Getting ready for THE CRAZIES

Obsessed With Film saw Breck Eisner's remake of the legendary George A. Romero's best work outside of the zombie genre - the virus (not zombie!!) movie The Crazies - at a press screening on Monday, but as damned usual our mouths have been sewn shut by those stupid studio embargoes. Mike Edwards who saw the movie for us, is so paranoid about a military response much like the one from the original, that he won't even tell me what he thought of it for fear of being hunted down and terminated on the spot. We can't review it till next Friday - the day of it's release. The Crazies, as I say above, is a Non-zombie movie - because the bad guys here are still living. They are mindless killing machines that have been infected - yes - but their heart still beats and they don't want to feed on your body. They just want to kill you.

I love the original which I saw for the first time only a few years ago and it's a great movie, only really limited in scope by it's budget (but with Romero, history says that might be a good thing). Eisner has quite cleverly attempted to catch onto the 28 Days Later wave and outside of Timothy Olyphant (who would have been fine as a supporting character, but not the lead), I think the acting talent is good - there's two great Scream queens in this one (Radha Mitchell from Silent Hill, and Friday the 13th'sDanielle Panabaker). Here's hoping for a smart, intense, claustrophobic, small town apocalypse movie. The P.R. guys behind The Crazies have sent me a link to http://makeyourfriendscrazy.co.uk - which is a smart piece of viral marketing for you to upload a photo of a friend to see what they would look like as an infected crazie. We did it with OWF's Simon Gallagher, and the result below is cool...