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They probably didn't mean Louisville, Kentucky. There are 12 other Louisvilles in the USA.
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** [[spoiler:It is not revealed how the Trixie virus reached Louisville, Kentucky from Evans City, Pennsylvania.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: After the ColdOpen, the first characters to appear on screen are David, Judy, and Clank with Colonel Peckem and Dr. Watts making their debut much later. [[spoiler:It's {{downplayed}} since the movie devotes plenty of screen time on the Evans City protagonists' escape from the military, but Peckem and Watts clearly have the more important objective of finding a cure for the Trixie virus. Indeed, the ending focuses on Peckem, who leaves to manage a new outbreak in Kentucky.]]
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** Similar to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c Thích Quảng Đức]], the priest [[DrivenToSuicide sets himself on fire]] to protest the military occupation.
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** Similar to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c Thích Quảng Đức]], Đức, the priest [[DrivenToSuicide sets himself on fire]] to protest the military occupation.
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** The Trixie virus itself plays with the idea of a HatePlague. Most people infected by Trixie turn into homicidal killers, but some of the Crazies merely regress in maturity and don't violently lash out.
** A common criticism of infected zombies, especially the ones inflicted with the HatePlague, is how they solely attack healthy humans but [[NoZombieCannibals conveniently never turn on one another]]. A general HandWave is that the virus gives the zombies the instinct to not attack each other, but in any case, none of this applies to the Crazies, who all have their own allegiances and motives. This means that Crazies will attack other Crazies and even cooperate with uninfected people because almost all of the Crazies are unaware that they are infected and assume there is nothing wrong with them.
** A common criticism of infected zombies, especially the ones inflicted with the HatePlague, is how they solely attack healthy humans but [[NoZombieCannibals conveniently never turn on one another]]. A general HandWave is that the virus gives the zombies the instinct to not attack each other, but in any case, none of this applies to the Crazies, who all have their own allegiances and motives. This means that Crazies will attack other Crazies and even cooperate with uninfected people because almost all of the Crazies are unaware that they are infected and assume there is nothing wrong with them.
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** The Trixie virus itself plays with the idea of a HatePlague. Most people infected by Trixie turn into homicidal killers, but some of the Crazies merely regress in intellectual maturity and don't violently lash out.
** A common criticism of infected zombies, especially the ones inflicted with the HatePlague, is how they solely attack healthy humans but [[NoZombieCannibals conveniently never turn on one another]]. A general HandWave is that the virus gives the zombies the instinct to not attack each other, but in any case, none of this applies to the Crazies, whoall themselves have their own allegiances no qualms in attacking and motives. This means that killing fellow Crazies. Additionally, the Crazies still retain their former personalities and motives, so they will attack other Crazies and ally with close friends, even cooperate with uninfected people because almost all of those that are healthy individuals. Most importantly, the Crazies are unaware that they themselves are infected and assume there since the Trixie Virus is nothing wrong with them. a MindVirus that solely affects the target's mental capacities.
** A common criticism of infected zombies, especially the ones inflicted with the HatePlague, is how they solely attack healthy humans but [[NoZombieCannibals conveniently never turn on one another]]. A general HandWave is that the virus gives the zombies the instinct to not attack each other, but in any case, none of this applies to the Crazies, who
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*** {{Downplayed|Trope}} for David. [[spoiler:After Judy dies, he becomes catatonic due to the trauma or the virus. It's implied that he is one of the rare characters immune to the virus, but the doctors don't bother checking to confirm if that indeed is the case.]]
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*** {{Downplayed|Trope}} for David. [[spoiler:After Judy dies, he becomes silent either because he wants to spite the government for killing his girlfriend or because he caught the Trixie virus and is now catatonic due to the trauma or the virus.as a result. It's implied that he is one of the rare characters immune to the virus, but the doctors don't bother checking to confirm if that indeed is the case.]]
** Similar to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c Thích Quảng Đức]], the priest [[DrivenToSuicide sets himself on fire]] to protest the military occupation.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Dr. Watts is killed and the cure smashed in a fight between soldiers (who assume Watts is infected and try to force him into a quarantined area) and the infected. Trixie had already spread beyond the town before the events of the film and infected a city. The one character who is immune keeps silent about it out of spite.]]
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* EvilArmy: Played straight from the view of the townspeople. Subverted by showing {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s acting under conditions of great stress, limited time, information and resources, and idiotic restrictions from higher authority.
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* EvilArmy: Played straight from the view of the townspeople. Subverted by showing {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s acting under conditions of great stress, stress; limited time, information information, and resources, resources; and idiotic restrictions from higher authority.
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Dr. Watts is killed and the cure smashed in a fight between soldiers (who assume Watts is infected and try to force him into a quarantined area) and the infected. Trixie already spread beyond the town before the events of the film and infected a city. David, who is TheImmune, keeps silent about his immunity out of spite. However, the scientists did find a rhesus monkey immune to Trixie, and it is likely the scientists can figure out a cure if they study Watts' experimentation or if David finally decides to reveal his immunity.]]
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* ScienceIsBad: The core of an argument between Colonel Peckhem and Dr. Watts. Peckhem accuses Watts and his fellow scientists of (incorrectly) assuring the military that the Trixie virus was 100% benign; Watts counters that the actual figure was a bit less than that -- based on standards set ''by the military.''
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* ScienceIsBad: The core of an argument {{Discussed}} between Colonel Peckhem and Dr. Watts. Peckhem accuses Watts and his fellow scientists of (incorrectly) assuring the military that the Trixie virus was 100% benign; Watts counters that the actual figure was a bit less than that -- based on standards set ''by the military.''
** The movie also has a DeconstructedCharacterArchetype of TheImmune. [[spoiler:David may be immune to the Trixie Virus, but none of his friends are, which leaves him the last man standing after the soldiers kill off his infected companions. This leads to him keeping his immunity a secret out of contempt.]]
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* YourHeadAsplode: Happens to a [[GasMaskMooks Gas Masked Mook]].
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* YourHeadAsplode: Happens to a [[GasMaskMooks Gas Masked Mook]].{{Gas Mask Mook|s}}.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Since people infected with the Trixie virus become delirious and homicidal, the army assumes that anyone behaving mindlessly is a "crazy". However, Dr. Watts notes that this doesn't rule out the possibility that some of the crazies are actually uninfected people panicking in response to the military takeover.
-->'''Dr. Watts:''' The whole thing's insane! How can you tell who's infected and who isn't?
** Throughout the movie, the townspeople revolt against the army, which results in multiple battles between the two sides. While the audience can easily pick out a couple of rebels as obviously infected (such as the woman sweeping the grass with a broom while following the others), it is ambiguous if the other rebels are infected too.
** As a nurse, Judy gets an antibiotics injection, presumably giving her body a better chance of fighting off the virus. [[spoiler:However, in the climax, Judy starts acting erratically; whether this is due to her pregnancy or the virus is not made clear since she dies before David can verify.]]
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} for David. [[spoiler:After Judy dies, he becomes catatonic due to the trauma or the virus. It's implied that he is one of the rare characters immune to the virus, but the doctors don't bother checking to confirm if that indeed is the case.]]
-->'''Dr. Watts:''' The whole thing's insane! How can you tell who's infected and who isn't?
** Throughout the movie, the townspeople revolt against the army, which results in multiple battles between the two sides. While the audience can easily pick out a couple of rebels as obviously infected (such as the woman sweeping the grass with a broom while following the others), it is ambiguous if the other rebels are infected too.
** As a nurse, Judy gets an antibiotics injection, presumably giving her body a better chance of fighting off the virus. [[spoiler:However, in the climax, Judy starts acting erratically; whether this is due to her pregnancy or the virus is not made clear since she dies before David can verify.]]
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} for David. [[spoiler:After Judy dies, he becomes catatonic due to the trauma or the virus. It's implied that he is one of the rare characters immune to the virus, but the doctors don't bother checking to confirm if that indeed is the case.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: AmbiguousSituation:
** Since people infected with the Trixie virus become delirious and homicidal, the army assumes that anyone behaving mindlessly is a "crazy". However, Dr. Watts notes that this doesn't rule out the possibility that some of the crazies are actually uninfected people panicking in response to the military takeover.
-->'''Dr.--->'''Dr. Watts:''' The whole thing's insane! How can you tell who's infected and who isn't?
** *** Throughout the movie, the townspeople revolt against the army, which results in multiple battles between the two sides. While the audience can easily pick out a couple of rebels as obviously infected (such as the woman sweeping the grass with a broom while following the others), it is ambiguous if the other rebels are infected too.
** As a nurse, Judy gets an antibiotics injection, presumably giving her body a better chance of fighting off the virus. [[spoiler:However, in the climax, Judy starts acting erratically; whether this is due to her pregnancy or the virus is not made clear since she dies before David can verify.]]
***** {{Downplayed|Trope}} for David. [[spoiler:After Judy dies, he becomes catatonic due to the trauma or the virus. It's implied that he is one of the rare characters immune to the virus, but the doctors don't bother checking to confirm if that indeed is the case.]] ]]
** [[spoiler:It is not revealed how the Trixie virus reached Louisville, Kentucky from Evans City, Pennsylvania.]]
** Since people infected with the Trixie virus become delirious and homicidal, the army assumes that anyone behaving mindlessly is a "crazy". However, Dr. Watts notes that this doesn't rule out the possibility that some of the crazies are actually uninfected people panicking in response to the military takeover.
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** [[spoiler:It is not revealed how the Trixie virus reached Louisville, Kentucky from Evans City, Pennsylvania.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The military gives its soldiers and doctors antibiotics aka antibacterial substances to defend themselves from the Trixie ''virus''. That said, Colonel Peckem refers to Trixie as a bacteriological weapon at one point, so it's unclear what exactly Trixie is supposed to be.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: This movie was made during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and it shows.
** David and Clank are Vietnam War veterans dealing with the fallout of the Trixie virus, an enemy that is less advanced but nonetheless has the stealth advantage.
** The American government is doing their best to prevent Trixie from spreading and scoring a domino effect against the lands surrounding Evans City, so much so that they are willing to [[NukeEm nuke the small town]] to achieve their goals.
** There is also a RedScare element regarding the Trixie virus as the infected look no different from the uninfected.
** David and Clank are Vietnam War veterans dealing with the fallout of the Trixie virus, an enemy that is less advanced but nonetheless has the stealth advantage.
** The American government is doing their best to prevent Trixie from spreading and scoring a domino effect against the lands surrounding Evans City, so much so that they are willing to [[NukeEm nuke the small town]] to achieve their goals.
** There is also a RedScare element regarding the Trixie virus as the infected look no different from the uninfected.
* LogicalWeakness: Like most germs, the Trixie Virus is vulnerable to ultraviolet light, very much TruthInTelevision.
* MagicalAntibiotics: The military gives its soldiers and doctors antibiotics aka ''antibacterial'' substances to defend themselves from the Trixie ''virus''. [[spoiler:That said, Judy still gets infected despite the antibiotic injection, so it is at least accurate in that respect.]]
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* SoundtrackDissonanceSpiritualAntithesis: This movie is one to George Romero's more famous ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' even if it predates almost all of the ''Living Dead'' movies. For one, the Crazies are [[TechnicallyLivingZombie people infected by a virus]] whereas the ''Living Dead'' zombies have [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane an ambiguously supernatural origin]]. Furthermore, while the Crazies slowly lose their minds and become insane, the ''Living Dead'' zombies are capable of regaining their former personalities and thereby can act more lucidly.
* TechnicallyLivingZombie: The Crazies are living people infected by the Trixie Virus. Upon acquiring the virus, the infected gradually become mentally unstable with most turning homicidally insane.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Clank]] slowly realizes that he is infected after David calls out his deranged behavior.
* TomTheDarkLord: The government's codename for their devastating bacteriological weapon is Trixie.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Clank]] slowly realizes that he is infected after David calls out his deranged behavior.
* TomTheDarkLord: The government's codename for their devastating bacteriological weapon is Trixie.
* UnbuiltTrope: The titular Crazies are an early example of {{Technically Living Zombie}}s[=/=]{{Plague Zombie}}s, but they subvert or deconstruct the usual characteristics associated with the modern versions.
** The Trixie virus itself plays with the idea of a HatePlague. Most people infected by Trixie turn into homicidal killers, but some of the Crazies merely regress in maturity and don't violently lash out.
** A common criticism of infected zombies, especially the ones inflicted with the HatePlague, is how they solely attack healthy humans but [[NoZombieCannibals conveniently never turn on one another]]. A general HandWave is that the virus gives the zombies the instinct to not attack each other, but in any case, none of this applies to the Crazies, who all have their own allegiances and motives. This means that Crazies will attack other Crazies and even cooperate with uninfected people because almost all of the Crazies are unaware that they are infected and assume there is nothing wrong with them.
** The Crazies may lose their mental stability, but like George Romero's ''other'' [[Film/LivingDeadSeries better-known zombies]], they are still smart enough to utilize firearms and other tools. This can be ironic considering that the modern infected zombies are supposed to be a more scientifically-accurate take on Romero's ''Living Dead'' zombies yet act more like [[TheBerserker berserkers]] whose main advantage is athleticism rather than human intelligence.
** Plague Zombies normally suffer from very visible symptoms such as abnormal hemorrhages and skin lesions, allowing one to differentiate the infected from the uninfected without needing some kind of diagnostic test. In contrast, the Crazies [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse look no different from the uninfected]], which proves to be a problem for the government. The general rule of thumb is that anyone behaving irrationally is a Crazy, but as pointed out by Dr. Watts, healthy people can behave irrationally as well, resulting in multiple false positives since the townsfolk, infected or not, aren't happy with the military presence and retaliate violently as a result.
** Most zombie viruses are contact-based diseases to justify why the zombies have to [[DeadlyScratch bite or scratch]] their victims to spread the infection. Trixie, on the other hand, relies on waterborne and airborne transmission to spread; therefore, none of the Crazies act like the stereotypical biting zombie because they don't need physical contact to infect the healthy. [[spoiler:This plays a part in the ending. David's survivor group falls apart because the contaminated water supply gave most, if not all, of them the virus, and the airborne transmission means that they were endangering the healthy members by sticking together. In addition, Trixie manages to spread from Pennsylvania to Kentucky despite the quarantine. While the scientists suspect that someone sneaked past the security and inadvertently brought the virus to Kentucky, it is equally likely that Trixie spread to Kentucky through various wind/water currents.]]
** The Trixie virus itself plays with the idea of a HatePlague. Most people infected by Trixie turn into homicidal killers, but some of the Crazies merely regress in maturity and don't violently lash out.
** A common criticism of infected zombies, especially the ones inflicted with the HatePlague, is how they solely attack healthy humans but [[NoZombieCannibals conveniently never turn on one another]]. A general HandWave is that the virus gives the zombies the instinct to not attack each other, but in any case, none of this applies to the Crazies, who all have their own allegiances and motives. This means that Crazies will attack other Crazies and even cooperate with uninfected people because almost all of the Crazies are unaware that they are infected and assume there is nothing wrong with them.
** The Crazies may lose their mental stability, but like George Romero's ''other'' [[Film/LivingDeadSeries better-known zombies]], they are still smart enough to utilize firearms and other tools. This can be ironic considering that the modern infected zombies are supposed to be a more scientifically-accurate take on Romero's ''Living Dead'' zombies yet act more like [[TheBerserker berserkers]] whose main advantage is athleticism rather than human intelligence.
** Plague Zombies normally suffer from very visible symptoms such as abnormal hemorrhages and skin lesions, allowing one to differentiate the infected from the uninfected without needing some kind of diagnostic test. In contrast, the Crazies [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse look no different from the uninfected]], which proves to be a problem for the government. The general rule of thumb is that anyone behaving irrationally is a Crazy, but as pointed out by Dr. Watts, healthy people can behave irrationally as well, resulting in multiple false positives since the townsfolk, infected or not, aren't happy with the military presence and retaliate violently as a result.
** Most zombie viruses are contact-based diseases to justify why the zombies have to [[DeadlyScratch bite or scratch]] their victims to spread the infection. Trixie, on the other hand, relies on waterborne and airborne transmission to spread; therefore, none of the Crazies act like the stereotypical biting zombie because they don't need physical contact to infect the healthy. [[spoiler:This plays a part in the ending. David's survivor group falls apart because the contaminated water supply gave most, if not all, of them the virus, and the airborne transmission means that they were endangering the healthy members by sticking together. In addition, Trixie manages to spread from Pennsylvania to Kentucky despite the quarantine. While the scientists suspect that someone sneaked past the security and inadvertently brought the virus to Kentucky, it is equally likely that Trixie spread to Kentucky through various wind/water currents.]]
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* ZombieInfectee: {{Averted}}. Most of the Crazies don't recognize anything wrong in their altered thinking, so they don't know that they are actually infected.
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Despite failing at the box office and getting mixed reviews, the movie gained a huge cult following and managed to get [[Film/TheCrazies2010 a remake in 2010]].
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Despite [[BoxOfficeBomb failing at the box office office]] and getting mixed reviews, the movie gained a huge cult following and managed to get [[Film/TheCrazies2010 a remake in 2010]].
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* MsFanservice: Judy gets a {{Sideboob}} scene and then walks around in her underwear for a minute before her first scene is half over.
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* RedShirtArmy: Justified; the soldiers are wearing white {{Hazmat Suit}}s that restrict their vision and makes them stand out in the woods. They're also rear echelon troops (from a chemical warfare unit) fighting Clank, a Vietnam veteran.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Colonel Peckem and Major Ryder, who enforce the QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice, are intelligent, decent men trying to keep the awful situation they have been forced into without any preparation from turning worse. They try to cut the local authorities some slack early on, work hard to round up the infected townspeople without killing any more of them than necessary, show contempt for the original creation of the bio-weapon, and try to give Dr. Watts the equipment he needs to look for a cure.
* RedShirtArmy: Justified; the soldiers are wearing white {{Hazmat Suit}}s that restrict their vision and makes them stand out in the woods. They're also rear echelon troops (from a chemical warfare unit) who are conflicted about killing people and are fighting Clank, a Vietnamveteran.veteran whose exposure to Trixie is making him AxCrazy.
* RedShirtArmy: Justified; the soldiers are wearing white {{Hazmat Suit}}s that restrict their vision and makes them stand out in the woods. They're also rear echelon troops (from a chemical warfare unit) who are conflicted about killing people and are fighting Clank, a Vietnam
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* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Colonel Peckem, despite not being bald, fits the archetype rather well.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Several of Watts' colleagues are working on trying to cure the disease outside to town, offscreen. The final scene mentions they've found an immune monkey among their test subjects which gives them hope for immune humans (although the soldiers in town aren't good at ''finding'' any immune humans among the quarantined people).
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The sheriff's deputy initially fights back along with him but surrenders when his boss dies.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The doctor Judy works for warns her to flee and gives her some medicine to use against the virus. This action is well-meant but breaks down trust and communication between the police and civilians even more in the short term, and [[spoiler:Judy gets killed, when she might have survived in quarantine.]]
* NoNameGiven: The lab technician prominently seen assisting Watts is never named.
* NoNameGiven: The lab technician prominently seen assisting Watts is never named.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Since people infected with the Trixie virus become delirious and homicidal, the army assumes that anyone behaving mindlessly is a "crazy". However, Dr. Watts notes that this doesn't rule out the possibility that some of the crazies are actually uninfected people panicking in response to the military takeover.
-->'''Dr. Watts:''' The whole thing's insane! How can you tell who's infected and who isn't?
** Throughout the movie, the townspeople revolt against the army, which results in multiple battles between the two sides. While the audience can easily pick out a couple of rebels as obviously infected (such as the woman sweeping the grass with a broom while following the others), it is ambiguous if the other rebels are infected too.
** As a nurse, Judy gets an antibiotics injection, presumably giving her body a better chance of fighting off the virus. [[spoiler:However, in the climax, Judy starts acting erratically; whether this is due to her pregnancy or the virus is not made clear since she dies before David can verify.]]
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} for David. [[spoiler:After Judy dies, he becomes catatonic due to the trauma or the virus. It's implied that he is one of the rare characters immune to the virus, but the doctors don't bother checking to confirm if that indeed is the case.]]
-->'''Dr. Watts:''' The whole thing's insane! How can you tell who's infected and who isn't?
** Throughout the movie, the townspeople revolt against the army, which results in multiple battles between the two sides. While the audience can easily pick out a couple of rebels as obviously infected (such as the woman sweeping the grass with a broom while following the others), it is ambiguous if the other rebels are infected too.
** As a nurse, Judy gets an antibiotics injection, presumably giving her body a better chance of fighting off the virus. [[spoiler:However, in the climax, Judy starts acting erratically; whether this is due to her pregnancy or the virus is not made clear since she dies before David can verify.]]
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} for David. [[spoiler:After Judy dies, he becomes catatonic due to the trauma or the virus. It's implied that he is one of the rare characters immune to the virus, but the doctors don't bother checking to confirm if that indeed is the case.]]
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The military gives its soldiers and doctors antibiotics aka antibacterial substances to defend themselves from the Trixie ''virus''. That said, Colonel Peckem refers to Trixie as a bacteriological weapon at one point, so it's unclear what exactly Trixie is supposed to be.
* DoubleMeaningTitle:
** The army dubs the infected townspeople as "crazies" since the Trixie virus turns its victims into murderous maniacs.
** On the other hand, Dr. Watts points out that some of the crazies are actually healthy people resorting to violence against the military presence.
** In addition, the entire situation is incredibly stressful and crazy, driving otherwise rational people insane.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Dr. Watts is killed and the cure smashed in a fight between soldiers (who assume Watts is infected and try to force him into a quarantined area) and the infected. Trixie had already spread beyond the town before the events of the film and infected a city. The one character who is immune keeps silent about it out of spite.]]
** The army dubs the infected townspeople as "crazies" since the Trixie virus turns its victims into murderous maniacs.
** On the other hand, Dr. Watts points out that some of the crazies are actually healthy people resorting to violence against the military presence.
** In addition, the entire situation is incredibly stressful and crazy, driving otherwise rational people insane.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Dr. Watts is killed and the cure smashed in a fight between soldiers (who assume Watts is infected and try to force him into a quarantined area) and the infected. Trixie had already spread beyond the town before the events of the film and infected a city. The one character who is immune keeps silent about it out of spite.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Dr Watts is killed and the cure smashed in a fight between soldiers (who assume Watts is infected and try to force him into a quarantined area) and the infected. Trixie had already spread beyond the town before the events of the film and infected a city. The one character who is immune keeps silent about it out of spite.]]
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* TheImmune: [[spoiler:David. Too bad he's the only person in town they never test for immunity, and is too angry over what's happened to tell them.]]
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* TheImmune: [[spoiler:David. Too bad he's the only person in town they never test for immunity, immunity and is too angry over what's happened to tell them.]]
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* JustFollowingOrders: A bureaucrat gets frustrated by the slow response to the crisis, and orders the next available member of the Trixie team into the crisis zone. Cue Dr Watts futilely arguing with the military police driving him to the plane that it makes ''no'' sense for the developer of the Trixie virus to be sent into the town where he doesn't have access to his laboratory or computers; all they need is someone to take samples.
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* JustFollowingOrders: A bureaucrat gets frustrated by the slow response to the crisis, and orders the next available member of the Trixie team into the crisis zone. Cue Dr Dr. Watts futilely arguing with the military police driving him to the plane that it makes ''no'' sense for the developer of the Trixie virus to be sent into the town where he doesn't have access to his laboratory or computers; all they need is someone to take samples.
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''The Crazies'' is a 1973 horror movie by Creator/GeorgeARomero (of ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' fame). A small town in Pennsylvania suffers from a string of violent attacks, ranging from beatdowns to arson. Firefighter David and his pregnant wife Judy are thrust into all this and to top it off, the military quarantine the town with orders to shoot anybody that escapes, regardless of being infected or not. David and Judy must try their damnedest to escape before the infected or the military get them.
Despite failing at the box office and getting mixed reviews, the movie gained a huge cult following. Its influence managed to get [[Film/TheCrazies2010 a remake in 2010]].
''The Crazies'' is a 1973 horror movie by Creator/GeorgeARomero (of ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' fame). A small town in Pennsylvania suffers from a string of violent attacks, ranging from beatdowns to arson. Firefighter David and his pregnant wife Judy are thrust into all this and to top it off, the military quarantine the town with orders to shoot anybody that escapes, regardless of being infected or not. David and Judy must try their damnedest to escape before the infected or the military get them.
Despite failing at the box office and getting mixed reviews, the movie gained a huge cult following. Its influence managed to get [[Film/TheCrazies2010 a remake in 2010]].
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''The Crazies'' (also known as ''Code Name: Trixie'') is a 1973
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Artie after realising he's had sex with his own daughter. He goes and [[DrivenToSuicide hangs himself]] (assuming Clank didn't kill him).
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Artie after realising realizing he's had sex with his own daughter. He goes and [[DrivenToSuicide hangs himself]] (assuming Clank didn't kill him).
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* RightHandVersusLeftHand: Pretty much every problem that ''could'' have been prevented in this crisis goes to shit because of [[PoorCommunicationKills a lack of communication]] between all of the parties that are each integral to doing so, going from the military not telling the townsfolk, local law enforcement and emergency services why their town is being quarantined and their populace rounded up like cattle, to bringing Dr. Watts into the danger zone with no means of collecting samples or developing a cure and so on.
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A 1973 horror movie by Creator/GeorgeARomero (of ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' fame). A small town in Pennsylvania suffers from a string of violent attacks, ranging from beatdowns to arson. Firefighter David and his pregnant wife Judy are thrust into all this and to top it off, the military quarantine the town with orders to shoot anybody that escapes, regardless of being infected or not. David and Judy must try their damnedest to escape before the infected or the military get them.
Despite failing at the box office and getting mixed reviews, the movie gained a huge cult following. Its influence managed to get [[Film/TheCrazies2010 a remake in 2010]].
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ComeBackToBedHoney: David and Judy. "You ignore the fire signal and I'll ignore the ringing phone."
* CreatorCameo: Had the president ever turned around, the viewers would have seen it was director George Romero.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: David tries this but it backfires, causing Judy to flee in panic; then David is attacked by townspeople thinking he's a soldier [[spoiler:and Judy gets shot]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Dr Watts is killed and the cure smashed in a fight between soldiers (who assume Watts is infected and try to force him into a quarantined area) and the infected. Trixie had already spread beyond the town before the events of the film and infected a city. The one character who is immune keeps silent about it out of spite.]]
* EnemyChatter: Exchanged between GasMaskMooks in several scenes.
* EvilArmy: Played straight from the view of the townspeople. Subverted by showing {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s acting under conditions of great stress, limited time, information and resources, and idiotic restrictions from higher authority.
* GunStruggle: The first indication that things are starting to go pear-shaped. The town sheriff resists being forcibly disarmed by the military, and ends up being fatally shot.
* HeroicSacrifice: Clank realises he's infected and draws off the soldiers chasing his friends.
* IdiotBall: The security restrictions hamper any attempt to deal with the crisis effectively. The top scientist on the Trixie project is sent into the town to do a job that any lab technician could do, then he's not allowed to send blood samples out of the city due to the quarantine.
* InvisiblePresident: Only the back of the President's head is seen, made all the stranger by having him only appear on a VideoPhone screen.
* TheImmune: [[spoiler:David. Too bad he's the only person in town they never test for immunity, and is too angry over what's happened to tell them.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: The infected old lady who stabs a soldier with her knitting needles.
* JustFollowingOrders: A bureaucrat gets frustrated by the slow response to the crisis, and orders the next available member of the Trixie team into the crisis zone. Cue Dr Watts futilely arguing with the military police driving him to the plane that it makes ''no'' sense for the developer of the Trixie virus to be sent into the town where he doesn't have access to his laboratory or computers; all they need is someone to take samples.
-->'''Soldier:''' I'm sorry, sir. Those are the orders.
-->'''Dr Watts:''' Orders, my ass! Stop the car! ''(they don't)'' You're going to have a hell of a time getting me on that plane, soldier.
-->'''Soldier:''' Maybe so, sir, but we'll do it.
* ManOnFire: One of the soldiers burning bodies goes crazy. He gets torched with a flamethrower. Also a priest goes mad and [[RuleOfSymbolism imitates a certain Buddhist monk]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Kathy just gives a quiet "Oh" after being fatally shot.
* MilitariesAreUseless: Because ArmiesAreEvil and plagued with severe amounts of obstructive protocols, which people adhere to even when they make things worse.
* ModestyBedsheet: Averted -- well it was TheSeventies!
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Artie after realising he's had sex with his own daughter. He goes and [[DrivenToSuicide hangs himself]] (assuming Clank didn't kill him).
* NukeEm: A SAC bomber is kept on permanent patrol above the town, [[spoiler:though it's never actually used.]]
* PapaWolf: Subverted. Artie is too scared to protect his daughter Kathy effectively, and ends up going crazy and [[ParentalIncest having sex with her]].
* PetTheDog: At one point during the rather rough round up of civilians, a soldier is seen starting to carry away a little girl, only to move back and let her pick up the stuffed animal she was whimpering for.
* PleaseWakeUp: In the opening scene.
* {{Plunder}}: Several soldiers are shown stealing abandoned property and, in one scene, [[EvilArmy stripping the dead of their valuables before burning the bodies]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: A literal version of this trope; the officer originally sent to deal with the crashed plane wasn't told he's dealing with a bioweapon, so treated it as a routine clean-up job to be handled discreetly. The crisis team has to communicate through a voiceprint security system that delays communication. The media blackout means that the townspeople end up fighting the military, because they don't understand what's happening or that they shouldn't drink the water. Dr. Watts rushes out without telling the technician working with him how he found the cure.
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Both versions of the film showcase the military cordoning off the town and then killing first anybody trying to leave, and then ''everybody inside'', in the attempt to contain TheVirus.
* RasterVision: Used for a VideoPhone showing only [[InvisiblePresident the back of the President's head]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
-->'''Dr. Watts:''' It just ''astonishes'' me how shoddy this whole operation is.\\
'''Col. Peckhem:''' [[SeenItAll Nothing astonishes me anymore.]]
* RedShirtArmy: Justified; the soldiers are wearing white {{Hazmat Suit}}s that restrict their vision and makes them stand out in the woods. They're also rear echelon troops (from a chemical warfare unit) fighting Clank, a Vietnam veteran.
* ScienceIsBad: The core of an argument between Colonel Peckhem and Dr. Watts. Peckhem accuses Watts and his fellow scientists of (incorrectly) assuring the military that the Trixie virus was 100% benign; Watts counters that the actual figure was a bit less than that -- based on standards set ''by the military.''
* SoundtrackDissonance
* StepfordSmiler: One of the symptoms.
* TriggerHappy: Clank after becoming infected. Not the soldiers contrary to what some viewers think; they lose several people trying to talk armed civilians into putting down their weapons.
* VideoPhone: A video link is set up with the President of the United States so he can, if required, authorize the use of nuclear weapons to contain the virus. However, as the President spends the entire conversation [[InvisiblePresident sitting with his back to the camera]], one wonders why George Romero didn't just have him talking over a telephone speaker.
* YourHeadAsplode: Happens to a [[GasMaskMooks Gas Masked Mook]], despite being shot by the notoriously-underpowered .30 Carbine round.
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A 1973 horror movie by Creator/GeorgeARomero (of ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' fame). A small town in Pennsylvania suffers from a string of violent attacks, ranging from beatdowns to arson. Firefighter David and his pregnant wife Judy are thrust into all this and to top it off, the military quarantine the town with orders to shoot anybody that escapes, regardless of being infected or not. David and Judy must try their damnedest to escape before the infected or the military get them.
Despite failing at the box office and getting mixed reviews, the movie gained a huge cult following. Its influence managed to get [[Film/TheCrazies2010 a remake in 2010]].
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ComeBackToBedHoney: David and Judy. "You ignore the fire signal and I'll ignore the ringing phone."
* CreatorCameo: Had the president ever turned around, the viewers would have seen it was director George Romero.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: David tries this but it backfires, causing Judy to flee in panic; then David is attacked by townspeople thinking he's a soldier [[spoiler:and Judy gets shot]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Dr Watts is killed and the cure smashed in a fight between soldiers (who assume Watts is infected and try to force him into a quarantined area) and the infected. Trixie had already spread beyond the town before the events of the film and infected a city. The one character who is immune keeps silent about it out of spite.]]
* EnemyChatter: Exchanged between GasMaskMooks in several scenes.
* EvilArmy: Played straight from the view of the townspeople. Subverted by showing {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s acting under conditions of great stress, limited time, information and resources, and idiotic restrictions from higher authority.
* GunStruggle: The first indication that things are starting to go pear-shaped. The town sheriff resists being forcibly disarmed by the military, and ends up being fatally shot.
* HeroicSacrifice: Clank realises he's infected and draws off the soldiers chasing his friends.
* IdiotBall: The security restrictions hamper any attempt to deal with the crisis effectively. The top scientist on the Trixie project is sent into the town to do a job that any lab technician could do, then he's not allowed to send blood samples out of the city due to the quarantine.
* InvisiblePresident: Only the back of the President's head is seen, made all the stranger by having him only appear on a VideoPhone screen.
* TheImmune: [[spoiler:David. Too bad he's the only person in town they never test for immunity, and is too angry over what's happened to tell them.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: The infected old lady who stabs a soldier with her knitting needles.
* JustFollowingOrders: A bureaucrat gets frustrated by the slow response to the crisis, and orders the next available member of the Trixie team into the crisis zone. Cue Dr Watts futilely arguing with the military police driving him to the plane that it makes ''no'' sense for the developer of the Trixie virus to be sent into the town where he doesn't have access to his laboratory or computers; all they need is someone to take samples.
-->'''Soldier:''' I'm sorry, sir. Those are the orders.
-->'''Dr Watts:''' Orders, my ass! Stop the car! ''(they don't)'' You're going to have a hell of a time getting me on that plane, soldier.
-->'''Soldier:''' Maybe so, sir, but we'll do it.
* ManOnFire: One of the soldiers burning bodies goes crazy. He gets torched with a flamethrower. Also a priest goes mad and [[RuleOfSymbolism imitates a certain Buddhist monk]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Kathy just gives a quiet "Oh" after being fatally shot.
* MilitariesAreUseless: Because ArmiesAreEvil and plagued with severe amounts of obstructive protocols, which people adhere to even when they make things worse.
* ModestyBedsheet: Averted -- well it was TheSeventies!
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Artie after realising he's had sex with his own daughter. He goes and [[DrivenToSuicide hangs himself]] (assuming Clank didn't kill him).
* NukeEm: A SAC bomber is kept on permanent patrol above the town, [[spoiler:though it's never actually used.]]
* PapaWolf: Subverted. Artie is too scared to protect his daughter Kathy effectively, and ends up going crazy and [[ParentalIncest having sex with her]].
* PetTheDog: At one point during the rather rough round up of civilians, a soldier is seen starting to carry away a little girl, only to move back and let her pick up the stuffed animal she was whimpering for.
* PleaseWakeUp: In the opening scene.
* {{Plunder}}: Several soldiers are shown stealing abandoned property and, in one scene, [[EvilArmy stripping the dead of their valuables before burning the bodies]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: A literal version of this trope; the officer originally sent to deal with the crashed plane wasn't told he's dealing with a bioweapon, so treated it as a routine clean-up job to be handled discreetly. The crisis team has to communicate through a voiceprint security system that delays communication. The media blackout means that the townspeople end up fighting the military, because they don't understand what's happening or that they shouldn't drink the water. Dr. Watts rushes out without telling the technician working with him how he found the cure.
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Both versions of the film showcase the military cordoning off the town and then killing first anybody trying to leave, and then ''everybody inside'', in the attempt to contain TheVirus.
* RasterVision: Used for a VideoPhone showing only [[InvisiblePresident the back of the President's head]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
-->'''Dr. Watts:''' It just ''astonishes'' me how shoddy this whole operation is.\\
'''Col. Peckhem:''' [[SeenItAll Nothing astonishes me anymore.]]
* RedShirtArmy: Justified; the soldiers are wearing white {{Hazmat Suit}}s that restrict their vision and makes them stand out in the woods. They're also rear echelon troops (from a chemical warfare unit) fighting Clank, a Vietnam veteran.
* ScienceIsBad: The core of an argument between Colonel Peckhem and Dr. Watts. Peckhem accuses Watts and his fellow scientists of (incorrectly) assuring the military that the Trixie virus was 100% benign; Watts counters that the actual figure was a bit less than that -- based on standards set ''by the military.''
* SoundtrackDissonance
* StepfordSmiler: One of the symptoms.
* TriggerHappy: Clank after becoming infected. Not the soldiers contrary to what some viewers think; they lose several people trying to talk armed civilians into putting down their weapons.
* VideoPhone: A video link is set up with the President of the United States so he can, if required, authorize the use of nuclear weapons to contain the virus. However, as the President spends the entire conversation [[InvisiblePresident sitting with his back to the camera]], one wonders why George Romero didn't just have him talking over a telephone speaker.
* YourHeadAsplode: Happens to a [[GasMaskMooks Gas Masked Mook]], despite being shot by the notoriously-underpowered .30 Carbine round.
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