The Crazies
Why are the good people dying?
Science FictionHorrorActionsmall townbiological weaponquarantinepennsylvania, usamurderdiseasescientistepidemicdeathmilitary policevirusplague
A bleak, paranoia-soaked plague film that uses biological catastrophe to explore the breakdown of social order and the horror of institutional failure.
The military attempts to contain a manmade virus causing death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
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