
The Crazies
1973 · MovieSoldiers in white suits and gas masks seal off a sleepy Pennsylvania town after a secret germ weapon gets into the water supply. Neighbors start turning violent, and nobody can tell who's infected.
Survival horror strands its characters with limited resources against a killer, a creature or the elements, and asks how far they'll go to make it out. Strip everything away and horror becomes very simple. Stay alive. Curated survival horror puts characters in situations where that's the only objective, and then makes it nearly impossible. The genre is a stress test. The best entries here pass it.

Soldiers in white suits and gas masks seal off a sleepy Pennsylvania town after a secret germ weapon gets into the water supply. Neighbors start turning violent, and nobody can tell who's infected.

A sheriff and a team of cavers take an amnesiac Sarah back into the cave system to find her missing friends. Something is still alive in the tunnels.

Residents of Staten Island are paid $5,000 to stay put for a government trial of twelve lawless hours, and a neighborhood drug boss and a young activist each have to decide how they will get through the night.

Adela and Juan, a Mexican couple building a new life in Texas, make it through Purge night behind the walls of a guarded compound, then wake to find that some of the killers have no plans to stop at sunrise.

Justine joins a group of college activists flying into the Amazon to save the rainforest. Their plane goes down in the jungle, the tribe that finds them is hungry, and getting out proves impossible.

A family heading west takes a shortcut through empty Nevada desert, and when their trailer breaks down, the people who have been watching them from the rocky hills come calling after dark.

A family's desert shortcut ends near an abandoned nuclear test zone where a community has been surviving for generations in ways the government would rather not acknowledge.

A squad of National Guard trainees is sent into the New Mexico desert to resupply a team of scientists at a military base. The base is deserted, and the mutants from the first film are waiting.

A motocross team takes a desert shortcut and ends up near the hills where a previous group of people had a very bad time. The same people are still there.

Jack, a methodical intellectual killer, narrates his crimes across a twelve-year span and asks the audience to follow his logic.

Mari Collingwood and a friend are lured to a motel room by a boy they just met, and his family of escaped killers is waiting. When the gang later takes shelter in the Collingwoods' lake house, Mari's parents find out exactly who they let in.

Fifty boys, one from each state, set out on the Long Walk, a national event in an alternate America where the last walker standing wins a fortune and one wish, and the rest die where they stop.

Artist Perempuán wakes up in the Pit to find the prisoners have made their own Law: everyone eats only the dish they chose, and anyone who takes more is punished.

One night per year, all crime including murder is legal. The Sandin family locks down their home for the evening.

One Marine searching for his missing sister, one executive settling a score at work, one married couple courting rich investors at a lavish party: all of their paths run through the one night a year when every crime is allowed.

The sirens wail across Los Angeles, and strangers end up stranded on the open streets: a waitress and her daughter forced from home, a quarreling couple whose car dies at the worst moment, and an armed loner chasing a private revenge.

Vowing to abolish the yearly bloodbath has made one presidential candidate the most wanted woman in Washington, D.C., and when Purge night arrives, her head of security has to keep her alive on the streets until morning.

Four men take a memorial hike through the Scandinavian wilderness and find a shortcut through forest that has been maintaining its own agenda.

Two friends stranded at a remote farmhouse. Silence becomes the threat. Something is already there with them and it knows the house better than they do.

The second chapter of the Strangers reboot trilogy picks up right after Maya's first encounter, as Scarecrow, Dollface and Pin-Up Girl chase her from the hospital into the woods around Venus.
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