The Crazies

Watch The Crazies as a toxin begins to turn the residents of Ogden Marsh, Iowa into violent psychopaths, sheriff David Dutton (Olyphant) tries to make sense of the situation while he, his wife (Mitchell), and two other unaffected townspeople band together in a fight for survival.

To its credit, there is plenty of action, and the action sequences play into the drama. There’s some random violence, but most of the conflicts build character development and push the characters even further into terror and desperation. The Crazies also avoids superhuman stunts. There’s no MacGuyver or Keanu Reaves type in the film who knows exactly what to do and makes the film too campy to be scary.

All in all, The Crazies is a solid film that really did give me a nightmare. I’ll give it a respectable but not classic 3.5 out of 5.

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