The Crazies

Until the advent of home video, this excellent George Romero effort went virtually unseen by the public because of its rotten theatrical distribution and total failure at the box office.

Reminiscent of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, the story centers on an Army cargo plane carrying an untested chemical warfare virus that crashes near the small town of Evans City, Pennsylvania. Since the virus--which causes its victims either to die instantly or to become homicidal maniacs--is top-secret and has no cure, the government dispatches the Army to isolate the spread of the virus by quarantining the entire town. Without warning, soldiers dressed in white, bacteria-proof ...