dutton's deputy and right-hand man, find themselves trapped in a once idyllic town they can no longer recognize. Unable to trust former neighbors and friends, deserted by the authorities and terrified of contracting the illness themselves, they are forced to band together in a nightmarish struggle for survival in this reinvention of the George Romero classic.

Director:

Breck Eisner

Producer:

George A. Romero, Michael Aguilar, Dean Georgaris, Rob Cowan

Writer:

Scott Kosar, Ray Wright

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

72%

Critics Consensus: Tense, nicely shot, and uncommonly intelligent, The Crazies is a horror remake that, unusually, works.

Reviews

The Wolfman Cometh

Patrick Cavanaugh

The aesthetic upgrade from the original makes this the rare instance in which a reboot is just as good, if not better, than the source material.

It's not the most original film but Timothy Olyphant held this down as the lead. It's a harrowing story that has a dark ending, which hurts your desire to rewatch this but it's still solid.

While this does have many beats that are similar to films in this genre, the leads were strong and there was some haunting imagery that makes this an interesting watch. The opening baseball scene is really effective.

One of those rare cases where the remake lives up to the original, if not exceeds it.

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Wonderfully Weird and Horrifying

Kristy Strouse

The Crazies is a visually attuned reimagining that doesn’t slack on lunacy or acting chops.

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