''The Crazies'' is a 2010 American
horror film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.
Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...
directed by
Breck Eisner
Michael Breckenridge Eisner (born December 24, 1970) is an American television and film director.
Early life
Eisner was born in California, the son of Jane Breckenridge, a business advisor and computer programmer, and Michael Eisner, the form ...
from a screenplay from
Scott Kosar
Scott Kosar is an American screenwriter whose films include ''The Machinist'', the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film), 2003 remake of the classic horror film ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'', and the The Amityville Horror (2005 film), 2005 r ...
and Ray Wright. The film is a
remake
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of the
1973 film of the same name and stars
Timothy Olyphant
Timothy David Olyphant ( ; born May 20, 1968) is an American actor. He made his acting debut in an off-Broadway theater in 1995, in ''The Monogamist'', and won the Theatre World Award for his performance, and then originated David Sedaris' ''Th ...
,
Radha Mitchell
Radha Rani Amber Indigo Ananda Mitchell is an Australian actress. She started her career with various appearances on Australian television, including a regular role as Catherine O'Brien in the soap opera ''Neighbours'' (1996–97).
Mitchell la ...
,
Joe Anderson and
Danielle Panabaker
Danielle Nicole Panabaker (born September 19, 1987) is an American actress. She began acting as a teenager and came to prominence for her roles in the Disney films '' Stuck in the Suburbs'' (2004), '' Sky High'' (2005) and ''Read It and Weep'' ( ...
.
George A. Romero
George Andrew Romero (; February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer, editor and actor. His ''Night of the Living Dead'' series of films about an imagined zombie apocalypse began with the 1968 film of the ...
, who wrote and directed the original, served as an executive producer. It is about a fictional
Iowa
Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...
town that becomes afflicted by a
biological agent
A biological agent (also called bio-agent, biological threat agent, biological warfare agent, biological weapon, or bioweapon) is a bacterium, virus, protozoan, parasite, fungus, or toxin that can be used purposefully as a weapon in bioterroris ...
that turns those infected into violent killers. The film was released on February 26 and grossed $55 million on a $20 million budget. The critical summary on
Rotten Tomatoes
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calls it "tense, nicely shot, and uncommonly intelligent", and it received mixed reviews on
Metacritic
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.
Plot
In the town of Ogden Marsh, Iowa, sheriff David Dutton is enjoying a baseball game when it is interrupted by resident Rory entering the outfield with a shotgun. David attempts to dissuade him, but is forced to kill him when he raises his weapon. David's wife Judy, the community doctor, has begun to notice another resident exhibiting bizarre behavior, including lifeless and repetitive speech. The next night, a local farmer locks his wife and son inside their farmhouse and burns it down.
Following the discovery of a pilot's body in a swamp, David and his deputy Russell investigate the area. They discover a military aircraft that crashed into the river a few days before. Suspecting a link between the contaminated water and the residents' bizarre behavior, David lobbies Mayor Hobbs to shut off the town's drinking water supply. He is denied, but does so anyway.
Soon after, all communication services are lost in town and soldiers arrive to quarantine all residents at a high school. The residents are examined for symptoms of infection, and Judy does not pass the examination due to elevated temperature because of her pregnancy and is separated from David. David escapes quarantine and returns to his office, encountering Russell. The pair head for the school to free Judy. At the school, infected townspeople breach the perimeter, and the military personnel evacuate, abandoning the civilians. Judy wakes up strapped to a gurney alongside several others, and school director Ben Sandborn enters and begins killing quarantined people. David and Russell arrive and kill Ben, freeing her and Becca, Judy's assistant.
Unable to find a working vehicle, the four make their way out of town on foot. They encounter Becca's boyfriend Scotty at his farm. Soldiers raid the farm, shoot Scotty and his mother, and burn their bodies. David subdues a soldier and learns that the military has been ordered to shoot all civilians. The group repairs a patrol car in David's garage and are ambushed in David's house by Rory's infected wife Peggy and son Curt. Peggy stabs David in the hand before he kills her, and Russell shoots Curt through a window. Russell shoots the pair's corpses multiple times, disturbing Judy.
David, Judy, Becca, and Russell flee in a car. On the road, they are spotted by an attack helicopter and drive into a car wash for cover. Employees at the car wash attack the car and drag Becca out by the neck with a hose, breaking her neck and killing her. When the rest of the group leaves the car to help her, the helicopter destroys the car.
While walking down the road, the group spots a black SUV speeding toward them, which Russell disables with a police spike strip. The driver, a government employee, reveals that the cargo plane contained a Rhabdoviridae prototype and biological weapon called Trixie. It was en route to Texas to be destroyed when the plane crashed. Enraged, Russell shoots him and threatens the Duttons. David confronts him about his behavior, and Russell realizes he is infected. Russell begs to continue with them. At a military roadblock, Russell distracts the soldiers and is killed, allowing the Duttons to sneak past.
David and Judy arrive at a truck stop to search for a vehicle, discovering that the military has also executed those who were evacuated. After killing more infected, they escape in a semi-truck. As they drive away, a massive explosion destroys Ogden Marsh and disables their truck, forcing them to continue on foot. A view from a military satellite highlights the couple and then the city, and the words "Initiate containment protocol" appear, signifying a new containment task.
In a mid-credits scene, a Cedar Rapids newscaster reports on the explosion in Ogden Marsh. He says a perimeter has been set and civilians are not being allowed into the area. An infected individual appears on camera before the signal is lost.
Cast
*
Timothy Olyphant
Timothy David Olyphant ( ; born May 20, 1968) is an American actor. He made his acting debut in an off-Broadway theater in 1995, in ''The Monogamist'', and won the Theatre World Award for his performance, and then originated David Sedaris' ''Th ...
as David
*
Radha Mitchell
Radha Rani Amber Indigo Ananda Mitchell is an Australian actress. She started her career with various appearances on Australian television, including a regular role as Catherine O'Brien in the soap opera ''Neighbours'' (1996–97).
Mitchell la ...
as Judy
*
Joe Anderson as Russell
*
Danielle Panabaker
Danielle Nicole Panabaker (born September 19, 1987) is an American actress. She began acting as a teenager and came to prominence for her roles in the Disney films '' Stuck in the Suburbs'' (2004), '' Sky High'' (2005) and ''Read It and Weep'' ( ...
as Becca
*
Christie Lynn Smith
Christie Lynn Smith is an American actress best known for her role as Deardra Farnum in the 2010 film '' The Crazies''.
Career
Smith grew up in the United States. Since 1991, she has guest starred in numerous television series including ''Beve ...
as Deardra Farnum
* Brett Rickaby as Bill Farnum
*
Preston Bailey
Preston Bailey (born July 25, 2000) is an American actor who started acting at the age of two. He is known for appearing in the Showtime television series '' Dexter'' and for starring in such films as '' Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer'', ...
as Nicholas
*
John Aylward
John Aylward (November 7, 1946 – May 16, 2022) was an American actor.
He was best known for playing the former DNC chairman Barry Goodwin on the NBC television series ''The West Wing'' and for playing Dr. Donald Anspaugh on the NBC televisio ...
as Mayor Hobbs
* Joe Reegan as Pvt. Billy Babcock
*
Glenn Morshower
Glenn Morshower is an American character actor. He is best known for playing United States Secret Service, Secret Service Agent Aaron Pierce (24 character), Aaron Pierce in ''24 (TV series), 24'' and Colonel (later General) Sharp Morshower in the ...
as Intelligence Officer
*
Larry Cedar
Larry Frank Cedar (born March 6, 1955) is an American voice, film and television actor, best known as one of the players of the Children's Television Workshop mathematics show ''Square One TV'' on PBS from 1987 to 1994. He played Max, Alex the B ...
as Ben Sandborn
*
Gregory Sporleder
Gregory Sporleder (born April 14, 1964) is an American actor and filmmaker, notable for playing military men in films such as '' The Rock'', '' Black Hawk Down'' and ''Renaissance Man'', as well as Calvin Norris in the HBO series ''True Blood'' ...
as Travis Quinn
* Mike Hickman as Rory Hamill
*
Lisa K. Wyatt
Lisa K. Wyatt is an American actress and comedian. According to the biography on her official site, she has appeared in more than 150 film, television and regional theatre credits. In the fifth season of ''The Office'', she appeared as Lynne, th ...
as Peggy Hamill
*
Justin Welborn
Justin Welborn is a character actor and singer known for his roles in the films '' The Signal'', '' Dance of the Dead'', and ''The Final Destination''. He was a recurring character on the FX Network hit show '' Justified'', with his last appearanc ...
as Curt Hamill
Lynn Lowry
Linda Kay "Lynn" Lowry (born October 15, 1947) is an American actress, screenwriter and producer.
She is perhaps best known for her work in horror films, having appeared in the cult films '' I Drink Your Blood'' (1970), George A. Romero's '' Th ...
, who portrayed Kathy in the original film, makes a cameo appearance as an infected woman on a bicycle.
Production
Development
Paramount Pictures
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was the first studio to attempt a
remake
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of ''
The Crazies'', with reports surfacing in May 2004. Dean Georgaris and Michael Aguilar would produce under their Penn Station Entertainment banner while
George A. Romero
George Andrew Romero (; February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer, editor and actor. His ''Night of the Living Dead'' series of films about an imagined zombie apocalypse began with the 1968 film of the ...
would serve as an executive producer.
Scott Kosar
Scott Kosar is an American screenwriter whose films include ''The Machinist'', the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film), 2003 remake of the classic horror film ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'', and the The Amityville Horror (2005 film), 2005 r ...
, who had worked on the remakes of ''
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' is a 1974 American horror film produced and directed by Tobe Hooper from a story and screenplay by Hooper and Kim Henkel. It stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow and Gunnar Hansen, ...
'' and ''
The Amityville Horror
''The Amityville Horror'' is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1977. It is also the basis of a series of films released from 1979 onward. The book is based on the claims of paranormal experiences by the Lutz family, b ...
'', was hired to pen the script. The film was said to "update the storyline of the original". In March 2005, ''
The Machinist
''The Machinist'' is a 2004 psychological thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Scott Kosar. It stars Christian Bale as the title character, a machinist struggling with guilt, paranoia, and delusion after being unable to sleep ...
'' director
Brad Anderson was in talks to direct the film. By April, Anderson was officially on board as director. Anderson and Kosar aimed to make a film that didn't feel "derivative" of the original film as well as ''
28 Days Later
''28 Days Later'' is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. It stars Cillian Murphy as a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover the accidental release of a highly contagi ...
'', which the former felt "set a new standard for
zombie films
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". Creative differences with the studio would ultimately result in Anderson leaving the film.
In February 2008, the project was revived after
Rogue Pictures
Rogue (originally Rogue Pictures) is an American independent production company founded in 1998 by Patrick Gunn and Matt Wall, originally started off as a genre film label of the Universal-affiliated independent film studio October Films and was ...
picked up the film.
Breck Eisner
Michael Breckenridge Eisner (born December 24, 1970) is an American television and film director.
Early life
Eisner was born in California, the son of Jane Breckenridge, a business advisor and computer programmer, and Michael Eisner, the form ...
was to direct while Ray Wright, credited screenwriter of ''
Pulse
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'', was drafting a new script. The film was later moved to
Overture Films
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by October.
Casting
In November 2008,
Timothy Olyphant
Timothy David Olyphant ( ; born May 20, 1968) is an American actor. He made his acting debut in an off-Broadway theater in 1995, in ''The Monogamist'', and won the Theatre World Award for his performance, and then originated David Sedaris' ''Th ...
was cast in the lead role as the town's sheriff.
Radha Mitchell
Radha Rani Amber Indigo Ananda Mitchell is an Australian actress. She started her career with various appearances on Australian television, including a regular role as Catherine O'Brien in the soap opera ''Neighbours'' (1996–97).
Mitchell la ...
joined the cast the following January, while
Danielle Panabaker
Danielle Nicole Panabaker (born September 19, 1987) is an American actress. She began acting as a teenager and came to prominence for her roles in the Disney films '' Stuck in the Suburbs'' (2004), '' Sky High'' (2005) and ''Read It and Weep'' ( ...
and
Joe Anderson boarded the film in March.
Filming
Principal production began on March 5, 2009 in
Georgia
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* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
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* Related to the ...
, with settings including the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Priester's Pecans in
Perry, Georgia
Perry is a city in Houston and Peach counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the county seat of Houston County. The population was 13,839 at the 2010 census, up from 9,602 at the 2000 census. As of 2019 the estimated population was 17,894. I ...
, the Fountain Car Wash in
Macon, Georgia
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, areas in
Dublin, Georgia
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History
The original settlement was named after Dublin, Ireland.
Dublin, accordi ...
, Peach County High School in
Fort Valley, Georgia
Fort Valley is a city in and the county seat of Peach County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 8,780.
The city is in the Warner Robins metropolitan area and the Macon–Warner Robins combined statisti ...
, and areas of
Cordele, Georgia
Cordele is a city in and the county seat of Crisp County, Georgia, United States. The population was 11,147 at the 2010 census.
Cordele calls itself the Watermelon Capital of the World.
History
Cordele was incorporated on January 1, 1888, and ...
. Additional filming was done in
Iowa
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.
[‘Crazies’ remake filming under way in Perry](_blank)
The special effects were created by
Robert Green Hall
Robert Green Hall (November 27, 1973 – May 24, 2021) was an American special makeup effects artist, film director, musician, and owner of PostHuman FX, specializing in providing seamlessly integrated makeup and visual effects.
Career
Make-up ...
.
Makeup
The makeup for the film was designed by Almost Human Studios; they also did makeup for other horror films such as ''
Quarantine
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'', ''
Frankenfish
''Frankenfish'' is a 2004 American horror film dealing with genetically engineered fish in the bayou. Filmed in Baldwin County, Alabama, a pack of massive, bloodthirsty, genetically engineered fish combing the quiet waters of the river in the Lou ...
'', and ''
Prom Night''. Director Breck Eisner's early visions of the infected were zombies. He and the makeup crew made many molds and sketches of the infected, with deformities and skin sloughing. Eventually, he grew tired of the cliche "zombie" look, and went with a realistic "go under the skin," in which the blood vessels appear to be bursting forth and face and neck muscles and tendons tight and wrought. Eisner described this look as "hyper alive."
The director's one and only rule for the makeup design—they research in medical books and consult medical professionals for the design of the infected. Lead make-up artist Rob Hall said "If we were to pitch something to Breck, about, if you know, one side of his face should look like this, Breck would immediately want to know what disease it came from, and what version of reality it could be implemented into Trixie. But the most important thing was to make sure it felt ''real''. Make it feel like you could get it, too." The basis of the makeup the crew used was mainly
rabies
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,
tetanus
Tetanus, also known as lockjaw, is a bacterial infection caused by ''Clostridium tetani'', and is characterized by muscle spasms. In the most common type, the spasms begin in the jaw and then progress to the rest of the body. Each spasm usually ...
, and
Stevens–Johnson syndrome
Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS) is a type of severe skin reaction. Together with toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and Stevens–Johnson/toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN), it forms a spectrum of disease, with SJS being less severe. Erythema ...
.
Each "Crazy" design had about twenty-one sections requiring over three hours to apply for the final effect seen in the film. Robert stated the final effect in the film seen was not just the makeup, but the lighting, camera angles, and post-production effects. The theme for the design was "stress." He stated he wanted the "Crazies" to look stressed. The veins and eyes were the main focus of the design. The contact lenses covered the actors' entire eyes and required eye-drops every five minutes to reduce injuries.
Release
The film premiered on February 24, 2010 in
Los Angeles
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and received a wide release in the
North America
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on February 26, 2010. The film opened at #3 behind ''
Cop Out
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'' and ''
Shutter Island
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'' with $16 million. By May 2010, the film has grossed an estimated $50 million worldwide.
The Canadian DVD and Blu-ray Disc were released June 29, 2010. The DVD and Blu-ray Disc +
Digital Copy
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combo pack was released in the North America on June 29, 2010 and in the UK on July 19.
Reception
On review aggregator
Rotten Tomatoes
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, the film has a rating of 71% based on 148 reviews and an average rating of 6.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Tense, nicely shot, and uncommonly intelligent, ''The Crazies'' is a horror remake that, unusually, works." On
Metacritic
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, which assigns a rating to reviews, the film has an average score of 55 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by
CinemaScore
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Background
Ed Mintz founded Ci ...
gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.
Michael Phillips of ''
The Chicago Tribune
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'' awarded the film 3½ stars of 4, adding he "greatly prefer this cleverly sustained and efficiently relentless remake to the '73 edition. It is lean and simple." Eric M. Armstrong of ''
The Moving Arts Film Journal
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The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) is ...
'' states "''The Crazies'' is a solid
B-movie
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and one of the few remakes surpassing the original."
Ty Burr
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of ''
The Boston Globe
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'' gave the film 3/4 stars touting the film as "extremely solid stuff – about as good as you could hope from a
B-movie
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re-tread." ''
Variety
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'' film critic Dennis Harvey states it "emerges an above-average genre piece equal parts horror-meller and doomsday action thriller".
However,
Owen Gleiberman
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of ''
Entertainment Weekly
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'' graded the film a C, adding "I don't care how this premise is dressed, we saw it a jillion times." Mike Hale of ''
The New York Times
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'' states "The filmmakers seem so determined to make a serious respectable horror movie, they have only the bare minimum of fun." Amy Biancolli, writing for ''
San Francisco Chronicle
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'' states the re-make "boasts less of the plot and fewer characters than the original, but the hairdos are spiffier and the special effects graduated from cheapo stage blood to the extravagant gross-outs horror audiences expect."
At the
People's Choice Awards
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, the film was nominated for Favorite Horror Movie.
Merchandise
A
motion comic
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was released on February 17 via
iTunes
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. A four-issue comic book miniseries was also released chronicling how the virus' spread. The next week, an iPhone app, ''Beware the Infected'', was released, and
Starz Digital Media released a
Facebook
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game.
See also
*
''The Crazies'' (1973 film)
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