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The Crazies (2010)

★ 6.3 · 2,262 ratings on TMDB

Fear thy neighbor.

The Crazies poster★ 6.3

Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.

DirectorBreck Eisner
CastBrett Rickaby, Christie Lynn Smith, Danielle Panabaker, Glenn Morshower, Gregory Sporleder, Joe Anderson
GenresAction, Horror, Mystery
The emergence reading

The Crazies keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E4/E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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