REVIEW: The Crazies

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News of another Romero rehash, or even just a remake of anything, usually inspires more chills than mirth and after Tom Savini’s misguided ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and the shallow drudgery of Zack Snyder’s ‘Dawn of the Dead’, then why not? However, this film was an interesting concept in that it was very possible that a remake could improve on the heavy-handed original. Alas, it doesn’t.

BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN

The funny beginning promises something entertaining and fresh, however this bleak tale of a town’s vicious containment by gas-masked soldiers after the spread of a virus that makes people go murderously crazy leaves no cliché behind. The film offers no surprises and the violence isn’t entertaining or effective as its all left unseen in the vein of your typical 15-rated horror film. It isn’t a terrible film. In fact it’s the best Romero remake. The problem is that there is absolutely nothing that you haven’t seen before.

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