The Crazies (Romero, 1973)

[madali]

The Crazies (George A. Romero, 1973)

While not actually about zombies, "The Crazies" does feel like it is familiar ground for my buddy George Romero. He, as of now, has directed 6 different zombie films, and "The Crazies" is one of his earlier work, before he fully established himself as The Zombie King.

In it, a small town is infected with a disease that makes them go crazy. The army quarantines the town, and a bunch of characters are on the run. Slowly, even the main characters get infected. All zombie film aspects that we see repeated it various films. All good, except the film is not really that good. The army is made to look like evil dudes, but I see their point. Something has gone wrong and they have to quarantine the town. And people on the run, being in danger of the disease and infected others, is not something I can get behind and support. Go to the army, let them quarantine you.

And we barely see much of the infected. I like the infected being barely human, so we can enjoy them  being killed. But the infected being men and women who are just crazy, which results in people being killed sometimes, but not all the time, then I can't support them being killed either. Basically, there is no one I can get really behind, except I want the army to do their job well. How fun can a movie be when all you are support is Efficiency?

2/5

[fizz]

The remake was pretty good. It took its time to introduce the people of the town and the handful of characters who would carry the film. Always a good idea if you want high stakes in your proceedings.

[madali]

I mainly watched it so I could watch the remake, to be honest. Horror is one of the rare genre that a lot of times remakes build on the original.

[fizz]

I mainly watched it so I could watch the remake, to be honest. Horror is one of the rare genre that a lot of times remakes build on the original.

Horror (to me) is also perhaps the only genre where the fact that its a remake probably doesn't even matter (or sometimes even register), because of how disposable the entire genre is as a whole.

Man, I've used the word genre too many times today.