"trailer for "The Crazies"" Topic

Just seen a trailer for the movie "The Crazies" this looks like it would have great gaming potential, from what I could tell people just start turning into not zombies from some kind of virus but blood thirsty ax weilding gun toting murdering maniacs!

here's a link to the trailer
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I just watched the original on YouTube…
The thing with the original is that you couldn't tell who had the virus until they started acting wacky… they didn't get all weird looking like in the remake.
Also, the infected didn't just get violent… some of them just got REALLY freindly… others acted other kinds of nuts.

I'm really looking forward to this movie.

Another movie I just saw along the same lines was "The Signal". Came out in 2007. TV and Radio signal turns people into, well, crazies. B+ in the OMR (Oddball Movie Review).

Interesting. Might have to check it out.

Dan
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I try and stay from "R' or border line movies because I'll have nightmares for weeks – too much imagination I guess.

It was not until I was in my mid-20's (about a decade after seeing the following) before I could watch Lon Chaney's Wolfman (caught it at a tender age in a simpler time on TV one evening when both parents were unexpectedly late from work/errands.)

That said, this seems a huge cut (pun intended) above from a "B" movie. I'll probably pass but the concept is scary all by itself.

Gracias,

Glenn

Wow, Glenn. Seriously?

Dan

Anyone remember the original. They would show it in the early seventies late at night and it would be so eery, the music , the dialogue, the acting, the production in general was so simple that it scared the hell out of me. It is another Romero classic.

I think it would add a new twist then all the zombie games, you know the same old "Look there's a zombie, over there!" now you just don't know who is infected, so chance encounter become more intresting.
you can use more minis of regular people, then just switch out with zombie ones when their discovered to be infected, and not everyone is infected that your aware of when you first meet them and could change later, so now who do you trust.
Five or six players and a GM controlling the inital crazies to start on the board, players and GM can use their own minis, prior to game start the GM randomly picks which players are infected, and GM picks when infection take hold and now those player continue to play but as the "Crazies"
GM can run the inital Crazies, leads to not trusting other players who team up to get through the game, and it brings those who could be crazies closer to the non crazy players and can make getting through the game much harder, then just being overrun by zombies hordes, when the play right next to you could just turn and shoot you because he just turn crazy

War Monkey,

I think you may have just discovered the core idea for figuring this out too:

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Dan

I think they gave away too much in the trailer… It that a Nuke I see?

Well this looked good though… YouTube link Even if it does have Cage in it…

I love the fact that they've based this in Iowa…they even use one of our local newscasters!!

Regarding that Season of the Witch….Sorry, if it has Cage in it and it's not Raising Arizona, this will be a PASS from me!

Cool thing is that you can't always immediately tell if the person is a crazy or just themselves until you have had some interaction and by that time it might be just too late. Boo!

The craziness comes on slowly in the original 'The Crazies'… some characters realize they're sick and do themselves in or take heroic action. It's pretty subtle in some cases. Not everyone becomes dangerous. The ones that do turn dangerous don't necessarily turn on their friends.

'The Signal' is similar except that most everyone seems to go violent in their reaction… and some folks can overcome it.

That youtube trailer was great… until that bloody "mad world" song came on. God I hate that!

A remake or retelling of a Romero film from the early 70's imdb.com/title/tt0069895

Regular people driven to murder…complete rage to kill…better than zombies because they can use weapons, open doors, possibly drive cars,etc…

Of course potential for gaming.

In a necromunda style gang game I chose an odd direction by taking the allowed points, I forget the exact details but basically enough for 8-10 well equipt gangers with 1 or 2 being veterans. So I took the basic gang member with no vets (12), then sold back all the guns/special weapons, and just allowed for found items (rocks, chains, pipes, clubs, spears, etc.) this gave me a total of 22-24 (I forget exactly how many) sewer savages…rags, rocks, and rage…basically the crazies. There was lots of cover due to the setting so my crazies made up the distance without losing too many guys.

Usually I lost but if I had home field advantage I could hide up to half of my forces as forward observers and ambush scouts.

Even if I lost it was a fun unit to play.

Dan,

Yes, true.

Gracias,

Glenn

Just saw it. Silly but the wife enjoyed it. I liked the ending.

I've never seen the original "Crazies," so this could be way off base, but it seems to me that the underlying inspiration for this kind of ultraviolent horror flick could have grown out of the late 60's/early 70's paranoia about hippies or radicals causing an entire city to freak out by poisoning the local reservoir with a vanload of acid. If I were to run a game based on the concept, that's how I'd handle it: as a satirical sendup of freakout paranoia. Now, does anybody know where I can get 28-mm figures for Joe Friday, Bill Gannon, the Mod Squad, Hunter S. Thompson, 10,000 berserk hippies, a couple of biker gangs, Robert Crumb, and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (plus, for bonus points, Fat Freddy's Cat)?

Mulligan

"inspiration for this kind of ultraviolent horror flick could have grown out of the late 60's/early 70's paranoia about hippies or radicals causing an entire city to freak out by poisoning the local reservoir with a vanload of acid"

grrrr…hippies…I would favor a culling of said creature! :)