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| Image: The Crazies |
After offering up his bleak vision of societal apocalypse in Night of the Living Dead, Romero turned his attention to the brute force of a government-controlled military power in The Crazies. Martial Law is declared in a small rural American town after a virus breaks out which transforms the citizens into rabid killers. Given that the film was released during the increasingly unpopular Vietnam conflict, The Crazies' vision of military might raining down on an isolated rural community lent the film a potent metaphorical punch.
'The Crazies speaks more radically about the American love-hate relationship with authority than any film of the Nixon era' - Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice.
