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The Crazies (1973)

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The Crazies (1973)	comment	The Crazies (also known as Code Name: Trixie) is a 1973 Sci-Fi Horror movie written and directed by George A. Romero (of Living Dead Series fame).After its water supply is accidentally contaminated by a bioweapon, a small town in Pennsylvania suffers from a string of violent attacks among its citizens, ranging from beatdowns to arson. Firefighter David (Will McMillan) and his pregnant wife Judy (Lane Carroll) find themselves thrust into all this, and to top things off the U.S. military quarantines the town with orders to shoot and kill anybody who attempts to escape, whether infected or not. Now David and Judy must try their damnedest to leave town before either the infected or the military get them.Despite failing at the box office and getting mixed reviews, the movie gained a huge cult following and managed to get a remake in 2010.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Had the president ever turned around, the viewers would have seen it was director George Romero.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: This movie was made during the Cold War 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 nuke the small town to achieve their goals. There is also a Red Scare element regarding the Trixie virus as the infected look no different from the uninfected. Similar to Thích Quảng Đức, the priest sets himself on fire to protest the military occupation.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_1522d74	type	Technically-Living Zombie
The Crazies (1973) / int_1522d74	comment	Technically Living Zombie: 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.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
The Crazies (1973) / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: Happens to a Gas Mask Mook.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
The Crazies (1973) / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: David tries this but it backfires, causing Judy to flee in panic; then David is attacked by townspeople thinking he's a soldier and Judy gets shot.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
The Crazies (1973) / int_19a5d773	comment	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 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.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Crazies (1973) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: 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.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Crazies (1973) / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Subverted. Artie is too scared to protect his daughter Kathy effectively, and ends up going crazy and having sex with her.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Crazies (1973) / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: 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. 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. Downplayed for David. 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 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.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_26431f8	type	Magical Antibiotics
The Crazies (1973) / int_26431f8	comment	Magical Antibiotics: The military gives its soldiers and doctors antibiotics aka antibacterial substances to defend themselves from the Trixie virus. That said, Judy still gets infected despite the antibiotic injection, so it is at least accurate in that respect.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
The Crazies (1973) / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: Clank slowly realizes that he is infected after David calls out his deranged behavior.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_3511c4d7	type	Plunder
The Crazies (1973) / int_3511c4d7	comment	Plunder: Several soldiers are shown stealing abandoned property and, in one scene, stripping the dead of their valuables before burning the bodies.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_39add7e2	type	Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice
The Crazies (1973) / int_39add7e2	comment	Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice: 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 The Virus.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
The Crazies (1973) / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed for David. 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 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.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_53e1ce4e	type	Please Wake Up
The Crazies (1973) / int_53e1ce4e	comment	Please Wake Up: In the opening scene.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_57cf76a1	type	Hate Plague
The Crazies (1973) / int_57cf76a1	comment	A common criticism of infected zombies, especially the ones inflicted with the Hate Plague, is how they solely attack healthy humans but conveniently never turn on one another. A general Hand Wave 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 themselves have no qualms in attacking and killing fellow Crazies. Additionally, the Crazies still retain their former personalities and motives, so they will ally with close friends, even those that are healthy individuals. Most importantly, the Crazies are unaware that they themselves are infected since the Trixie Virus is a Mind Virus that solely affects the target's mental capacities.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Crazies (1973) / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: 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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The Crazies (1973) / int_5aa9fe2a	comment	Raster Vision: Used for a Video Phone showing only the back of the President's head.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_5c3c800f	type	The Immune
The Crazies (1973) / int_5c3c800f	comment	The Immune: 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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The Crazies (1973) / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: One of the soldiers burning bodies goes crazy. He gets torched with a flamethrower. Also a priest goes mad and imitates a certain Buddhist monk.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Crazies (1973) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Clank realises he's infected and draws off the soldiers chasing his friends.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_68148dc	type	Militaries Are Useless
The Crazies (1973) / int_68148dc	comment	Militaries Are Useless: Because Armies Are Evil and plagued with severe amounts of obstructive protocols, which people adhere to even when they make things worse.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
The Crazies (1973) / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: The infected old lady who stabs a soldier with her knitting needles.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_6a3bedce	type	Modesty Bedsheet
The Crazies (1973) / int_6a3bedce	comment	Modesty Bedsheet: Averted — well it was The '70s!
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The Crazies (1973) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Crazies (1973) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Artie.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Crazies (1973) / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: The film ends with Peckhem being sent to another town where Trixie has broken out.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Crazies (1973) / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: 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.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Only the back of the President's head is seen, made all the stranger by having him only appear on a Video Phone screen.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Crazies (1973) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech:
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The Crazies (1973) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Crazies (1973) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: 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 Judy gets killed, when she might have survived in quarantine.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_83641c73	type	Logical Weakness
The Crazies (1973) / int_83641c73	comment	Logical Weakness: Like most germs, the Trixie Virus is vulnerable to ultraviolet light, very much Truth in Television.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
The Crazies (1973) / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: One of the symptoms.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_88e5066d	type	Trigger-Happy
The Crazies (1973) / int_88e5066d	comment	Trigger-Happy: 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.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_8d8c3304	type	Deadly Scratch
The Crazies (1973) / int_8d8c3304	comment	Most zombie viruses are contact-based diseases to justify why the zombies have to 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. 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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The Crazies (1973) / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
The Crazies (1973) / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: Kathy just gives a quiet "Oh" after being fatally shot.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Crazies (1973) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Artie after realizing he's had sex with his own daughter. He goes and hangs himself (assuming Clank didn't kill him).
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The Crazies (1973) / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: 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.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
The Crazies (1973) / int_ac1e30d8	comment	There is also a Red Scare element regarding the Trixie virus as the infected look no different from the uninfected.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
The Crazies (1973) / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: A SAC bomber is kept on permanent patrol above the town, though it's never actually used.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Watts synthesizes an antidote, but while he runs around trying to find Peckham to tell him, he's mistaken for a local and herded into the high school gym. He ends up getting killed and the antidote is destroyed.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Crazies (1973) / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: 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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The Crazies (1973) / int_b434558	comment	Video Phone: 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 sitting with his back to the camera, one wonders why George Romero didn't just have him talking over a telephone speaker.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_b691c1e5	type	Come Back to Bed, Honey
The Crazies (1973) / int_b691c1e5	comment	Come Back to Bed, Honey: David and Judy. "You ignore the fire signal and I'll ignore the ringing phone."
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The Crazies (1973) / int_bafbff8f	type	Tom the Dark Lord
The Crazies (1973) / int_bafbff8f	comment	Tom the Dark Lord: The government's codename for their devastating bacteriological weapon is Trixie.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_c14ca4e0	comment	Zombie Infectee: 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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The Crazies (1973) / int_ccf46587	comment	Red Shirt Army: Justified; the soldiers are wearing white Hazmat Suits 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 veteran whose exposure to Trixie is making him Ax-Crazy.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: This movie is one to George Romero's more famous Living Dead Series even if it predates almost all of the Living Dead movies. For one, the Crazies are people infected by a virus whereas the Living Dead zombies have 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.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: The infected are by no means malevolent, but several are extremely dangerous to the people around them without even realizing it, like Clank and Artie once they become infected.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_d73e0f7f	comment	"Ray of Hope" Ending: 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 The Immune, 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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The Crazies (1973) / int_d73ecb18	comment	Gun Struggle: The first indication that things are starting to go pear-shaped. Sheriff Cooper resists being forcibly disarmed by the military, and ends up being fatally shot.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_d833090a	comment	Right Hand Versus Left Hand: Pretty much every problem that could have been prevented in this crisis goes to shit because of 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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The Crazies (1973) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Colonel Peckem and Major Ryder, who enforce the Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice, 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.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: 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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The Crazies (1973) / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: After the Cold Open, the first characters to appear on screen are David, Judy, and Clank with Colonel Peckem and Dr. Watts making their debut much later. 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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The Crazies (1973) / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The Crazies (1973) / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: The sheriff's deputy initially fights back along with him but surrenders when his boss dies.
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The Crazies (1973) / int_ec9a5f50	type	Deconstructed Character Archetype
The Crazies (1973) / int_ec9a5f50	comment	The movie also has a Deconstructed Character Archetype of The Immune. 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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The Crazies (1973) / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: The titular Crazies are an early example of Technically Living Zombies/Plague Zombies, but they subvert or deconstruct the usual characteristics associated with the modern versions. The Trixie virus itself plays with the idea of a Hate Plague. 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 Hate Plague, is how they solely attack healthy humans but conveniently never turn on one another. A general Hand Wave 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 themselves have no qualms in attacking and killing fellow Crazies. Additionally, the Crazies still retain their former personalities and motives, so they will ally with close friends, even those that are healthy individuals. Most importantly, the Crazies are unaware that they themselves are infected since the Trixie Virus is a Mind Virus that solely affects the target's mental capacities. The Crazies may lose their mental stability, but like George Romero's other 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 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 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 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. 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 movie also has a Deconstructed Character Archetype of The Immune. 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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The Crazies (1973) / int_f68664dc	comment	Science Is Bad: 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.
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