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The Crazies
2010 101 min United Arab Emirates, United States of America R 18+
★6.5
Mystery, Horror, Action
Director: Breck Eisner
🎭 Based on
«The Crazies»
Trailers
Description
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Budget:
$20M
US Gross:
$39.12M
Worldwide:
$54.96M
Starring
Radha Mitchell
Actor
Timothy Olyphant
Actor
Danielle Panabaker
Actor
Awards
11 nominations total
Key opinion
The Crazies (2010) is widely regarded as a successful and surprisingly effective remake that modernizes its source material with a tense, stripped-down approach. While critics and audiences occasionally clash on the film's originality and the depth of its script, it is generally praised for its strong central performances and its ability to elevate the infected subgenre beyond typical mindless zombie tropes.
| Acting | Timothy Olyphant’s charismatic and grounded screen presence anchors the film as a capable sheriff. | |
| Originality | The infected are effectively portrayed as intelligent, strategic threats rather than mindless, shambling reanimated corpses. | |
| Theme | The military’s cold, bureaucratic approach to the crisis adds a layer of thematic weight that challenges the morality of those enforcing the quarantine. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay is praised for its efficient, suspenseful pacing, though some find the plot beats and character developments overly predictable. | |
| Ending | The ending receives mixed reactions, with some viewers finding it anticlimactic or reliant on genre filler, while others find it unsettling. |