oddly enough, I have heard people complain about how smart the main characters were. especially in regards to figuring out what was going on relatively fast. I personally found that hella refreshing.

@hannahdavis5725

7 жыл бұрын

For sure.

@slipknotboy555

7 жыл бұрын

blackdragon6 That's a strange complaint, but I guess that's how people are, heh. I agree with you, sounds like a good thing to me - a huge stereotype in horror is that the main characters are fucking stupid; going the opposite way should be praised

@blackdragon6

7 жыл бұрын

slipknotboy555 ikr

@geoffmacneill4850

7 жыл бұрын

Thats why i liked this film A LOT. The characters try their best NOT to die. They act smart and approach the situation with caution.

@DLYskes1976

7 жыл бұрын

i think the writer's did that, because your seeing it thru the eye's of the town sheriff and doctor wife and his deputy... so it wasnt like the typical zombie / horror movie when it's teens or people in their early 20's... and they are dumber than a box of rocks.. or God forbid, teen's trying to tell their parents about something going on in a horror movie... and the parents tell their kids, they are over reacting or some stupid ass shit..

This movie will always have a special place in my heart. I am not a very complicated man. I work contracting, but when I was younger I just worked for a small lawn keeping, landscaping, and snow removal company about 20 minutes away from that farm house in Iowa. I don't know exactly how it happened, but my boss got contracted to work on this movie, and my small 3 man crew was sent out to that abandoned house to make the property not look like shit and as if somebody actually lived there. Toughest outdoor work day of my life, and I once sat in a truck plowing snow for 40 hours straight. Anyway, we were kept in the dark about the movie, all we knew at the time was that it was for a movie. Nobody ever came out to the house while we were working except the property owner to pay us, and he wasn't allowed to tell us anything either. So I thought it was cool that I technically worked on a movie set for a day, got drunk that weekend, pretty sure I bragged about it too much to my friends (not dissimilar to what I'm doing now) and forgot about doing it after that. Needless to say I didn't even know The Crazies was that movie until I saw it. It was a zombie movie kind of, and being of huge fan of movies like it I saw it in theaters. I can't tell you the feeling I had when I was sitting in the theater and recognised the house onscreen as the one I worked on. Not a sense of pride or anything, it's was a weird sense of content knowing that the one movie I have or ever will work on is actually one I like and want to watch many times. My uncle who lives in Kansas was in a movie about Hellen Keller as an extra for about a second in a half, and that movie is shit. He's an asshole btw, so fuck him. Anyway, I'm just happy the movie is good ^^

@sinkler245

3 жыл бұрын

This is so cool. Hope you still relish in this feeling !

Not only was it a remake done right, it was horror done right. Good horror is when it resonates with the viewer long after the initial scare and not a bloody jumpscare. One notable instance in this film is the house burning scene.

@ArlanKels

4 жыл бұрын

The reason it didn't do so well is because it put more emphasis on proper horror, which meant the kids who are used to jumpscare palooza couldn't handle it. Ho ho ho

@Johnlindsey289

4 жыл бұрын

@John Kugelfischer Nah i say the original is one of my least fave romero movies and i think the remake i like better than the original as it's better acted, better directed, better pacing and likable characters and more intense situtations as the original could had benifited from a remake.

I thought this movie was criminally underrated

@armastat

4 жыл бұрын

I think that is because the pace was kind of slow for a lot of people. I think it made the movie for me, since it expressed that rural is laid back, with out trying to show it with overacting.

@Lucky_Chase

Жыл бұрын

I think your comment is criminally overrated.

Just rewatched this again and it holds up well plus a bit timely. Also the director made a good transition to TV directing The Expanse episodes.

@Malum09

3 жыл бұрын

His career is very sparse in terms of Films, I wonder if it’s because most of them aren’t box office hits

This, and "The Hills Have Eyes," which released four years earlier in 2006, were both done right. If more remakes were like these two, I wouldn't be so opposed to them!

@RusstleDeeJimmie

5 жыл бұрын

The only one i'd add to this list is The Last House On The Left remake was alright too. Not on the level of those two, but I enjoyed it.

@DrGregoryHouseIT

3 жыл бұрын

The 1990 Night Of The Living Dead remake was good too.

@Fluoride_Jones

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrGregoryHouseIT Yes, it was! I loved it as a kid (I was eleven when it was released). I watched it several times. In fact, I should probably order a copy from Amazon. :)

@DrGregoryHouseIT

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fluoride_Jones I was 5 when it was released XD

The Crazies is one of the better horror remakes I've seen. It's a great story, it stuck with the idea of the original and best of all, it kept it's R rating, something that most studios don't do today

@Johnlindsey289

4 жыл бұрын

Of course they can do good r-rated horror

Becca's death in the remake will always be one of the most traumatizing kills for me

Dare I say this, I may actually prefer the remake over the original.

@jakealter5504

4 жыл бұрын

warystatue33 same here

@jaysony8587

4 жыл бұрын

But of course.

@Alanis95br

4 жыл бұрын

Mah nigga

@Johnlindsey289

4 жыл бұрын

The original bored the hell out of me and is inferior to Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow, Martin and Dark Half and i like the remake better

@Axolotl_Mischief

3 жыл бұрын

Why not, there are a lot of remakes out there better than the original. People often times like to conveniently forget that, and demonize remakes with ignorant generalizations.

great remake and hugely underrated, kind of gets lumped in as a zombie film

@ajpod770

7 жыл бұрын

Callum alexander - Yeah, that kinda annoys me, but then again, it's going to be since it is associated with George Romero's Living Dead series.

@cabbyb111

7 жыл бұрын

Ajpod 7 yeah man that's true but to me it's creepier that it's not mindless slow moving corpses. makes it a different kind of film.

@ajpod770

7 жыл бұрын

Callum alexander - I'm with you there, it's why I often make a point of explaining that this is not another zombie film, and that Trixie is actually a mix of multiple existing diseases (i.e. rabies, tetanus, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, and Ebola hemorrhagic fever) whenever it comes up in conversation.

@sickboy9496

7 жыл бұрын

Well, the upside to that is whenever anybody says that Danny Boyle reinvented "zombies" for 28 Days Later by creating "The Infected" you can just say that Romero did that first as well.

@FiercelyGold

7 жыл бұрын

Callum alexander The thing is Romero zombies are second generation zombies after the voodoo zombies. Really, Romero didnt consider them zombies at first anyways. He called them "ghouls". Since zombies are not a real thing, they can be different as they are in different stories. Some can run. Some can talk. Some have a heartbeat. What matters is they are no longer themselves. They usually can't be reasoned with and are dangerous. They are a threat to humanity because they are so different. And in theory, a world with only zombies can't exsist, so they are a threat to their own existence, but they don't know this like smartypants eltist vampires might. All zombies are fascinating because of their differences and similarities. They are bringers of death. They are disgusting. They (usually) have no morals. But they are still at the top of the food chain. Truly scary.

I think alot of people just thought it was another Zombie movie.

@Phurzt

6 жыл бұрын

Raziel77 to be fair it is another zombie movie. The real sad part is that zombie movies have been simultainiously top tier horror, and THE stereotype of bad horror.

@qweqqweq2090

4 жыл бұрын

I had a mechanic friend who watched it and still thought it was a zombie movie. I had to set him straight, they were clearly meth heads.

I love Timothy Olyphant, and the remake was AWESOME!!!😍😆

A horror remake that was actually good.

Timothy Olyphant is one of my favorite actors and has had an excellent career, yet people still don't know his name. ever since the move Go and then solidified with Deadwood, he's done nothing but great work (except Hitman).

@christopherdaniel5919

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man. I love Oliphant too. Except I loved his Hitman movie. Still watch it once a year.

@grubbygrubb7059

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherdaniel5919 I mean, it was ok. Just not much for him to do in it, acting wise.

Watching this in 2020... just hits differently.

never watched the original but i really liked the remake. Another remake that got it right in my opinion was 2004 Dawn Of The Dead

I love one reviewer's comment on Timothy's character. Best I can remember, he said something to the affect of "either the story was rushed, or his character was the sharpest character in horror movie history". "Russ? I we're in trouble".☺

hey before this gets buried man I just want to say I love your content. Its really inspired me to look deeper into every movie I watch. Keep up the good work!

My favorite character was the deputy. If they ever decide to follow up on this they could a parallel sequel, taking place at the same time but with the military perspective.

@parisgreen4600

3 жыл бұрын

Great idea, like Clint Eastwood did with "Flags of our Fathers" and then the Japanese side of the same story.

This film is another prime example that a remake can be good if enough work and care goes into them. I especially love the scene where they momentarily capture a soldier and we learn that the soldiers are just as scared as the people trying to survive.

All hail the crazy sweeping lady!

@njmfff

6 жыл бұрын

One of the best 70s exploitation scenes ever. Couldn't stop laughing after seeing it, but it's also brilliant scene - it shows that not everyone turned into killer mutants (like in remake), it showed that everyone went crazy in a different way. She sweeps, father tries to have sex with daughter because he thinks she's his dead wife, etc.

@crunchyfresco

5 жыл бұрын

\w/

Another great pick. I loved this and watched it twice back when I had Cinemax. Timothy Olyphant was great in this like he always is.

So many great scenes. Like when the guy who's sick visits the doctor. He answers her questions, but insists "I'm fine, just a little tired." A moment later, he says it again. It's a symptom of his mental decline but the doctor is distracted and doesn't catch it. Also the scene with the combine (harvesting machine) in the barn.

loved this movie, wish there was a sequel

I miss your old intro. The horribly choreographed fight scene where the soldier waits for the girl to palm strike him always made me laugh.

@jonnymarcia4403

7 жыл бұрын

Don't forget where the man spanks the other man on the ass

@conalcochranh3274

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonnymarcia4403 Class of 1999.

@user-jn1wm3tb8v

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

Even if it got lumped into being a zombie film, the Crazies is still one of my favorite movies. As "zombie movies" go, it's my favorite - instead of a film where people get turned into zombies overnight (Day of the Dead in 2008) we get a film that shows a town's population gradually change from being a simple small town to a town infested by nightmare and dread. People are seen changing slowly as the infection spreads through their bodies, starting at first by simple isolated cases of apparent insanity and dementia before being gradually changed to the ugly, monstrous, corroded-looking "crazies" we see by the second half of the film. That, IMO, is how a zombie movie SHOULD be made.

I always want to see the movie after watching one of these.

You just made me remeber this movie! I watched it when I was too young and I didn't know it was a Romero remake. Also here in Italy apparently both the original and the remake were called "La città verrà distrutta all'alba" ("The city will be destroyed at dawn") instead of "The Crazies", probably because a literal translation is kinda difficult. Anyway, thank you for the work you do in exploring both old movies and their remakes (like the remake of "The Thing"), I learned a lot from your videos.

~I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad.. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had~ Man, the Mad World song fit that trailer perfectly.

I still think it deserved a follow up.

It is amazing how lucky some people can be finding locations

Criminally underrated flick!

Loved this movie, never realised that it was a remake and thought it was the best horror movie of the year when it came out. Some scenes were truly terrifying

I renember loving the remake back at the time! I'm a sucker for his survival horror setting. I'm sure that you are as hype as I am to see The Void coming this April!

I actually really enjoyed the heck out of the Crazies and always love Olyphant. I have the DVD and I think I'll watch it today

I’m surprised there aren’t more pandemic 2020 comments on this video.

The part of the movie I really struck me, was the ending night scene. It looked exactly like what we see on those rare Midwest nights with moon and cloud. its just like day in the sky - but darker - and very white and blue. Anyway - You would know what I am describing if u ever saw a night like that. The thing is if u tried to take a picture of it, they never turn out to have the same look you see with your own eyes. They managed to capture that awesomeness in film, which I am not sure anyone else has managed to do, short of south pacific movies.

You know, I think I kind of would have liked to see things from the government/soldier's perspective. I've kind of grown tired of the trope of the Government automatically being Galactic Empire levels of evil. I would have liked to see how they were in a really bad situation and felt horrible about what they were doing, but were doing what was necessary to stop an outbreak that could kill millions.

@projectcyclops

7 жыл бұрын

If you haven't seen it, perhaps check out Steven Soderbergh's Contagion. It follows medical experts and government officials as they struggle to contain and cure the worldwide epidemic of a lethal virus. Although it's not a horror film, there is a lot of tension, and many of the characters do wrestle with their conscience's as they face impossibly difficult decisions. Excellent cast and great soundtrack too.

@MrEd8846

7 жыл бұрын

thats part of why i liked the Original so much. it wasnt so much of a "cleansing" as much as it was a "we need to find a cure".

Actually one of the few good remakes & this movie is genuinely scary, almost more than the original.

was hoping to find this on Netflix last night, didn't think many people knew how good this movie was imagine my surprise when I woke up to this on my notification, thank you Cecil 👌

I lived in the town that it was filmed in Iowa... it's a real small town called lenox Iowa and it was amazing when they were filming it... what's awesome is that they gave a lot of citizens a extra role and it was amazing... they filmed in lenox up until when they escape to the house in the middle of nowhere

In my opinion the 2010 version underperformed because people had two movies in mind that worked better: Dawn of the Dead (the Zack Synder remake) as a more classical zombie movie approach and 28 Days Later with the "people gone maaaaad"-theme. The Crazies seemed to stay inbetween the chairs and it wasn't original enough to get its own chair =) Just my 2 cents though.

You should make Exploring "8mm" a very good thriller from 1999 that was overlooked and underrated at the time and also feature one of the best performance of Nicolas Cage IMO. Also I think that the genre of the movie fits perfectly with most of movies you talk about in your Exploring Series.

@OberynTheRedViper

4 жыл бұрын

No. That remake sucked. The original was good. And Tesis (Thesis) was better as well.

i agree this remake is really underrated

Love these exploring videos!

A perfect getaway is a underrated movie in itself and it's based on a true story!

One of my favorites. I always wondered why people didnt enjoy this film

I've never seen the original. Will need to fix that. I did enjoy the remake though

I really do enjoy these Exploring series, please keep up the great work! The Crazies is an awesome movie!

I remember the only reason why I was hesitant to see the Remake was because they told you the whole Flippin story in the trailer. I specifically remember seeing the very end of the movie in one shot of the trailer and becoming irate that the marketing company would give away such a major spoiler before the movie was even released.

The remake was pretty good. I enjoyed it.

I loved this movie when it came out. I remember talking with my friends about it afterwards talking about how something like this could totally happen. Always hoped for a sequel too with the way it ended.

RiP George Romero

SPOILER ALERT:...I Personally got numb as fuck when Danielle Panabaker's character was killed...l really didn't care what happened after that...

@nosidezero

7 жыл бұрын

The fact that you typed "SPOILER ALERT" instantly earns my respect.

@TheGimpPimp1

7 жыл бұрын

Thank You...':-)

I quite enjoyed this movie. I saw it in theaters, one of the few theater experiences I remember from 2010. There was a couple two seats over from me and my buddy, a very large girl and a smallish girl. The large girl by the end of the movie looked to have swallowed her girlfriend as she was holding so tightly onto her, wrapping herself around her partner. She was terrified, it was pretty funny to glance over and see. You go onto RT and 56% audience, which means they didn't like the film as anything below 70 is shocking for an audience score. That's really bizarre to me but if I remember right, a lot of people thought it was a bit too by the numbers. Small town, good guy cop, loose cannon buddy, spooked but mildly competent wife, generally upbeat ending. I've watched it about three times now, and I can see why people would have issue there. If you told me to pick CARRIERS or this, I would pick Carriers any day of the week (however Carriers did even worse on RT, lmao). Better film all around. But if the option for both exists - and it does - there's no reason for this film to not also exist. It's like a zombie movie but ever so slightly more interesting, and that isn't enough for a lot of people. Those same people complain that movies are all gigantic budget messes but what can you do.

My buddy and I went and saw this in the cinema and was really impressed with it. He mentioned to me how this was really how the Resident Evil movie should have been..and honestly...I feel he is right.

Great exploring video you did on film The Crazies remake.

Thats what this was called. I saw this on cable years ago and I missed the first 10 minutes. Never knew what it was called. Good movie

This is a good film, I enjoyed it when I saw it at home. Tense and viscersal, smart lead characters (for once) and good visual FX.

Although you guys do not have a lot of subscribers, you are one of my favorite channels to listen to. Keep up the good work !

This was filmed close to my area and I happen to know a few friends who were extras and stand ins for the movie. The remake is extra special to me just because of that.

love you man .... i have binge watched almost every video

Highlight of my day watching your videos man

I really enjoyed the remake glad you did video on it. I was also surprised how lucky they got while filming.

This is a really good undervalued channel

Intro alone got me to subscribe, not to mention your immaculate breakdown on obscureish films. Please keep doing what youre doing!

I actually watched the movies back to back with my husband a few years ago. We liked how that it was a good remake. It wasn't just a complete redo, just with updated effects yet at the same time they didn't twist the movie into something that was crap and either PG-13 or just a pointless blood fest with an R- rating. I think i still prefer the original, but the remake is by no means a bad movie. It has some great acting in it and I liked it. If only more remakes would actually attempt to be good and not worry so much about making $500,000,000 in box office returns while being PG-13

This was very informative and a Awsome Review!

I saw that Ebola hunter

@GoodBadFlicks

7 жыл бұрын

had to sneak that in there :)

@ZZ-ss2rh

7 жыл бұрын

NICE!

It's about the closest medium to a Resident Evil 4 movie we will ever see.. Just like How the film" Hunted" was Basically Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater. At least when it came to the characters of The Boss and Snake... Mentor vs Student..

I'm glad some of us are fans of the original, the remake wasn't bad I can agree with you

In NC The Crazies was only featured in Art House Theatres and wasn't heavily promoted . I saw it because I worked for a theatre and I got in for free . ( I saw 78 new movies in 2010 . The Crazies was one of my favorites and a surprise small hit with Art House fans ( in Charlotte NC , not sure how it performed outside the state

I watched it because it was a Timothy Olyphant movie. It was very good. Even the pacing builds up the tension.

The most pleasant voice of all movie reviewers on youtube. And great content

@GoodBadFlicks

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Macon, Ga for the win. I was there when they were Filming in The Fountain Car Wash . But there was very heavy editing because the car wash was just a mile down the street from where little Richie played his guitar for money.

Please do an Exploring on "Hot Rod"

I miss the old intro lol great vid as always

Corona: Them's rookie numbers! You gotta bump them up!

I loved this movie. Also incredibly clever marketing

i love the original movie, it's just great - dark, serious, weird, ... perfect. the remake is really very mainstream / hollywood / default horror, in comparison, but it's still pretty good. :)

I love you exploring series

Also your videos are so informative, I fucking love it. I dont show up on everything but when you post something that peaks my interest, Im always stoked.

As a HUGE Romero fan, I actually enjoyed the remake more.

I love this movie, but I'm not a big fan of the ending.

@swiggydswirl330

3 жыл бұрын

The ending was pretty predictable tho

Probably ought to check this one out in the future. This, like the Dawn of the Dead remake or many other 70s/80s horror remakes, seemed as if it dropped what I loved about the original movies and amplified those aspects I didn't like so much. The cutting between the citizens trying to survive, the army, and the scientists aiming to find a cure was what made me fall in love with the original The Crazies (a prime example for Romero's superb editing), so I never even bothered with the remake since it got rid of all of that. It's not that I think that it's unreasonable to remake The Crazies with a higher budget than what Romero had because some parts of the original can be called kind of sloppy, due to its independent nature and budgetary constraints.

@Johnlindsey289

4 жыл бұрын

Well the Dawn of the Dead and Night of the Living Dead remakes were well done and worthy remakes to classics. Hills Have Eyes and Maniac are good remakes too. The original Crazies is one of my least fave romero films and is an improvement over the original. What about remaking 50s films like House on Haunted Hill and The Blob?

Highly underrated movie. Definitely enjoyed it.

Both The Crazies AND a perfect getaway are amazing

Now that's some pretty efficient film making. Today, location scouting means finding your sweeping vistas in New Zealand, and the rest we can shoot in Pinewood or wherever the local government will kick back the most. The $500k scout budget goes to helicopter rides and booze.

I do remember watching this film but I'm not really sure what to make of the film, maybe I need to watch it again.

Thank you for another great video and I thoroughly enjoyed the remake but I own both this film and the original on DVD.

I have only just seen "The Crazies" recently and I have to say I really enjoyed it. I have not watched the remake but I will give it a go this Wednesday when I am off as it does look good. Thanks for the wonderful review.

I need a review on "Cube" please grant my wish :D

Please make "Exploring The Ruins"! Great vid btw

Fans of the comic Crossed should enjoy this.

@pvtrichter8816

7 жыл бұрын

now you got me curious about something else , this is a prime example of remake done right ! it pay a fond homage to the original and yes is still terrifying in it's own right !! enjoy bruv!!

@OberynTheRedViper

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, not enough Horse Cock.

I love how a lot of the stuff used is out of business or left behind

One of my favorite movies to watch. Doesn't really get old.

Awesome video as always man. This is one of my all time favorite zombie-ish films.

I really enjoy your videos. How much time does it take to compile all the info to make one of these? Good commentary lots of information and well put together. One of the best KZread videos I've seen about movies. I'm not just talkin this one I'm talking about all your videos

@GoodBadFlicks

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It depends. The average is about 2 months. I have had some that have taken closer to 6 months and some that I've worked on/off over the course of years. (mostly because they were hard to dig up info on or they were hard to find anyone in the production who wanted to talk about it)

Each movie reviewed by you sir, is spot on with my thoughts. Kinda sad a vision that was meant for better ends up altered so much, it becomes a franken film. By directors, last minute revisions, and approvals.

Ah, H1N1. How nostalgic.