{"id":669784,"date":"2010-02-19T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e201310f1e1903970c"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:35:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:35:24","slug":"the-variety-of-diversions-involving-the-crazies-is-a-bit-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/669784","title":{"rendered":"The variety of diversions involving &#8216;The Crazies&#8217; is a bit insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrazies-movie.com\/comicbooks\/\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crazies\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834519bc269e201310f1e148a970c \" src=\"http:\/\/brandmediaweek.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834519bc269e201310f1e148a970c-250wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 223px; height: 342px;\"><\/img><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Could it be that these promotions, bits of new content, games and apps for <em>The Crazies<\/em> are infinitely more sophisticated than the horror flick they&#8217;re selling? Well, they&#8217;re way ahead of the original source material, that&#8217;s for sure. <em>The Crazies<\/em>, for non-cult fans, was first a 1973 B-movie about a bucolic Pennsylvania town where the folks just go plain loco and homicidal mania ensues. (Hint: It&#8217;s something in the water, and the government&#8217;s to blame). Written and directed by legendary horror maven George Romero, <em>The Crazies<\/em> had a reported micro-mini-budget of $275,000. The remake, from Overture Films and Participant Media, not only has a few stars on the bill\u2014Timothy Olyphant as the town&#8217;s sheriff\u2014but much better (read: more expensive) special effects. As for the surrounding hype, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrazies-movie.com\/comicbooks\/\" >traditional comics<\/a>, a four-part <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrazies-movie.com\/motioncomictrailer\" >animated comic series<\/a>, a Facebook game called <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/crazies\" >The Crazies Tower Defense<\/a>, an iPhone app dubbed &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/the-crazies\/id349550509?mt=8\" >Beware the Infected<\/a>&quot; (where you can doctor photos of yourself and others to look like Ogden Marsh&#8217;s whacked-out inhabitants) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrazies-movie.com\/#\/battlemail\" >an online game<\/a> that lets you make fight videos to share. That should be enough to keep you busy until the movie launches Feb. 26. Try to stay sane! <\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by T.L. Stanley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be that these promotions, bits of new content, games and apps for The Crazies are infinitely more sophisticated than the horror flick they&#8217;re selling? Well, they&#8217;re way ahead of the original source material, that&#8217;s for sure. The Crazies, for non-cult fans, was first a 1973 B-movie about a bucolic Pennsylvania town where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OeY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}