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  • The Crazies (1973)
    Review preview for The Crazies

    The simplicity of the location, with its gentle green hills and thin woodland, makes it feel as if it could be anywhere, yet Romero positions his camera so as to generate maximum tension from it.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
  • The Crazies (2010)
    Review preview for The Crazies

    The success of this film is in its attention to the sort of small human details that create the boundaries of our day to day worlds, the things we hang onto and use to define normality.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A mysterious toxin in the water supply drives most of the people of a small town crazy, so that they turn upon their friends and neighbours in this remake of the George Romero classic.

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