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The Crazies (Trixie infected)

Also called: Code Name: Trixie
FilmInfected, still aliveA virus1968 to 1999

In Romero's 1973 film a leaked bioweapon contaminates a town's water and leaves residents either dead or homicidally insane. Nobody dies and comes back: the infected are alive. The film failed at the box office and was remade in 2010.1

Battle it
First appeared
1973
Released 1973
Source work
The Crazies (1973)
George A. Romero
Made in
USA
What causes it
A virus
A military bioweapon code-named Trixie contaminates a town's water supply after an Army plane crashes.
How you become one
Exposure to the highly contagious virus; victims either die or become hysterical and homicidally insane.

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today1973

Released 1973

field notes

What the sources say

1

The infected are living people driven violently mad, not the dead1

2

A possible cure is lost when infected townspeople stampede1

3

Also released as Code Name: Trixie1

4

A box-office failure in 1973; remade in 20101

5

Shot in Evans City and Zelienople, Pennsylvania, for about 275,000 dollars1

Sources

  1. The Crazies (1973 film) - Wikipedia

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