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The Crazies

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1. #001

   The lead actor of the original The Crazies (1973) plays an infected local who rides a bicycle through the deserted center of town in this remake.

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2. #002

   The old police car they return to retrieve is a 1973 Ford LTD, the same year the original The Crazies was released.

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3. #003

   Every actor who turns into a "Crazy" had to sit in the makeup chair for three hours.

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4. #004

   The end title sequence includes a news broadcast featuring people reporting that they saw a large fireball over the Ogden Marsh area. The news anchor, Bruce Aune, is a real-life anchor for KCRG Channel 9, the local ABC affiliate in Cedar Rapids, IA. KCRG's actual logo is also shown during the broadcast.

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5. #005

   If you read the graffiti on the jail cell wall, it says "Romero," a reference to George A. Romero, director of the original The Crazies (1973).

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6. #006

   Part of the filming took place in Lenox, IA. Lenox was the opposing team in the baseball scene early in the film.

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7. #007

   When the sheriff discovers the military plane, a satellite records his location as 40.851216 and -94.548340. These coordinates actually point to Iowa, but they show farmland rather than the marshes depicted. The town of Lenox, population 1401, is the closest real town to these coordinates.

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8. #008

   It was the 12th film to be released in select D-BOX-equipped theaters in the US and Canada. According to D-BOX, the motion-control technology "delivers realistic sensations throughout most of the film's action scenes, contributing to the film's story and its underlying themes of horror, terror and explosive action."

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9. #009

   The plane shown by satellite actually crashes at 41.779412, -94.467130. It crashes in Springbrook Lake in Iowa. The larger body of water seen in the bottom right corner of the last few frames of the satellite imagery is Panorama Lake in Iowa, a popular summer getaway lake. The town of Lennox, Iowa (where parts of the film were shot and which it is based on) is about 70 miles away.

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10. #010

    This is the second horror remake starring Danielle Panabaker, the other being Friday the 13th (2009). Her character does not survive in either.

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11. #011

    This was Megan Ann Hensley's first acting role.

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12. #012

    Timothy Olyphant and Joe Anderson had previously worked together on High Life (2009).

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13. #013

    Timothy Olyphant would go on to play another law enforcement role in the series Justified (2010), as US Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens. Both works were released in 2010.

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