History Film / TheCrazies2010

* BerserkButton: Do NOT threaten David's wife. You won't live very long to see sunlight ''[[YouAreAlreadyDead ever again]]''. Least until you get a [[spoiler:knife through your throat.]]

* CompressedAdaptation: The remake streamlines its plot by cutting the scientist/government storyline, allowing it to further flesh out the story of the townsfolk.

* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Sheriff Dutten gives Rory, the first infectee, multiple warnings before finally shooting him, and is visibly devastated upon discovering the shot was fatal.
* DoubleTap: Russell finishes off two Crazies by shooting their twitching corpses, much to the horror of his companions. He attempts to justify it, that he was "just making sure" but everyone in the audience should know that this is the first clue that Russell has the 'Trixie' Virus, and will soon go nuts.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Everyone David and Judy knew is now dead since the government [[NukeEm nuked their home town]] after indiscriminately killing EVERYONE inside. Even when they escape to Cedar Rapids, a satellite catches sight of them, and the military initiates the same containment protocol once more. TheStinger then shows a Crazy appearing on the news, so the Trixie Virus somehow got out despite the military's efforts. According to [[AllThereInTheScript the original script]], this is because David is infected.]]

* HopeSpot: After David and Russel defy orders and shut off the water flow that is infecting people, it seems like there's a chance things will get under contorl. Then the military shows up to put everyone in a quarantine camp and most of the people left running wild are Crazies worse than the ones seen before.

* PunchClockVillain: Billy Babcock, one of the soldiers who was briefly held hostage by David, Russell, Judy and Becca before he is released by them, is one due to admitting that he [[NotWhatISignedOnFor did not sign up to take innocent unarmed lives]], realizing they were lied to about wearing a gas mask to avoid death, which apparently does not happen to Babcock and apologizing for what happened to their town. In return for being shown mercy, Babcock doesn't rat out on them to his platoon as they moved out.

* MadeOfIron: At one point, the heroes witness a couple of infected teenagers using trash dumpsters as punching bags, apparently without breaking their hands.

* DamselInDistress: Any time David leaves Judy alone for more than two minutes, she ends up facing a crazy and needing rescuing. She beats the shit out of a crazy in the scene wit the no-touch car wash, though, and later in the big rig. Pretty much everyone but Russell qualifies as a '[Pronoun] in Distress' at one point or another. It's that kind of movie.

[[caption-width-right:259:[[TagLine Fear thy neighbour.]]]]

''The Crazies (2010)'' is a 2010 American zombie horror film directed by Breck Eisner, written by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright, and produced and distributed by Overture Films and Participant Media. It is TheRemake of ''Film/{{The Crazies|1973}}'', and stars Creator/TimothyOlyphant, Creator/RadhaMitchell, Joe Anderson, and Creator/DaniellePanabaker.

The residents of Ogden Marsh go about their daily lives, but everything changes when a man walks into a crowded baseball game with a shotgun at hand, silent and stoic. When he's shot down, it seems to be over, but the town's sheriff David (Olyphant) and town doctor Judy (Mitchell) realize that a biological agent is responsible for turning those infected into cold, calculating, emotionless, and violent killers. And things go FromBadToWorse when they realize that the military arriving in town has no intentions of saving any residents, ''only killing them all'', making escape a precarious task.

* AdaptationalWimp: The remake's version of the Trixie Virus in this movie is less dangerous than the one in the 1973 original. For one, the remake Crazies have a maximum lifespan of two days whereas the original Crazies had no such expiration date if they survived the initial two-day incubation. Furthermore, the remake Crazies are more ObviouslyEvil and show noticeable symptoms such as skin lesions and unusual eye color whereas the original Crazies [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse looked no different from the uninfected]] and thus blended in better with the healthy population.
* AllThereInTheManual: The motion comic showed not only that the chemical also infected animals, but also how that happened. It also showed how the pilot died and how Rory got infected - in fact, he was the first to try to raise a fuss after witnessing his pigs go berserk and saw the stuff in the water.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Done for pretty much the entire town, but this trope can be mainly attributed with Deputy Russell Clank. He starts out as the one that helps David the most and even saves his life on several occasions. However, as the film progresses, it becomes pretty obvious that Russell is losing his mind, becoming increasingly unstable to the point where he murders someone in an instant MoodWhiplash. Fortunately, he's able to hold it together long enough to help our main characters escape, sacrificing himself so that they can live.

''The Crazies (2010)'' is a 2010 American zombie horror film directed by Breck Eisner, written by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright, and produced and distributed by Overture Films and Participant Media. It is TheRemake of ''Film/{{The Crazies|1973}}'', and stars Creator/TimothyOlyphant, Creator/RadhaMitchell, Creator/JoeAnderson, and Creator/DaniellePanabaker.

** Played with in the 2010 remake in that the grunts [[spoiler:have been lied to -- they were told that everyone was infected regardless of appearance]], and it's ambiguous as to whether the slain civilians they find in the end are due to them becoming infected or not.

* ForTheEvulz: Subverted. It strongly appears initially that the Military is murdering and imprisoning civilians for no reason other than they're the BigBad Military, but it's later revealed that the soldiers have all been told that every civilian in the area is violently infected, whether or not they appear to be at first, and killing them is purely done in self-defense.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: While the heroes are trying to figure out how to escape from quarantine, a seemingly uninfected group of men led by someone named Tom Ellis avoid the roundup of the townspeople, get some guns, and drive through the fence, allowing a lot of people to escape. They are only seen briefly, and from a distance, and most of the group is shot within seconds.

''The Crazies (2010)'' is a 2010 American zombie horror film directed by Breck Eisner, written by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright, and produced and distributed by Overture Films and Participant Media. It is TheRemake of ''Film/{{The Crazies|1973}}'', and stars Creator/TimothyOlyphant, Creator/RadhaMitchell, Joe Anderson, and Creator/DaniellePanabaker.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Judy.]]

** The Black SUV driver who phootgraphs the townspeople for the government later gets an InfoDump scene, though the person inside the SUV seen when we first see the car.

* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: [[spoiler:Russell]] lives long enough to tell the government [[spoiler:"Fuck you for what you've done."]]
* ForTheEvulz: Subverted. It strongly appears initially that the Military is murdering and imprisoning civilians for no reason other than they're the BigBad Military, but it's later revealed that the soldiers have all been told that every civilian in the area is violently infected, whether or not they appear to be at first, and killing them is purely done in self-defence.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The happy "Bring Me Sunshine" by Willie Nelson is played during the credits, even though the disease is still spreading.

* TheVirus: A bio-weapon derived from the same family of viruses as [[TheDreaded rabies]], which over the course of several days makes its infected hosts descend into homicidal mania and then makes them go from looking normal to gaining freaky eyes and wormy grey skin. The Trixie virus' infected victims can ''crudely'' mimic human behaviour but it should become clear to any common-sensed person within 30 seconds that they're behaving off.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Everyone David and Judy knew is now dead since the government [[NukeEm nuked their home town]] after indiscriminately killing EVERYONE inside. And when they escape to a new town? The same containment protocol will happen.]]

** The old Ford LTD police car that the group attempts to escape in is a ''1973'' model, the same year that [[Film/TheCrazies the original movie was released]].