The Crazies (1973)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: George A. Romero

Writers: George A. Romero, Paul McCollough

Cinematographer: S. William Hinzman

Composer: Bruce Roberts

Cast: Lane Carroll, W.G. McMillan, Harold Wayne Jones, Lloyd Hollar, Lynn Lowry, Richard Liberty, Richard France, Harry Spillman, Will Disney

Romero’s cynical, allegorical tale – an indictment of Nixon/Kissinger-era American politics, depicting a small town under martial law following the accidental release of a biological weapon that leaves its victims in the throes of madness – is a bleakly entertaining and thought-provoking film, though it suffers in comparison to his Dead films. Iain.Stott

Remade as The Crazies (2010).