"The Crazies" (2010)

Yes, it's a remake of a George Romero movie.
By the way, Romero's brain is amazing. He saw the need for post-apocalyptic insanity and filled that void. And it did it really intelligently. Also, his distrust for government and military.

This movie isn't a shot by shot remake. Like when Zack Snyder did "Dawn Of The Dead." It is the sense of the original but with the gravity of today's world. Sort of. More of a 50's nostalgia film. I am convinced this movie will be discovered years later and appreciated for what it is. It's like a atomic age paranoia comic come to life.

I scanned this movie years ago, and knew very little about it. And didn't really watch it when it first came out. For some reason, it resonates now more than before. Because of the freakishness of how we can easily fall into mob mentality. Even in a small town. Romero knew this part of humanity. That we do our best to maintain the norm, but in an insane world, we also tend to lose our own sanity. The way we turn on each during Ferguson's riots. Or have such civil unrest during an outbreak of Ebola. The paranoia amps up when Syrian refugees are thrown into our population. And so forth.

What we don't understand is when people we are close to, with no explanation, turn against each other. In fact there is a quote in the movie where a man, desperate to find his wife tells a man running for his life "I'll deal with finding my wife, I'm not going to ask why you abandoned yours." This is the core of who we are when panic takes hold. The only issue I had with it, is that it should've been a little longer. To fill in the time when people's civility towards one another collapses.

The title is a bit...quaint for the darkness that follows. Even though it made a nice profit, I think this movie will be re-discovered down the road. A dark, interesting look at society breaking down.