Been to see The Crazies tonight at the local Cineworld. I went mostly out of curiosity as it's a remake (yes, another) of a 1973 flick of the same name by zombiemeastro George A. Romero, a film I never managed to see largely because it was never on late night UK TV as I was growing up. I knew about the '73 film back then as it was featured in monster mags I got at the time like Quasimodo and Halls of Horror. I've always been fascinated by apocolyptic scenarios in books and films and the Crazies is one such tale of a small American town stricken by a deadly virus, which can only be contained using extreme measures. It's stablemates include Outbreak and the much more interesting and vintage Andromeda Strain. The current rash of post-apocolyptic flims like the Crazies, The Road and the Book of Eli I think are a sign of the times, where worldwide recession and pandemic have heightened our most primal of fears - will we survive?
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