{"id":5154,"date":"2016-12-27T18:43:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T23:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5154"},"modified":"2024-01-10T19:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T00:09:41","slug":"the-crazies-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5154","title":{"rendered":"The Crazies-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Crazies-2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Breck Eisner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #568<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/70111794.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5155\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/70111794-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/70111794-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/70111794.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed December 27, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Crazies (2010) is an example of a very rare instance of a remake (especially in the horror genre) being better than the original (Cape Fear also comes to mind).<\/p>\n<p>Despite the original film being made in 1973, a wonderful time for creative film-making, I was not such a fan.<\/p>\n<p>The remake is more slick and stylized, but I think it works well and makes the film an above-average effort.<\/p>\n<p>There are many thrills during The Crazies and jump-out-of-your-seat scares (car wash scene), and I may never look through a keyhole again!<\/p>\n<p>I felt tense watching several scenes and I genuinely did not know what was going to come next, which is quite an achievement for the modern horror genre.<\/p>\n<p>I love the heartland, small town, middle of nowhere elements. A feeling of isolation and vulnerability is apparent and a must for successful horror.<\/p>\n<p>The acting is above average for a horror flick, though, let&#8217;s not kid ourselves- who watches horror films for the Shakespearean acting?<\/p>\n<p>This film was sort of a cross between 28 Days Later (2002) and Night of the Living Dead (1968) but set in mid-western surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>A must for fans of modern horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crazies-2010 Director Breck Eisner Starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell Scott&#8217;s Review #568 Reviewed December 27, 2016 Grade: B+ The Crazies (2010) is an example of a very rare instance of a remake (especially in the horror genre) being better than the original (Cape Fear also comes to mind). Despite the original film being made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Crazies-2010<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,3014,13,2054,3015],"tags":[270,3016,248,2057,3017],"class_list":["post-5154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-movie-reviews","category-breck-eisner","category-horror-films","category-radha-mitchell","category-timothy-olyphant","tag-2010-movie-reviews","tag-breck-eisner","tag-horror-films","tag-radha-mitchell","tag-timothy-olyphant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5154"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19773,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions\/19773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}