The Crazies

After the success of his classic Night of the Living Dead (1968), horror master George Romero followed up with this low-budget thriller. Airplane crashes outside of a small Pennsylvania town and unleashes a bio chemical substance that turns the locals into... Full review

You can really detect the Night of the Living Dead influences with this mediocre Romero flick that also deals with a puzzling, catastrophic herd of mindless beings that threatens human existence. After a plane carrying a man-made biological virus crashes... Full review

A plane crashes near Pittsburgh carrying a bacteriological weapon called "Trixie". It gets into a nearby town's water supply causing it's citizen to go crazy, some of them homicidal maniacs. Some of the town's residents try to escape through a... Full review

The Crazies (1973) was a film by horror film maker George A. Romero. A military biological weapons is accidentally released in a small town. Evans City, PA. is the unlucky recipient to a very deadly virus that has fouled the nearby... Full review

The Crazies (1973) was a film by horror film maker George A. Romero. A military biological weapons is accidentally released in a small town. Evans City, PA. is the unlucky recipient to a very deadly virus that has fouled the... Full review

Very cheaply made film by Director George Romero about a virus, known as Trixie, that has somehow leaked out in a small town in Western Pennsylvania. The military quickly comes, assesses the situation, and then implements martial law. This is... Full review

Just in case some stubborn people are still questioning George A. Romero's talent after his 1968 milestone "Night of the Living Dead", we hereby present "The Crazies"! Once again a film stuffed with subtle criticism on society and pitch black... Full review

The people in a small town in PA are exposed to a virus in their drinking water from the crash of a military plane. The virus is experimental germ warfare crated by the arming that will either cause its victims... Full review

Romero's zombie classics 'Night Of The Living Dead' and 'Dawn Of The Dead' are two of the best horror movies ever made, but they really cast a huge shadow over his career. Romero made two movies in between that are... Full review

Like Romero's "Day of the Dead," this is another marathon of carnage and excess talk, filled with scattered themes (martial law, role of the military, bureaucracy, disease, etc.). It's high-concept stuff, granted, but the budget is low and the script... Full review

Oddly enough, of all the suggested (and executed) Romero remakes I thought THE CRAZIES could translate the best. I loved the serious take on the vampire legend in MARTIN and consider it one of Romero's best overall movies, but THE CRAZIES was my favorite. ... Full Review

Oddly enough, of all the suggested (and executed) Romero remakes I thought THE CRAZIES could translate the best. It's a dirty and cheap movie with a great central idea (a toxin is released into a town's water supply that, when ingested, causes the ordinary townspeople go insane... ... Full Review

Fucking terrible movie A movie like this demands the raw touch of a Romero, or at least an interesting spin (like the bible bashing zealot in THE MIST, which has a reasonably similar premise). ... Full Review

Rough and unsteady as the results may be, The Crazies possesses considerable passion and professionalism. The Crazies will, for the moment, satisfy those who regard him as one of the last of the independents who use popular film genres to combine grisly chills with an anti-authoritarian perspective. ... Full Review

Rough and unsteady as the results may be, The Crazies possesses considerable passion and professionalism. The Crazies will, for the moment, satisfy those who regard him as one of the last of the independents who use popular film genres to combine grisly chills with an anti-authoritarian perspective. ... Full Review

You can relive a 1973 horror classic in high definition right before the new theatrical remake hits theaters. The Crazies will make its Blu-ray debut on February 23, just ahead of the Februray 26 theatrical release of The Crazies remake. ... Full Article

Overture FIlms just contacted Bloody-Disgusting to let us know that they have shifted their remake of The Crazies ( set visit ) from its planned September 25th date all the way to February 26, 2010. ... Full Article

Thursday, April 23, 2009 09:12 PM Michael Gingold News - Film News Overture Films has announced that it is moving its remake of George A. ... Full Article

This September Timothy Olyphant will star in a "reinvention" of George Romero's The Crazies . It's the story of an idyllic small town, and four friends trapped there when suddenly all of their friends and neighbors go horrifically insane, transformed... ... Full Article

April 15, 2009 - "It's like an Ebola bleed-out where you're into just a bleeding-out death..." Director Breck Eisner might just be talking about the process this reporter underwent in order to get to the set of his currently shooting... ... Full Article

A walk-on part in Breck Eisner's horror remake The Crazies has been put up for auction on eBay. Eisner's reimagining of George A. Romero's 1974 cult classic will tell the story of a small Iowa town, which suddenly finds its... ... Full Article