The Crazies

The Crazies

1973 · 103 min · EN · R · 6.1 (430 votes)
Dir. George A. Romero · Starring Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones, Lynn Lowry, Lloyd Hollar, Richard Liberty · Music Bruce Roberts

“Why are the good people dying?”

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The military attempts to contain a manmade virus causing death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.

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A relentless descent into madness where familiar faces warp into homicidal threats. The film crackles with a palpable sense of dread and escalating chaos, as a small town becomes a petri dish for terror and military might.

dread-soakedparanoidvisceralchaoticpropulsivegrittylow-fi horrorexploitationpolitical thrillersurvivalparanoiagovernment overreachloss of control
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