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So, the movie follows the sheriff of a small town in Iowa, named David, and his wife Judy, and co-worker and friend Russell, as they slowly start to notice the town beginning to become contaminated with a strange disease. People become uncontrollable, wandering around and killing people. They mostly kill everyone who they once knew, since it is a small town, killing friends, family, and neighbors. It’s pretty terrifying to think. As time goes on, the town starts to get еще and еще crazy, to where the government starts to execute everyone in the city, including those who aren’t infected. So, the survivors of the film have to avoid both the military and their powerful weaponry, and the mass numbers of Crazies there are. So, by that logic, it’s clear to see just how screwed are main cast of survivors are. The feeling of dread between these characters, I find to be very well done. Their not able to get help from anyone, even from the very people who are supposed to protect the country, and have little chance of survival. It’s like Dead Rising, only without zombies, and еще crazed individuals. Oh, and speaking of which...
I Любовь the Crazies in this movie. They’re like zombies, but way smarter. They can communicate, and behave like normal humans, but are able to gather together in huge groups and kill others who are not infected. Whenever these things come on screen, their either cool to look at или are so terrifying, that you’d just lie down and cry whenever they came on screen, which is a good thing. These things are so well done, and yet they look pretty human, despite them having all that makeup on, which, let me just say, took THREE HOURS each день for the actors to put on. And дана that there were quite a few actors with that kind of makeup on, it’s easy to say that the designs of the Crazies faces were quite time consuming. But, they were effective, and worked in the favor of the creators in the end, because these Crazies are just so good. It shows just how well the budget for this film is, especially when Ты compare it to the original 1973 version, which just used some “blood”. This movie has blood, gore, and some of the best infected Дизайн I’ve seen. And to think they were all created after (Spoilers) the government poisoned the water supply, by crashing a plane into the lake, releasing a virus known as Trixie (I knew that blue horse would kill us all one day).
Ты know what my Избранное scene, and probably everyone’s Избранное scene in this movie was. The hospital scene, where Judy is strapped to a table, with others who failed to to get saved by the Government when evacuating survivors (Also spoilers, the government kills those who evacuated anyway), and is stuck in there, as Crazies break through the defenses and take over the area (Also, for a small town, there sure are a lot of people). After which, one of the Crazies walks through the halls of the room, dragging a pitchfork slowly on the ground, and walks in, where he begins stabbing everyone. Usually, I’m not one to be a Фан of gore. Yes, I praise it if the gore effects look nice. But when using it as horror, I just roll my eyes. It’s the секунда most overused trope of scaring people since jumpscares. However, unlike jumpscares, where I’ve only found two instances that were used well, I’ve seen gore have probably six when it was used well. This movie is one of them. While the gore is creepy, I find the feeling of this one Crazy slowly moving across the room, picking off defenseless individuals one by one, without any sound but the hard breathing of some of the survivors. That feeling of dread. I Любовь that feeling. And it’s so perfectly used here, it scared by 11 год old self almost to death. It’s so good, they used the scene for the cover of the DVD. That shows how good it is.
Of course, I can’t keep talking about how great the Crazies are (Even though I could go on for hours about why their amazing), The characters are amazing too. еще specifically Russell. He may just seem like a typical survivor that is just made to be killed off, but I find him way еще interesting than David или Judy. Throughout the movie, Ты see him as being this calm and understanding guy. However, as the movie goes on, things start to get worse for him. After David gets stabbed through the hand and almost killed by two of the Crazies, Russell walks in and shoots them, but doesn’t stop until the gun runs out of ammo. This may seem normal, but trust me, it’s very important later on. When David, Judy, and Russell run into a government official in a car, they hijack it and ask him what’s going on. It turns out (Spoilers) the plane was from the government, and was carrying a virus that turned people into Crazies. The plane was on it’s way to Texas to be destroyed, when the plane crashed into the town water supply, releasing it to the townspeople. (It’s a good thing Ohio water tastes like piss, so I don’t ever have to worry about that if it happens) Anyway, after hearing this, Russell kills the official and threatens to do the same to David and Judy. As it turns out, Russell has been infected, and is starting to turn. So, instead of letting himself be turned, and already know he’s a dead man, he sacrifices himself by distracting the government and getting shot so David and Judy can escape the city. Yeah, he was an asshole, but an asshole for a good reason.
The Crazies is probably one of my Избранное horror movie remakes ever. It’s right up there with the remakes of The Thing, The Fly, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The movie was a huge success, being the third highest grossing film of May 2010, right behind Фильмы Cop Out, and… затвор, затвора Island? What the hell is that? The movie was successful enough to get an iPhone game, a four issue comic book series, and there were rumors of a sequel, called The Even Crazier, but the studio gave little damn about this film, and decided to just not make it. Damn. If George A. Romero thought would be a good idea to make a sequel, than I think it would be too. Of course I would, I Любовь this movie, even though most people probably didn’t. Oh well, I guess that this movie will just have to satisfy us until Hollywood decides to remake this one in a few years, and it will probably suck hard. Take care
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