THE CRAZIES

Girl’s shout out to my brother...

What? Did you mention that my brother worked on this movie? What? No way! The visual effects were the best part, you say? I totally agree!

Anyways, putting my obvious bias aside, I did not mind this movie. To be fair, I did not see the original, which Guy supposedly enjoys. Nor am I a huge horror buff to accurately judge these in a typical geeky way. For me, horror is all about what mood I am in, what else I have to do that day, and if I’m lazy/bored enough to deal with watching a movie that is all about suspense, timing and gore. If I’m a girly mess of fidgeting and talking, a horror movie is not the best thing to sit me down in front of.

Thankfully, I was in a good mood to watch this movie when we did. It paid off in that, despite being #3 in the box office BEHIND Kevin Smith’s failure Cop Out, I thought it was a clever and simple, with just enough suspense, gore and a good to bad acting ratio. Surprisingly, it’s rating higher than the 1973 original on both IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, and got a solid amount of good reviews, stating that the filmmaker, Breck Eisner, kept this remake “lean and simple”, creating a legitimate B horror movie.

Girl’s Rating: If it’s in the cheap bin, rental or purchase, at the video store, I would suggest picking it up. It’s worth the watch during the Friday night horror hour.

Guy’s shout out to the great Nate...

Without the great blood, brains and guts effect this movie would have disappeared in the masses. Now it almost looks like a snuff movie. Yeah, that’s how fucking great the special effects was in this movie. I know Nate is modest when it comes to his level of involvement when it comes to the movies that he work on but I know for a fact (not really) that nothing gets done without him overseeing it.

What about the movie then. There’s a bunch of zombie movies that show up every year (Nate seems to work on all of them). This on is a little bit better then the once I’ve seen lately. Not that the story was good, all of these movies seem to have the same one. Virus spreads, zombies appear and the people that are not effected will have to fight them off.

To set it self apart it has to have good violence and some cool actors.This movie has both. Now, if you compare it to other movies in general it’s not that great anymore.

Guy’s rating: If you’re an avid horror collector then this DVD has a place on your shelf.