Trailer And Poster – The Crazies

Published on October 2, 2009 by Craig Sharp · View Comments

tim olyphant the crazies The new trailer has been released for Breck Eisner’s remake of the George Romero classic – The Crazies.

Starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell and Danielle Panabaker, The Crazies gives us a glimpse into small-town life gone wrong. As the inhabitants of a sleepy town quickly and inexplicably descend into madness, the once peaceful community becomes a bloodbath and the military are called in to help. With the national guard desperate to contain this deadly contagious virus no one is safe, the survivors of this mysterious disease must rely on their own courage and wits to survive.

The film itself seems to go through the usual motions of infected victims, surprised populace and government containment that we’ve seen so many times before. Then again I’m a huge fan of Timothy Olyphant so I’ll be queueing for this nonetheless!

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 will infect the UK from 26th February 2010, check out the trailer and poster below:

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