| In a terrifying tale of the American Dream gone | | | | is killing everyone on sight. They're going to have |
| wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in | | | | to fight their way out, or die by either the plague |
| their hometown in The Crazies, a reinvention of | | | | or the military.At the risk of sounding like a |
| the George Romero classic.David Dutton is sheriff | | | | broken record, the advertising for The Crazies |
| of Ogden Marsh, a picture-perfect American town | | | | has been uniformly good over the past couple of |
| with happy, law-abiding citizens. But one night, one | | | | months. It doesn't have me bolting out of my |
| of them comes to a school baseball game with a | | | | chair or anything, but for a genre picture - |
| loaded shotgun, ready to kill. Another man burns | | | | particularly this genre - they're making the right |
| down his house after locking his wife and young | | | | choices.As you probably know, it's a George |
| son in a closet inside. Something is infecting the | | | | Romero remake, but without the instant name |
| citizens of Ogden Marsh . . . with insanity.The few | | | | recognition of Dawn of the Dead. However, it |
| still sane find themselves trapped: Sheriff Dutton; | | | | looks like that's the plan of attack director Breck |
| his pregnant wife, Judy; Becca, an assistant at the | | | | Eisner is using for The Crazies as well, and why |
| medical center; and Russell, Dutton's deputy and | | | | not? He'll be extremely fortunate if this movie |
| right-hand man. Forced to band together, an | | | | turns out as well as Zack Snyder's Dawn. And, |
| ordinary night becomes a struggle for survival as | | | | you know, just because it's a remake doesn't |
| they try to get out of town alive. | | | | mean he has to completely go against the grain. |
| The Crazies is about the inhabitants of a small | | | | There should be some effort made to keep what |
| Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then | | | | works and find a way to tell that story to a fresh |
| death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their | | | | audience. So far, based on the trailers and clips |
| water supply. One man, his wife, a nurse, and the | | | | and commercials, I think they've achieved that. |
| sheriff try to survive this plague, but the military | | | | |