THE CRAZIES Trailer

The remake of George Romero’s classic THE CRAZIES now has a trailer via Apple, released by Overture Films. Seeing everybody around you suddenly go mental and murderous can be a scary thing but what I love about this trailer is that nearing the end, it carries the rendition of Mad World by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules. Hearing that balld in the midst of all that craziness is kind of soothing. Reminds me of the trailer for THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT Remake which carried a slower, calmer version of the song Sweet Child Of Mine.

David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) is sheriff of Ogden Marsh, a picture-perfect American town with happy, law-abiding citizens. But one night, one of them comes to a school baseball game with a loaded shotgun, ready to kill. Another man burns down his own house…after locking his wife and young son in a closet inside. Within days, the town has transformed into a sickening asylum; people who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives have now become depraved, blood-thirsty killers, hiding in the darkness with guns and knives. Sheriff Dutton tries to make sense of what’s happening as the horrific, nonsensical violence escalates. Something is infecting the citizens of Ogden Marsh… with insanity. Now complete anarchy reigns as one by one the townsfolk succumb to an unknown toxin and turn sadistically violent. In an effort to keep the madness contained, the government uses deadly force to close off all access and won’t let anyone in or out – even those uninfected. The few still sane find themselves trapped: Sheriff Dutton; his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell); Becca (Danielle Panabaker), an assistant at the medical center; and Russell (Joe Anderson), Dutton’s deputy and right-hand man. Forced to band together, an ordinary night becomes a horrifying struggle for survival as they do their best to get out of town alive.

THE CRAZIES opens February 26th, 2010