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THE CRAZIES

1973 US HMDB
March 16, 1973

The military attempts to contain a manmade virus causing death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.

Cast

Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones, Lynn Lowry, Lloyd Hollar, Richard Liberty, Richard France, Harry Spillman, Bill Thunhurst, Stephen Liska
Horror Azione Fantascienza

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

A military plane crashes near a rural locality, releasing an experimental bacteriological substance that infiltrates the town's water reserves. Almost all the inhabitants of the area contract a virus that drives them mad and turns them into bloodthirsty killers. The army arrives on the scene to try to control the situation... After his great debut with the legendary "Night of the Living Dead", Romero returns to the theme of urban chaos, of violence that suddenly erupts, contaminating everything and everyone with a fairly decent film halfway between horror and drama. A film with a rather original subject, which alternates some good moments of suspense (like the sequence of the old lady who pierces a soldier with a knitting needle before calmly returning to her knitting) with others excessively slow and which, overall, proves rather heavy and excessively long.