Sit here and die

Things escalate very quickly. One person falls ill, and soon the entire small town is plagued by a severe epidemic. Because of the outbreak, there are plans to destroy the town anyway—to wipe it off the map, to burn it to the ground. Escape is the only option. Breck Eisner’s The Crazies (2010) is an excellent zombie romp that ticks all the right boxes, yet it has gone largely unnoticed and faded into obscurity.