The Crazies

I would have liked this movie a bit more if the story would have unfolded quicker.

 

The small township of Ogden Marsh, IA is pretty proud of their baseball team.  A good part of the town shows up for opening day and it's a good thing that the sheriff is there, because a man with a shotgun shows up and disrupts the game.  The sheriff tries to talk the gun out of the man's hand, but conversations end when the sheriff shoots him dead.

 

Three hunters come across a body attached to a parachute out in the woods.  After the discovery, things in the town change dramatically.  One guy locks his wife and son in their house, then sets it on fire.  The coroner has sewn shut the mouths and eyes of several people in the autopsy lab, one not dead yet, and he also tries to kill the sheriff with a bone saw.

 

Now the fun begins.  Citizens of the town are relocated to a tent city where they are divided into fenced in areas.  A truck plows into one of the fences and the passengers of the truck start unloading on the guards, starting a riot where lots of people escape.  This goes on and on for a while.

 

It's not until much later when the sheriff, sheriff's wife, and deputy interogate an official that knows something about all of this.  A biological weapon, designed to destabalize a population was accidently lost and discharged in the area.  The incubation of the weapon is 48 hours, you either die or you don't have it.

 

The only two survivors are the sheriff and his wife, and they are on their way to Cedar Rapids, IA.  But they are being tracked, and this might happen all over again.

 

I give this movie 2 1/2 out of five biological weapons.