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We never thought it would happen.
Nobody gets in or out of that town,

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though, Is that clear? The
girls just died. How do you

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intend to let the people know about
all this? We were asleep? They

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dragged up right out of the house. Are we under martial law? They'll

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talk to me or anybody else unless
you get a voice print check. Oh

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knows broke loose some town. Nobody
knows what's going on now? Look,

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you just can't push us around this
way. We've got to get a nuclear

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weapon in the air above that town, and what the hell's going on?

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Share? You know what I do? Boy, let's go hi, taking

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me new push good man. They
started something they can't stop about. Crazy.

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There's a something that commits, something
that inclains, something that brutalizes.

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It's madness unleashed by human error,
the crazy. Can they tame it before

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time runs out? I'm a key
man in the Christy team, a key

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man. I'm one of the developers
of that goddamn thing. Now, if

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you want me to get the job
done, you get me the stuff I

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need and you get it to hell
at em before the morning's over. A

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small town becomes a giant stock aide
Evans City must be contained or leveled.

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We're all concerned with Evans City.
Mister hawks, If we have to push

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the boon, would you say the
weapon went off? Get me the President.

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Three thousand, six hundred and fourteen
people are trapped by an unknown enemy.

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Five are on the run. Can
they escape the spreading fury of the

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crazy? You can make it.
I know it. They're coming, David,

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David, They're coming to move.
We gotta get out of your Jesus

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man, and I want a weaponster
for the entire time. What's your body?

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This is exactly the kind of thing
with trying to prevent a lethal terror

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snowballs into hell. Mad miss runs
repons we'll dope it out sooner later,

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singer later, really the crazy.
It is my belief for horror films to

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succeed in scaring the viewer, the
evil or villain must be something born out

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of a real fear. This week's
film combines many multiple fears that we all

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have biochemical weapons, a major sickness
in the government overreaching in declaring martial law.

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In our first film honoring George A. Romero this month, The Crazies

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was released in nineteen seventy three,
This film takes us to Evans City,

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Pennsylvania, where a government developed biochemical
weapon codenamed Tricksy has contaminated the town's water

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supply following an accident. This causes
those infected with the virus to become crazed

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maniacs before dying. Our first two
scenes will explain the power of the weapon.

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First, one of the chief developers
of Trixie, doctor Watts, played

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by Richard French, explains what Trixie
does to its victims and how dangerous it

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is. Then we hear fighting between
two members of the National Guard that have

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been sent to quarantine this small town, Major Writer and Colonel Peckham. They

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are arguing over what action to take
in the town. These two scenes develop

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the danger that Trixie is and also
show us a major thread in most of

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George A. Romero's films, that
is the struggle for control in catistrophic circumstances.

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That is not evident in just these
two clips, but it is evident

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throughout the entire film. We don't
have to worry about its being spread by

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the dogs, sirtcats, birds.
Sort of a consolation that may be to

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you, that's there any that monkeys
hereabouts. The only ones infect it will

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be human beings. If we catch
it in the early stages, can it

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be reversed? Oh, we searched
for an antidote to three years. That

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project was an existence, doctor,
no dice? How many visionary sargeant don't

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you know? Don't form doctor watch
were be able to call in the commanders?

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Yet they told me I could use
the radio on the plane, but

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it wasn't pipe through you. What
are you calling you? You're aving a

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network using the ultimates to avoid any
chance of the lady precious security. Keep

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it under wraps it all costs.
Meanwhile, do you realize the blunder that's

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been made. We can have you
flown back as those who are on a

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complete med check and get a glance
from washing. Let's get started. If

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you don't have all our equipment anymore, Beautiful, when will that be as

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soon as possible? Appropriately bade,
colonel. Look, it's your fake boys

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who created this thing in the first
place, Beautiful, I am one of

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the only chances we have. I
can't get back to a lab because you're

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not equipped to run a medical check, which we wouldn't eat in the first

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place. I hadn't packed up here. The whole operation is one fat blunder.

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You talk about blunders. According to
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virus was considered an active said,
yes, that's the important word. Any

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man on a team of lady that
means maybe that's a standard we don't set,

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Colonel, that's set by the military. We're not getting anywhere trying to

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assign blame. It authorizes me back
to the lab. I can't take a

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chance on breaking the perimeter with somebody
that might be a carrier. Rixie's been

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in these waters for six days.
Some truck driver could have taken it out

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of here long before you set up
that perime. Well, we're going to

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the assumption we've got it container were
then we're going to keep it container until

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it runs its course. How is
this course? You said it can't stay

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active in the annultra violet. Ye
in the water, man, I need

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the ground. And it's obviously people
too. People are vectors. They carry

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it about with them unawares. The
incubation period may very, Colonel, but

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ultimately Trixie is going to spread throughout
this entire town. The town is sealed

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off, Oh, colonel, look
shortly before the funds ran off. Two

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of my technicians caught this bug from
Mauricea's monkey. One of them was delirious

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for two days before he finally died. The other phased in and out until

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he finally went hopelessly mad. Those
are the two ultimate effects of this thing.

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It's not just gonna run its course
and be forgotten. How the hell

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are you guys gonna explain away a
pound. It's either wiped out or reduced

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to mindlessness. What is this another
piece of information they've got to pass on

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you guys. Oh, gentlemen,
we're not dealing with the flu virus here.

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We're dealing with an awten lethal,
always debilitating, and syphletic mutation leaves

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its victims on the dead. I'm
curably mad you got that and now fighting

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between Colonel Peckham in major Watts.
Yet, I want to set up a

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second perimeter now. The inside line
will continue the moving towards the downtown area,

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bringing everything they find with them.
I want the second perimeter two miles

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inside the first. That's too miles. Spress would be called a no man's

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land. Nothing can stay on it, no one can cross it. Talking

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about an awful lot of minster well, We'll just have to get them in

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here. What do we have now? I've company? Why did this get

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down to the last minute? These
the plumb should have been raid I'm over

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here. Oh. The initial information
was that the vaccine was harmless. Do

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you mean they didn't take any precautionary
action routine procedure. I got here the

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day of the crash, playing with
down in these hills above the town investigators

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reported that the casings wound up in
the river. Apparently the water flows through

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an underground reservoir and Evans City is
applied with artesian systems out of that so

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I stayed in town, notified the
police and the town doctor beyond the alert

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for any high fever symptance of delirium, sir. The report was that the

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Trixie team had deactivated the pastor.
Trixie wasn't developed as a vaccine. Trixie

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was developed as a bacteriological weapon.
That's abot Colm Central calling Colonel Peckham Colm

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Central, Colonel Peckisspecam, Yes,
sir, we have completed your voice print

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check weekend. Let's make blackout whom
when we knew the blackout was to avoid

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embarrassment, but a bio weather never
occurred to me. I felt for that

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storybook Blinded Sinker. That was the
idea that our Colonel Peckham an unosters name

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Christopher Chris Chris, Uh, this
is a Proul Baker, Chris, glad

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you're there, your writers, A
coveted man and a good officer. But

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I did get the feeling he's hitting
the panic button a little too prematurely,

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mister Brubek. I wanted a real
evaluate. Mister Brubek could really like out

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there, mister Brubeck away running out
of time. Now, if you want

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me to get the job done,
you get me the stuff I need and

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you get it back Hell and happy
bore in the morning cover. What made

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Romero not just a horror film maestro
but a film directoral maestro is his ability

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to show the darkness of humanity amongst
chaos. While viewing this film, I

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found it to be rife with disturbing
cinematography. The opening scene is a man

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that, while being crazed, burns
down his home with no provocation, with

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his children preparing for bed. The
residents turn on each other, with it

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being unknown if it is due to
the virus or fear. That is one

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way out of many that Romero is
truly one of the greatest. These last

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two clips show that darkness and chaos. First, we hear the struggle between

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the town and National Guard when the
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Then, once martial laws declared,
the town people are gathered up by

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force. What makes this scene harrowing
is the fact that you can hear the

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fear and confusion of the townspeople.
Another trick is the ones gathering the people.

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Their voices are muddled. This was
intentionally done by Romero to show the

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confusion the government throws at its people
during times of unmitigated chaos. Right old

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nine hundred check Now you listen to
me. Rider Buck's been telling me what's

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going on here tonight. Well,
I don't mind telling you that nobody's got

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and I'm pushed around like this,
Sir, I know, we've just had

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no way of preparing anybody for this
girl. It's been a snowball on us

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and we were forced to take action. Now, you said it would never

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come to this. Look, we've
cooperated with you. We've attempted to keep

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this thing quiet in order not to
create a panic. But Christ, we

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never expected this. Neither did we, Sir. We're trying to get everyone

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into the high school, setting up
an infirmary. There are we under martial

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law? Yes, sir, well, let me tell you something. You

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just can't walk all over the people
of Evan City that easy, Major,

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And as mayor of this town,
I'm protesting your action. In fact,

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I'd like to speak to somebody higher
up party. Sir. We can't let

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the meet. I don't know how
long this quarantine will be in effect.

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I'm talking about the lives of the
citizens of the city. We're also talking

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about the lives of many of our
own men. Sir, well, you're

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a minute where we started. The
people of this town. Al Major anster

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Major rid with Colonel Peckham. I'll
take give me service, sir. At

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the Interstate Highway, one of the
trucks blet with massive sumpters. They have

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one of them that hurt any civilian
casuals three dad, sir, Now you

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just listen to me, mister.
In addition to being mayor of this town,

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I also happened to be a practicing
attorney, and I know the rights

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of civil laws touch and I want
a weaponstir so to the entire town that

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stars included, confiscate everything. Look
just a minute, I'm demanding a rider

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of habeas car sir. If I've
got to take your weapons now, you

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just hold off. Don't you give
them to him? Bucky, you don't

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have to give him to him?
Now, Look, you just can't push

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us around this way. Don't you
do it for me? Finally, martial

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law takes over the town. I'm
gonna listen up, listens up, warranting,

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We'll go all under. Martial law, will take all over the high

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school. We'll explain it to you
over there, explain it to you over

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very way. Hey, Hey,
you going around? Time make a good

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amer, j Hi pointing out here. We're not going up. Tell me

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what this is all about. Maybe
I'll cooperate with you. What's going on?

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Workout? Tell tell me what they're
doing? Crazy Mary? Where are

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we going? Where do I go? What I what? A question that

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you might be asking is why did
I choose this film? First? Well?

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I felt this film to all the
elements that George A. Romero does

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an exemplary Java, showing people fighting
against government control, the unraveling of humanity

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amongst chaos in the battle between science
in control by force. They are all

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here and presented in a manner that
leaves its impression on a viewer for all

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time. I wish I could tell
you that this film was a major success,

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that it won awards, that people
fawned over it. It didn't happen.

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This film was a box office disaster. It was released between Romero's zombie

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masterpieces, which we will cover later
this month, Night of the Living Dead

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and Dawn of the Dead. Of
note, there were also two other films,

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There Will Always Be Vanilla and The
Season of the Wit We're also released

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in between those two heavily favored films. Since being a meteoric box office failure,

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much like many of Romero's other films, it has gained a major cult

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following and an appreciation amongst not just
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It even received a remake in two
thousand and nine given the pandemic that the

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country has endured with COVID. This
film digs at the scars of those memories,

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but that should not drive you away
from viewing this film, because,

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after all, that is what horror
is for. To have our darkest fears

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in memories be realized income to the
surface. I hope you joined me next

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week when we will continue our month
long tribute to George A. Romero When

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We Look At Him and Stephen King
joining four for the nineteen eighty two anthology

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film creep Show for wm n H
and Matt Connerton Unleashed. This has been

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a classic film review with Eric Pilcher
and the Hells Firelight Leaby Happy, so

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Hellless? How can find the more? Day? Time? Sah, step

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I saw time, and while we
won't and while and I get so I

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can't one and so you find mehind
world, A world is your you can

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find the boy. He he he
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