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The Crazies (1973)

★ 6.1 · 420 ratings on TMDB

Why are the good people dying?

The Crazies poster★ 6.1

The military attempts to contain a manmade virus causing death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.

DirectorGeorge A. Romero
CastBill Thunhurst, Harold Wayne Jones, Harry Spillman, Lane Carroll, Lloyd Hollar, Lynn Lowry
GenresAction, Horror, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

The Crazies keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing infection, military, survival, authority, panic.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

[REC]² (2009)E8 · authority, infectionUniversal Soldier: The Return (1999)E8 · authority, militaryColony (2026)E10 · authority, infectionFlushed Away (2006)E8/E10 · authority, survivalBattle Royale (2000)E8/E10 · authority, survivalAutomata (2014)E8/E10 · authority, survival

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · authority, survivalStarship Troopers: Invasion (2012)E6/E11 · rare rung · military, survivalOoops! Noah Is Gone... (2015)E6/E9 · rare rung · authority, survivalSpace Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)E11/E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, survivalWatership Down (1978)E9/E11 · authority, survival

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Dawn of the Dead (1978)dir. George A. RomeroDay of the Dead (1985)dir. George A. RomeroNight of the Living Dead (1968)dir. George A. RomeroThe Crazies (2010)Lynn LowryFlight of the Navigator (1986)Richard LibertyCat People (1982)Lynn Lowry