I never saw George Romero’s original take on The Crazies (1973), so I can’t comment on this latest rendition as a remake. I do know Romero’s film about a town accidently infected by a manmade combat virus – and the military’s outlandishly extreme attempts to contain that mistake – was a deeply rooted reaction to Vietnam and the then recent Kent State shootings. And that same social paranoia would seem to translate rather appropriately to the now.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
The Crazies (2010)
I never saw George Romero’s original take on The Crazies (1973), so I can’t comment on this latest rendition as a remake. I do know Romero’s film about a town accidently infected by a manmade combat virus – and the military’s outlandishly extreme attempts to contain that mistake – was a deeply rooted reaction to Vietnam and the then recent Kent State shootings. And that same social paranoia would seem to translate rather appropriately to the now.
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