I'm real excited for this @bloghomework from @missy, @lyxzen, and @rambo because not only do I get to talk about my favorite horror movie, but I found the full version of it on YouTube while looking for the trailer 😜
The Crazies (2010)
IMDB description: About the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply.
I saw this movie in theaters when it first came out, because the trailer drew me in (thanks to Donnie Darko, I'm a sucker for anything that has Mad World in it), and I had a friend in college who was from the town over where it was filmed in Iowa (there's another location or two as well, of course, but mostly done up there) and he helped build up the hype for me. This movie is one reason why I will always [try to] sit in the top row of the movie theater. I'm very active during horror films, because I get caught up in my own head and imagine myself in the situation, so I'll usually be the person yelling at someone for being stupid enough to pick up the phone, split up from the group, fuck in the woods, or throws a possible weapon of defense away for no reason whatsoever. But, when it comes to the violence and deaths, I'll give a shudder or so depending on the character and/or way they die. However, never have I felt so fucking scared for my own genitalia or life than I have during this movie.
After a scuffle with the coroner after he comes down with the crazy virus, our main character, sheriff David Dutton, thinks that all is well and done. But he is so wrong. Not only is the saw blade the coroner used to attacked David still running, but this motherfucker just fights its motherfuckin way out his dead ass hands and makes a beeline for David's motherfuckin baby maker. I literally stood up in my seat in the theater (back row though, so no one but my roommate at the time saw) all while screaming. Of course it couldn't have gone in any other direction because of the rules of horror movies, but I've never felt more concerned about a mans junk more in my life. I get anxiety just thinking about it, still. I would add the scene in gif form here for you all to suffer as well, but you're saved with the lack of it being on Google.
This poor town is just fucked. These poor people not only have to live in BFE Iowa, but come to find out,
When you contaminate the towns water supply and literally make everyone in the town go mad, you're gonna have a bad time. Of course the solution ends up being
because they had a Shaggy moment.
This movie is a combination of the two elements horror movies need: psychological warfare and the horrible violence people are able to inflict on another. Woo! Although violence is a staple in the horror genre, I fully believe a horror movie can forego any type of violence or excessive gore and still fuck you up by messing solely with your mind. But a good combination of the two make for the perfect night in with a blunt object hidden underneath your pillow, just in case.
I haven't seen the original that came out in 1973, but I would love to check it out. Even though I love horror movies, there are a lot I haven't seen. This is mostly due to the fact that I haven't a lot of movies in general, but I'm missing out on a fuckton of classics.
RUNNER UPS: Cry_Wolf (2005), Halloween (1978), Saw series, Hostel (2005), V/H/S (2012), Candyman (1992)
xoxo, Beats
