00:01What the Crazies does, which I really enjoy about this movie, is that anyone in town could be infected with
00:06this disease and you don't know it.
00:08And it could be your wife, it could be your husband, it could be your best friend, it could be
00:12your mother, your father, your kid, anybody who happens to have consumed the water at the wrong time can get
00:18this disease and slowly becomes mad.
00:20And the idea of taking these people who are incredibly close to you, who are your closest, dearest friends and
00:24relatives, and suddenly turning them into homicidal maniacs who might go after to try and kill you or might just
00:30become crazy in some non-violent way, that's what I really, really responded to in the movie.
00:38The reality is that the core of this movie, the inception of the movie, is one that is based in
00:44a reality that can happen.
00:45I mean, there are, you know, biologically engineered weapons that exist, obviously, today, that were developed starting in the 50s,
00:5360s, 70s, 80s.
00:57One of the things that I loved about this movie is it takes place in the heartland of America, in
01:02middle America.
01:02It is these vast open spaces, these wheat fields and corn fields that go on for miles and miles, these
01:10endless plateaus of nothingness.
01:12And it's a really interesting, epic landscape.
01:20We spent a good portion of time scouting this movie.
01:25A lot of the movie, nothing was built in the movie from scratch.
01:27Everything was either found locations, manipulated locations, rebuilt locations, or, you know, locations as they were.
01:35So it was really a lot of scouting in this movie, a lot of traveling and finding the right places
01:40to shoot, and then to make them into what we needed them to be.
01:46We met with Rob Hall and just started R&Ding and figuring out what this design was going to be
01:50way early in the process.
01:52And we did a bunch of mock-ups.
01:53And in the early mock-ups, we played with ideas of creating sores and open sores around the mouth and
02:01the mucal membranes, the eyes and the nose.
02:03And as we did it, it kept looking like zombies.
02:06Like every time we did it, we manipulated and changed it.
02:08But every time that kind of concept of sores around the mouth, around the eyes, around the nose, no matter
02:14what we did, no matter how far we tried to push it from zombies, it always looked like a zombie.
02:18So then we threw that all away and started again from scratch and decided, well, what if we don't have
02:22any open sores, no blood at all?
02:25We just play it all under the skin, and that's what we ended up really having success with was the
02:30idea of like the bulging veins and the tight neck muscles.
02:35And we had, so what Rob does, he built these neck pieces that we can put on that when he,
02:39he'd take a life cast of people, which means they take a cast of the face and a cast of
02:43their neck,
02:43and he would have them tighten their necks as much as possible so that when he applied this neck piece
02:48onto, onto the crazies in a stage three, in a ladder stage,
02:50it looked as if all the muscles are constantly engaged and constantly tight, as if you had tetanus, and that
02:57was one of our reference we used was tetanus.
02:58And so then we started from that base, and then he has an entire face application he'd put on that,
03:04and then have these veins that he'd put on and then hide them under the skin with makeup,
03:07and it was really quite a successful and I think unique looking thing.
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