The Crazies - Fear Your Neighbor
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| German title | The Crazies - Fear Your Neighbor |
| Original title | The Crazies |
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| Country of production | USA , United Arab Emirates |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 18 JMK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Breck Eisner |
| script |
Scott Kosar , Ray Wright |
| production |
Michael Aguilar , Rob Cowan , Dean Georgaris |
| music | Mark Isham |
| camera | Maxime Alexandre |
| cut | Billy Fox |
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The Crazies is an American survival / horror film from 2010 . Directed by Breck Eisner . The production is a remake of the 1973 film Crazies by George A. Romero , who is involved in the new edition as executive producer . The film opened in German cinemas on May 27, 2010.
action
In the US state of Iowa, horror is moving into the small rural town of Ogden Marsh. The redneck Rory staggers apathetically in the middle of a baseball game. With the loaded shotgun in hand, he goes into the field. Sheriff David Dutton and his Deputy Russell Clank step in and try in vain to bring Rory to his senses. David finally kills his counterpart in self-defense. But that is the beginning of a series of shocking events. More and more Ogden Marsh residents are transforming themselves into emotionless, bruised beasts who seek the death of their fellow citizens. At the same time, several black limousines are spotted in the village, which suddenly drive away when approaching. When the telephone and cellular networks are cut, David suspects the cause of the epidemic to be an incident that the authorities are supposed to keep secret. His research reveals that a military plane crashed nearby and is now lying at the bottom of the town's drinking water lake.
The US military is trying to put an end to the drama through rigorous crackdown at gunpoint. Ogden Marsh will be cordoned off. Then the infected, people with increased body temperature, are sorted out and interned. David and his pregnant wife Judy, a doctor, are briefly separated because the military measures her temperature during the inspection. She is taken to a ward in which several infected people are strapped to beds around her. While David tries to get weapons, he meets Russel, whom he has lost sight of and who is also hiding from the military. Suddenly the military and the doctors flee the hospital after it can be seen outside how infected and non-infected people have broken through the fences and storm the premises. After a while, infected people appear, but David and Russel can free Judy. Young Becca is now joining them.
The four of them flee from the soldiers and mad figures and try to escape the former idyll. On the way, they have to hide their car from an approaching military helicopter in a car wash, which is started by infected people who suddenly appear. While the car is inevitably dragged into the car wash, several infected people attack the occupants. David can finally set the car in motion and when they are almost there, Becca is torn from the car with a hose around her neck and hanged. The other three jump out of the car and run back to save them, which is too late. They also kill other infected people. As they are mourning Becca, the car is blown up from the helicopter by an air-to-ground missile and the three of them have to continue their escape on foot.
On the way, David tries to stop an approaching black limousine, but Russel gets ahead of him and stops the car with a fang lock. David forces the driver, apparently a federal agent, to divulge the information about the disease. He learns that the cause of the epidemic that has broken out is a biological weapon, a rabies virus called Trixie to “destabilize the population of crisis areas”. As soon as the agent has finished speaking, he is shot by Russel. It is slowly becoming clear that Russel is also infected. He forces the two at gunpoint to run in front of him. After some time, David succeeds in disarming Russel, who knows that something is wrong with him. Despite concerns, David and Judy continue to take him with them.
When they encounter a large military roadblock, the infected Russell distracts the soldiers and lets himself be shot. Judy and David pass the barrier unnoticed and discover a collection of trucks at a rest stop, which, to their horror, also have the corpses of uninfected residents of the affected area inside. In the truck workshop at the rest stop there is another argument between the two and the infected. You can kill the infected and continue with a truck. Over the radio they hear a countdown, when it is on zero, Judy and David watch as the military destroys the cordoned off area around Ogden Marsh with an atomic bomb. At the end, they march into the city of Cedar Rapids , not knowing that the metropolis is doomed, as it were. You can see how the camera continues to open and then turns out to be an image of a satellite that is currently retrieving data about the small town that David and Judy are walking towards.
In the credits, a newscaster explains that the town of Ogden Marsh was destroyed by the explosion of a chemical plant. The news broadcast is canceled when an infected person falls on the camera.
background
Film director George A. Romero made use of epidemic and undead themes in his early works . Crazies from 1973 was made between the two zombie films The Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Zombie (1978). In contrast to the walking and instinct-driven revenants, in Crazies people went mad through the use of military combat material and began to take action against their loved ones. They had increased motor skills and good responsiveness.
The remake essentially follows Romero's original, although the ending is different. In the original version, for example, the prospect of salvation in the form of an antidote, while in the new edition, Eisner's fourth full-length feature film, a possible immune serum remains unnamed. In addition, the epidemic spreads to a large city.
Reviews
"Effective, socially critical horror remake about a murderous virus - hardly original, but grippingly implemented."
“Breck Eisner's The Crazies will not gain any greater relevance for film history than George Romeros, especially since the level of violence limits the target group to fans of the zombie genre. But despite some lengths in the last third, the bottom line is that a straight recommendation can be made. Serious horror has not been so entertaining for a long time. "
"Exciting and fast-paced horror film remake with drastic scenes of violence, which for the most part are not an end in themselves, but rather trace the decline of a petty-bourgeois society and the irresponsibility of state institutions."
“The moments of tension are skillfully maintained, the fights are staged in a rousing manner, and every now and then they wallow in their imaginative, absurd brutality. If the film were a machine, it would have to be described as well-oiled and efficient. "
Web links
- The Crazies - Fear thy neighbor in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- The Crazies - Fear Your Neighbor in the online movie database
- The Crazies - Fear thy neighbor at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release Certificate for The Crazies - Fear Your Neighbor . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 674 K).
- ↑ Age rating for The Crazies - Fear Your Neighbor . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Cinefacts.de: Review , accessed on December 7, 2010.
- ↑ Moviegod.de: criticism , accessed on 7 December of 2010.
- ↑ The Crazies - Fear Your Neighbor. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Critic.de: Filmkritik , accessed on June 21, 2013.