Dispensable arms, legs, heads – you name it, it can go.
In this genre, pre-title can be intense. You have to wonder what it must have been like for the blond hair, blue eyed all-American actress who plays the little girl who, holding a hand crafted white sheep-toy, wakes to find her house in the throes of The Crazies. The inadvertent spread of an experimental vaccine has become an overnight epidemic. It’s highly contagious and if it infects you, you’ll either die or go insane.
George A. Romero as director has a distinctive vision that exists largely outside America’s dominant moral compass. This is firmly the periphery commentating on the majority and in Romero’s apocalyptic worldview there are few, if any, boundaries. Taboo is the order of the day.
Always low budget, Romero’s early films were made with a group of friends who each contributed around $10K. Together they produced the cult classic, Night of the Living Dead (1968). Ten years later, Dawn of the Dead was made for $500,000.
[Original trailer]
