A boring day at home, which, quite frankly, is exactly what I was hoping for.
This evening I watched The Crazies, the recent remake of George Romero’s 1973 film. As horror remakes go, it was pretty decent — not least of all because most horror remakes aren’t decent at all, and because the original wasn’t all that perfect either. I do think the original maybe did a better job of portraying madness and a town in the grips of it. (As I’ve noted before, it and The Signal, another horror movie with similar themes, make for some interesting companion viewing.) By the end, in the remake, the townsfolk are a little too standard-issue zombie. Still, Timothy Olyphant’s good in it, and the movie offers some efficient scares.
I quite liked the satellite footage hidden in the credits – it nicely capped off the film. And the car wash scene. It made me jump!
Yeah, the car wash scene was nice. “I saw something move!” “Everything’s moving!”