The Crazies: Aggression Personified

The Crazies was a George A. Romero movie from the 1970s. There was a remake in 2010 starring Timothy Olyphant. He is the sherif of a midwest town and a plane crashes mysteriously. The movie starts and about ten minutes in, one of the citizens has a gun at a baseball game and is incoherent. The sherif warns him to put it down but he is unresponsive and holds up the gun. The sheriff is forced to shoot and kill the man.

The townspeople talk about their problems and things that annoy them and when the virus starts infecting people their aggression gets amplified. Other than that there isn’t much of a plot. The whole movie is seeing people complain about something and then that’s the only think on their mind when they turn into zombies.

Radha Mitchell plays the sheriff's wife and she is used to being in movies with zombies and demons. She usually plays the smart female or scientist character. She’s a doctor in this movie and she notices the townspeople are acting strangely. By the end it’s Olyphant and Mitchell who survive but the government is watching them via satellite. The Crazies was kind of a one not movie. It shows how aggression can be amplified and how a virus can spread but there isn’t much more other than Timothy Olyphant’s performance. 🍔🍔