Guessed the year without even a moment of hesitation.
Elephant in the room time here, I got a new GF and she lives a ways away and even when I'm not busy with her I have not been in the mood to watch movies. I had two entire months of basically watching only partial eps of MST3K, and now I'm finally watching some things here and there, even if it was only on in the background like this movie here.
The Crazies starts with it's alternate title of "Code Name: Trixie" and it was directed by George A Romero. This film was in a way Romero's return to horror, after making Night of the Living Dead he did a comedy and a drama, and though this has comedy elements, it is mostly suspense and/or horror lite.
The plot of this one is that there is a government leak of a new virus into the local water supply - a virus which either will kill you or make you go insane and start killing people. It's sort of like an almost remake of the idea of Night of the Living Dead except with an explanation this time. Mobs of people after the main characters either way, just one has an explanation and one did not.
Romero was always trying to become a real director throught his career. I'm not slamming him right here or anything, but you can see that for all his stepping into other genres, he never escaped the horror genre, and after about 1980 never did much else outside of that. But one thing he did return to was comedy, firmly keeping that as part of this movies. Which... he regretfully didn't do well, as exemplified here.
It ain't funny. I am not even totally sure it's supposed to be, except it obviosuly is. Truly though, it is too dumb to be scary and not well written enough to be funny, so instead it's kind of just "there". Tuning it off would be no fault of yours. So, I'll give it like a 2.
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