| Cacique Caribe | 26 Jan 2018 11:06 p.m. PST |
Or was it a mind-altering virus? At least this movie didn't have them turning into creatures with long tentacles coming out their mouths or some reanimated corpses or something like that. Because I can't be scared about things that aren't even remotely believable. Insane and sick I can believe. Dan
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| TheWhiteDog | 27 Jan 2018 7:31 a.m. PST |
I believe it was either mentioned in the '73 original, or the '10 remake, that it is a modified member of the rhabdoviridae (like rabies). Somewhat similar to the "Rage-virus" in 28 Days Later. |
rvandusen  | 27 Jan 2018 8:15 a.m. PST |
I forgot about the re-make, though I enjoyed it when I saw it. If you enjoy the rage virus theme, I recommend the novel Tooth and Nail by Craig Dilouie. It is hard military SF/horror about a rifle platoon recalled from the Middle East and deployed in Manhattan to guard a medical clinic during a rage virus outbreak.
link It would make a gripping movie with the right director and a good budget: 28 Days Later meets Black Hawk Down. |
| pzivh43 | 27 Jan 2018 9:35 a.m. PST |
rvandusen---agree that Tooth and Nail was an excellent rage zombie book. Another one, with several books in the series, is John Ringo, Under a Graveyard Sky novels. |
| rvandusen | 27 Jan 2018 5:46 p.m. PST |
pzivn43
Thanks for the tip on the John Ringo titles. I'll have to pick those up. |
| Cacique Caribe | 27 Jan 2018 5:46 p.m. PST |
I'll have to check them out. Like I said, the believable stuff is the scariest stuff to me. Reanimated corpses just don't do it for me. I spend half the time laughing, which is not the reaction you want when you want to see a horror flick. Thanks guys! Dan |
| Katzbalger | 28 Jan 2018 8:57 a.m. PST |
The John Ringo books are pretty good, if you can get over the…uh, not sure what to call it, but "fan service" is the closest I can come up with. The virus is very interesting and the stories are mostly about survival and rebuilding society. Rob |
| Zephyr1 | 28 Jan 2018 3:44 p.m. PST |
The first 2 Ringo books were the best, the third was just a quick wrap-up. Thought the series was going to have a hunt for the people that started the virus, but that was dropped in favor of "zombie battle pr0n"… |
| capncarp | 28 Jan 2018 6:52 p.m. PST |
I think what you're thinking of with the "Trixie" compound may be the Trioxin 2-4-5 from "Return of the Living Dead 2"
A heavy leaning play on "Agent Orange"'s name compound--Dioxin 2-4-5, T |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 Feb 2018 10:13 p.m. PST |
In The Crazies (2010), when they try to stop the speeding black SUV and instead make it flip over, the guy that was inside the car said that the substance was called "Trixie". Dan
PS. And the plane that crashed and spilled it was big:
YouTube link |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 Feb 2018 10:39 p.m. PST |
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