A husband and wife in a small Midwestern town find themselves battling for survival as their friends and family descend into madness in Overture Films' The Crazies, arriving in theaters February 26, 2010. 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), and starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Reegan, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson and Justin Welborn, The Crazies is written by Ray Wright (Pulse, Case 39) and Scott Kosar (The Amityville Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). What do you guys think of the footage? The DP work is pretty incredible (Maxime Alexandre did High Tension).
"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."
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I agree awesome trailer and I love the addition of Mad World in there. It's about damn time they decided to put that song in a zombie movie. It fits so perfectly.
Woah. This looks so much better than I ever would have expected. I fully expected this one to be an average, foregttable, uninspired movie that I would most likely ignore. I'm not sure why I even clicked through to the trailer. Bored I guess. Needless to say, this is now on the must-watch list.
Awesome stuff. The crazies is exactly the kind of movie that deserves a remake. the original is a good movie; albeit a flawed one with an excellent premise behind it. It looks like they really examined what worked with the original and are expanding upon it. Fingers crossed, with a little luck this one could actually fall into the 'better than the original' category.
Looks great! But, minus two points for the Mad World song at the end. Sorry, but that's just too embedded in Darko to be used in other films these days (or their trailers).
Yes that song I have heard it before. This looks good movie downside is sometimes when the trailer looks good the movie sucks because they put all the good parts in the trailer. I will check this one out it looks so much better then REC movie too.
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