The Crazies, in brief

Just a few days ago, I watched The Crazies. And compared to Shutter Island and Alice in Wonderland, I liked this movie the best.  Sometimes, I just like simple, and that’s exactly what The Crazies was – simple. Not a blockbuster, or something with a crazy and thought-provoking plot.   The previews, the plot, and the execution, there was hardly anything to think about.  Simple, survival, horror.

It also helped the fact that I was so graciously allowed to actually redeem a free movie ticket I had earned throughout the last few months, so I paid absolutely nothing to enjoy a good thriller.

I like Timothy Olyphant, and it’s admittedly a little strange to see him portraying a morally strong, face-type, instead of the arrogant, yet dangerously intelligent heel-type he seems to always portray in everything else he does.

Radha Mitchell, I think most people would remember her if at all, as the mom from the Silent Hill film rendition, but only dweebs like me remembers cast names in a flick where a chick gets ripped from the inside-out from rusty barb wires going up into her cooter.  She plays the sheriff’s wife, who is precariously hot-bodied despite being like, two seconds pregnant.

And that’s really about it.  Small, corn-fed Iowa town gets infected with a mystery disease that makes people go insane, and a small band of survivors try to get out of dodge before the shit hits the fan.  Simple, yet not at all bad.  To emphasize how much I enjoyed the flick, one of these days it’ll be on one of the four Cinemax channels.  If I were to run into The Crazies on Cinemax, I’m definitely holding the channel.  Unless Forrest Gump is on another Cinemax channel.

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