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The Crazies

#1 Post by andrews » Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:37 pm

A husband and wife in a small Midwestern town find themselves battling for survival as their friends and family descend into madness in The Crazies. A mysterious toxin in the water supply turns everyone exposed to it into mindless killers and the authorities leave the uninfected to their certain doom in this terrifying reinvention of the George Romero horror classic. Directed by Breck Eisner (Sahara), The Crazies is written by Ray Wright (Pulse, Case 39) and Scott Kosar (The Amityville Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). The American Dream goes horribly wrong when the residents of this picture-perfect town begin to succumb to an uncontrollable urge for violence and the horrific bloodshed escalates into anarchy. In an attempt to contain the epidemic, the military uses deadly force to close off access into or out of town, abandoning the few healthy citizens to the growing mayhem as depraved killers lurk in the shadows. 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.


Couple of trailers on this site: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/10/crazies-trailer/
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#2 Post by opas » Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:59 pm

Think they showed the trailer for this before Law Abiding Citizen at Surrey Quays tonight - didn't think it looked too good.
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#3 Post by Beate » Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:01 pm

Yeah, we had some kind of weird trailer beforehand but I was so utterly uninterested in it that I didn't manage to catch the name of the film. Might have well been it.
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#4 Post by 1978 » Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:07 pm

Timothy Olyphant was excellent in A Perfect Getaway.

This one looks like it could have potential.
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#5 Post by opas » Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:30 pm

I like Timothy Olyphant from Damages but honestly that trailer we saw at the cinema looked weak.
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#6 Post by AnneJ » Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:34 pm

I saw this trailer last night at Surrey Quays, I thought it looked awful!!!
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#7 Post by elmqueen » Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:52 pm

I haven't seen the trailor yet but i am a fan of Timothy Olyphant so i will probably end up watching it.
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#8 Post by tracy3108 » Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:22 pm

saw the trailer for this before law abinding citizen and wild horses could not drag me to see this... :noo:
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#9 Post by andrews » Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:45 am

tracy3108 wrote:saw the trailer for this before law abinding citizen and wild horses could not drag me to see this... :noo:

Nor me Tracy, not even if it is free!! :D However, there may be members on the site who enjoy this sort of film.....
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Re: The Crazies

#10 Post by superhero » Fri Feb 26, 2010 7:02 pm

I am surprised lovefilm is doing a comp for this film when it's out in cinemas already!
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