Yes thats right. Yet another horror movie is being remade. this time around its a remake of the 1973 George A. Romero flick The Crazies. The good folks over at BloodyDisgusting have provided a full synopsis.

Imagine living in a small town where everything is safe and happy…until suddenly it isn’t. Imagine your friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane. In a terrifying tale of the “American Dream” gone horribly wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in their hometown in The Crazies, a reinvention of the George Romero classic directed by Breck Eisner from a screenplay by Ray Wright (Pulse, Case 39) and Scott Kosar (The Amityville Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).

David Dutten (Timothy Olyphant) is sheriff of Ogden Marsh, a picture-perfect American town with happy, law-abiding citizens. But one night, one of them comes to a school baseball game with a loaded shotgun, ready to kill. Another man burns down his own house…after locking his wife and young son in a closet inside. Within days, the town has transformed into a sickening asylum; people who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives have now become depraved, blood-thirsty killers, hiding in the darkness with guns and knives. Sheriff Dutten tries to make sense of what’s happening as the horrific, nonsensical violence escalates. Something is infecting the citizens of Ogden Marsh…with insanity.

Now complete anarchy reigns as one by one the townsfolk succumb to an unknown toxin and turn sadistically violent. In an effort to keep the madness contained, the government uses deadly force to close off all access and won’t let anyone in or out – even those uninfected. The few still sane find themselves trapped: Sheriff Dutten; his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell); Becca (Danielle Panabaker), an assistant at the medical center; and Russell (Joe Anderson), Dutten’s deputy and right-hand man. Forced to band together, an ordinary night becomes a horrifying struggle for survival as they do their best to get out of town alive.

I have always thought the people going insane was truly the most horrific. Lets be honest, horror movies that have a monster arent really that scary, but, the ones that involve regular everyday people are the ones that stick in your mind long after you leave the theater. Because you never knew who around you might end up losing it and start chopping folks to bits.

Overture Films is set to produce the flick which will be directed by Breck Eisner. The film stars Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Reegan, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson and Justin Welborn. The remake train is at full speed these days. This is obviously a film that is not immune to it. At the very least there is some good talent in the flick. Timothy Olyphant has proven himself to be a great actor and I have been a fan of Radha Mitchell for years. So at least there is some talent behind this one. Hopefully it will all work.