Full Plot Synopsis for The Crazies
Source:Overture Films
September 3, 2009
Overture Films has provided us with the synopsis for
The Crazies. Read on.
Imagine living in a small town where everything is safe and happy... until suddenly it isn't. Imagine your friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane. In a terrifying tale of the "American Dream" gone horribly wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in their hometown in "The Crazies," a reinvention of the George Romero classic directed by Breck Eisner from a screenplay by Ray Wright and Scott Kosar.
David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) is sheriff of Ogden Marsh, a picture-perfect American town with happy, law-abiding citizens. But one night, one of them comes to a school baseball game with a loaded shotgun, ready to kill. Another man burns down his own house…after locking his wife and young son in a closet inside. Within days, the town has transformed into a sickening asylum; people who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives have now become depraved, blood-thirsty killers, hiding in the darkness with guns and knives. Sheriff Dutton tries to make sense of what's happening as the horrific, nonsensical violence escalates. Something is infecting the citizens of Ogden Marsh... with insanity. Now complete anarchy reigns as one by one the townsfolk succumb to an unknown toxin and turn sadistically violent. In an effort to keep the madness contained, the government uses deadly force to close off all access and won't let anyone in or out – even those uninfected. The few still sane find themselves trapped: Sheriff Dutton; his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell); Becca (Danielle Panabaker), an assistant at the medical center; and Russell (Joe Anderson), Dutton's deputy and right-hand man. Forced to band together, an ordinary night becomes a horrifying struggle for survival as they do their best to get out of town alive.
The Crazies opens on February 26. Read our full set report
here.
Comments
Posted by: djblack1313 on September 3, 2009 at 17:25:01
i can't wait for this!
Posted by: Studmuffin220 on September 3, 2009 at 18:18:44
Agh we need the trailer already!! lol
Posted by: Michelle on September 3, 2009 at 19:58:37
I hope this one works out better than Sahara! And I hope Flash Gordon is mind blowing.
Posted by: urb on September 4, 2009 at 00:48:52
Well im a huge fan of Romero, (dawn, night, day are my favorite series of movies) and i do enjoy Bruiser and yes even KnightRider and Martin is something else. I did enjoy the crazies but lets be real, it did instill a sense of frustration; especially with the doctors involved. I will welcome a remake as much as a i welcomed a remake of Dawn (my top ten) which i enjoyed thoroughly and thought tried to alter the original meaning of fear and consumerism to contemporary states......anyway, ill watch it with timothy olyphant and see what happens
Posted by: joe asylo on September 4, 2009 at 03:06:21
well is a sequel to outbreak then.
Posted by: Dan the Man on September 4, 2009 at 09:29:11
I like how in the discription it says they are all friends, and then at the end it says they are forced to work together. Oxymoron
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