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.
