Movie review: The Crazies



The movie starts out rough, with Sheriff David Dutton getting forced to kill a man, Roy, who seems to be intoxicated in some way.
David and his wife Judy, a doctor, begin to notice strange behavior around the town; people are slow to respond questions, stares blankly at nothing and repeat their answers. One night a local farmer, Bill, burns his wife and son alive.


David and his deputy, Russell, investigate a dead soldier in the woods, and finds out that a crashed plane has been leaking a toxin into the town's water supply. People who are infected become aggressive, killing and attacking other people.


The town's people gets captured by soldiers and taken to the high school, which works as a temporary military facility. People are getting checked for fevers, and an alert goes off, so she is taken away to be quarantined. She tries to explain to the soldiers that she is pregnant, and that is why she's having a fever, but the soldiers ignore and sedates her.


Judy wakes up, strapped to a gurney. The soldiers are fleeing the high school to get evacuated, as the high school's perimeter is breached by infected people. They leave Judy alone, in a room full of infected, David unable to find her and a man with a pitchfork coming closer…


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I went into the cinema without any expectations, and left with a lot to think about. It is definitely a horror movie, and it gave me a lot of good scares. And I'm also very into the whole "biological weapon conspiracy theories"-thing, which is a huge part of this movie.


It's a remake of a 1973-movie, and I’m currently trying to find a Danish onlinestore I can order it from.


If you're into horror movies, I would definitely recommend it. If you're not; don't see it. It's very gory, tough and most of all; scary as hell.

 

(5 stars)


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