Reviews of The Crazies 1973
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I met Lynn Lowry last night at the theatre I work at, so I felt like popping this old favorite of mine in.
She plays Kathy, a spacy teenage girl who is one of five civilians attempting to elude gas-masked Army men quarantining the small town of Evans City, Pa., after a contagious bacteriological weapon (which causes those infected to go incurably insane) accidentally makes its way into the water supply. It isn't the lead role, but it is memorable…
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Well, I laughed a lot, so that's one star.
Another one for all the ugly guys whose faces reminded me of old Bosch paintings. Ugly guys are much more interesting to look at than pretty boys (sorry Goslingfrancodepp).Half a star for the color of the hilarious fake blood.
This movie could have easily been 20 minutes shorter with better editing and I wanted more crazies and less soldiers.
MOAR CRAZIES!
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'The Crazies' is a low budget outbreak movie directed by George Romero, creator of seminal zombie classics 'Night of the Living Dead' and its thundering sequel 'Dawn of the Dead'.
Set in a small American town that has come under siege by a dangerous toxin known as Trixe. This hazardous chemical has the adverse effect of turning normal people into uncaring, homicidal lunatics, who murder at will. As the situation worsens, the military tries incompetently to protect the town and…
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Romero's social consciousness shows through his interest in the ramifications of the disease greatly outweighing the actual depiction of it onscreen. What's shown is that an invisible evil spreads less through disease but more through the systems/hierarchies it creates. On one hand is the government; who through sheer confusion with how to deal with the epidemic resort to violence, and thus spurs our other unit of regular citizens, who fall apart through their own power struggle.
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Originally a box-office disappointment at the time of its release, The Crazies in recent years finally began to get some of the respect it deserves. A violent, emotional, deeply personal outcry against the senselessness of the Vietnam War and other atrocities, it deals with horrors that seem all too possible.
The setting is Evans City, Pennsylvania, where a governmentally-developed chemical known as "Trixie" has contaminated the water supply and turned citizens into unbalanced nuts. Soon the military invades the town…
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Having never seen a non-zombie George A Romero film I approached The Crazies with open arms, I had heard it was an interesting film with some nice ideas. However I think it is perhaps a film more of its time as some of the big messages either seemed lost on me or just a little outdated.
That's not to say the film doesn't contain very enjoyable moments. With acting that is sometimes suspect it's entertaining to see what will happen…
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This is the 1973 film written and directed by George A Romero and is the story of a small town that becomes contaminated by a man made virus and the story of the army who try to contain and quarantine the town and some of the town inhabitants. You follow Judy and David and David's friend from the fire service Clank. This film was remade in 2010 and I saw that before watching the original, I have to say that…
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Maybe I watched it way too late (over 35 years too late!). Maybe I need another viewing.
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What on earth.
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Director George Romero creates a companion piece to his zombie movies — a solid apocalyptic thriller set in Evans City, Pa., where the U.S. government releases (then attempts to contain) a biological chemical that produces insanity in the townspeople.