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Now streaming on: The Crazies is a perfectly competent genre film in a genre that has exhausted its interest for me, the Zombie Film. It provides such a convenient storytelling device: Large numbers of mindless zombies lurch toward the camera as the hero wreaks savage destruction; they can be quickly blown away, although not without risk and occasional loss of life. When sufficient zombies have been run through, it s time for a new dawn.
I know there can be good Zombie Films. I ve seen some: Dawn Of The Dead (1979), 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead and so on. If I saw another one like those, I d like it. But all depends on good living characters, and a director with something new to say about zombies, who are a subject easily exhausted.