In Romero’s rarely screened sci-fi horror, inhabitants of Evans City become crazed killers after a top-secret government bio-weapon infects the town’s water supply with a deadly virus.
The Army are ordered to shoot on sight, officials threaten to nuke the area while quarantined residents tote dynamite and knitting needles in a fight for survival. Contagion and chaos ensue in bloody Romero-style Armageddon.
The product of the crisis ridden early ’70s and chock full of confrontational social commentary, character-driven tension, dark humour, visceral cinematography and editing, The Crazies is a raw, humanist horror.
The perfect closing film for a riotous 13th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Artist in Profile Peggy Ahwesh shares Pittsburgh roots with Romero and worked on set with him in the early 1980s (with tasks including playing Dungeons & Dragons with Stephen King). We’re delighted that Peggy will introduce the screening.
Prior to the screening will be the announcement of the Berwick New Cinema Award 2017.
