I just realized that this disease isn't just dangerous by the obvious means as an infectious disease, but the fact that the infected are functional enough to aim a gun and pull the trigger should be a bigger concern What if someone higher up such as the president and his staff were to get infected, someone who has access to launching nuclear weapons on the globe during the peak of infection
Well, it's not like the President physically has the ability one-to-one to just launch nukes on a whim. Big misconception that really makes no sense. He has the codes which can be sent to silos and subs to launch nuclear weaponry. And I doubt any of them would follow orders upon hearing a disease causing psychotic, murderous tendencies was spreading across the nation.
Connor O'Hare you should read the comic CROSSED. It’s like the Crazies but far more graphic and terrifying. What you just said happened at some points in the comics. Be aware it’s totally NSFW and NSFL
We used to call our hand scanners, at the grocery store, “guns” until a panicked customer heard someone say “I lost my gun”. So we had to refer to the as handhelds
@@generalatom2175 I mean it is funny, but I know if I heard it, I'd leave the store lmao. This is America, the chance of someone having a gun -and loosing it- is very high
The most chilling part of this movie was when the FO operative casually explained where it came from and just how little control his paymasters had over the situation.
I take some consolation though that in a situation like this, the response would definitely be more big, coordinated, and fast IRL. Even if it was a black flight - if it was carrying a bio weapon and it crashed they wouldn’t just chill around the town and inspect how the people are. They would already be there by the time the plane hit the ground or moments after. Shouldn’t be a surprise but transports carrying biological weapons are tracked very closely. They would already have the CDC involved, and they would have immediately shut off the water and likely moved the people out of the affected area. 110% asses would be reamed and brought to court martial for letting it happen in the first place, but the military and agencies like the CDC do not fuck around when it comes to bio-weapons. (Also, biological weapons are never flown, at least in my experience. They’re always in a secure transport on the ground with a full security detail and a conga line of QRF. It doesn’t make the movie any less scary, but if they dropped the ball this bad, we would all be fucked.)
I just want to say I really love what you do. This is one of the only channels on RU-vid that genuinely genuinely has unique content. Thanks for the entertainment.
2010's *The Crazies* is one of my all-time favorite outbreak films and, given what I've learned about the history of biological weaponry over the years, one of the most frighteningly quasi-plausible. A longtime family friend of mine works for the department of defense and has knowledge of this exact subject. Though there are obviously things he can't tell us, he's shared the occasional tidbit. Given what I know today, especially how believable it is that the govt. could screw up in this exact manner depicted, the scenario itself isn't so far-fetched at all despite the fictional pathogen. Many zombie genre fans have compared *The Crazies* and its "Trixie" virus (rhabdovirdae prototype) infected to the *28 Days Later* franchise's rage-infected, though I respectfully disagree.
Granted, I do acknowledge the titular "crazies"' superficial similarities to *28 Days-Weeks Later's* rage-infected (mental deterioration, violent insanity, orifice hemorrhaging, etc). Nonetheless, I don't consider these traits alone sufficient to qualify them as zombie-like. The criteria are simply too broad and would stretch the genre's standards too loosely. By such logic, any killer or psycho suffering from a form of mind-altering affliction could potentially be called "zombie-like", which would dilute what originally made the genre unique. What sets the crazies apart in context is that they share very few traditional zombie-like tropes outside being infected with a virus that transforms them into irrational killers. Apart from that, they're about as easy to kill as ordinary humans *(28 Days-Weeks Later's* infected are arguably more resilient) and retain memories of who they are much longer. Also, even the more primal late-stage infected retain enough intelligence to use tools & weapons as well as teamwork, setting traps and coordinating strategic attacks. Lastly, unlike most zombie-like creatures, the crazies don't bite or display any cannibalistic behaviors. Overall, at best, I'd classify Trixie's infected as terminally ill dementia victims.
Keith 28 days later are not zombies, the problem is 28 weeks where it starts making them more like zombies, i.e still alive after having their limbs chopped off by helicopter. Why i hate 28 weeks.
@@samw2670 i mean its likely you wont die for a while if you have some limbs chopped off. Hell people have still been able to live fairly long after being bisected.
The stinger after the movie's end credits suggests that David managed to ignite infection in Cedar Rapids, so at least one more town was probably going to get nuked. I've always wondered if Russell was actually infected in the first place, or if the stress just made him snap. He didn't show any of the outward physical symptoms (he didn't get a nosebleed until he was punched in the face), and getting punched seemed to snap him out of it.
No they ignited a cordon and sanitation situation. The military will be more dangerous to the population than any disease. Also in Fear the Walking Dead at the end the govt instigated a genocidal kill order suspecting all as infected so murder was their final order of civilians.
@@RoanokeGaming Can you do the Blood Glacier Bacteria and it's creatures please Also if one thing I noticed from that movie,the bacteria creates new species
The part I loved about this movie was the containment and final solution. It is exactly how the powers that be would contain it. There would also be a fall guy (a nation/group) that the government would declare war on, saying the civilian killings and nuclear strikes were not done by their own military. And, sad but true, the way the virus was handled in the movie would be the only way to actually handle it in a way that works with (ironically) the lowest body count.
Rabies is terrifying. I live in the deep South and down here if you see an animal acting strange, it is shot on sight, no questions asked. It's almost always a coyote or raccoon in my area, they walk really strange and don't run away from you as soon as they see you. When they don't run, you already know.
Want to hear a Joke, An coronavirus walks into a bar. The Bartender says, "We don't serve infectious diseases here" The virus replies, "Well, you’re not a very good host.’”
I know it's a bit unconventional, but I'd really like you to revisit the creatures of the *Metro* series and examine some of the drastic changes that *Metro Exodus* brought to the Mutants' designs and what they entail.
I still want a sequel to the 2010 film... I really enjoyed the setup, the writing, all of it and a sequel to that perfect movie to me would be incredible even if it's been a decade now.. 😔
They knew where it was when it crashed. But at that point, crashing in the water supply, there was no containing it. It's not like they'd go there and try to scoop the plane out of the water, the damage was already done. At that point, the crash site essentially became the same as ground zero for a nuclear detonation.....no point in going there, because there's nothing to do there but get infected.
If anybody in any military suggests engineering a virus to use as a weapon, they should be forced to watch this movie and see why biological warfare is outlawed.
I think at this point pretty much everyone in every military knows that a weaponised virus is a bad idea. You can pretty easily ensure a bomb doesn't hurt your allies, but a virus doesn't have a limit to its radius
Infected, not zombies. Best example of the difference is World War Z the book (that disturbed the fuck out of CDC and other medical people for being so accurate) would be reanimated. Where as NOT World War Z the abomination of a movie that was clearly rewritten by a narcist is a bad version of infected.
10:50 as someone who was a survivor and victim of a motor vehicle hitting a pedestrian. I can confirm all of this is true. Even had to get on some meds to help deal with the random violent outbursts and just generally snapping. Which was extremely different for me.
Hello RoanokeGaming! I found your channel originally through watching first your video on The Thing Super Cell Parasite Explored, and I must say you explain things very direct and easy to understand. It's been great listening and learning about these things, to also help make it understandable how fictious diseases and such might indeed work in the real world. I hope you will continue to make such videos!
I would love to see Roanoke to legitimately cover the zombies in SAS 3 and 4, I know that's never going to happen though, very sadly but a man can dream.
Rape-Virus. Basicly thats it, there was no real explanation where it came from, how it spread globaly in what seems like mere hours or days and i dont hink they are ever going to give us an answer. Altough... coming to think of it in the comic "The Red Line" was something that was possibly a hint at something supernatural.... gonna re-read that one.
Another great video! I love how deep you go into the anatomy and physiology of diseases. As a paramedic i often wonder what these infections would be like in real life. Morbid curiosity 😂
I think this may be my favorite RU-vid channel. Your Scientific explanations for even my favorite Games is actually intense. Everything you explain is extremely interesting.... bruh I might pay you to do more
Why would they name a virus meant to dumb down and agitate large groups of people after The Great And Powerful Trixie; greatest and most powerful pone of all time;beautiful genius and master of all magic? I guess we'll never know.
I just remembered an older movie I was watching where they mistook the hydrophobia associated with rabies as a general psych hydrophobia. So the ticking clock in the movie was whether or not the guy would be scared of the lake outside his home as his family rushed to get someone that could fly him out of his secluded home in the mountains.
They probably thought they could save people at first but than noticed "well these people aren't exactly gonna keep their mouth quite about the US Government violating their rights" so they mowed em down.
@@steel749 well that and also we know that people can asymptotically carry the virus and they probably didn’t want the carriers to pass the disease along.
I remember watching this movie once when I was younger. Tho I enjoyed it, I was a bit bummed out it wasn't a zombie movie. However now being an adult and watching you break down this virus, I definitely want to rewatch the movie again. Honestly enjoyed this video and out of every fictional virus outbreak movie, this one pretty scary as to how something like this can very well be made. No reanimating the day, or Uber crazy incubation time like Rage virus....just a scary combo of rabies and ebola. Thanks for making these amazing videos btw!
The repetition thing kind of reminds me of how in Vincent Ward's Alien 3, characters start mumbling or ranting or singing things before the Alien emerges from their heads.
The Crazies is one of those movies that after seeing real life people who are more than willing to spread the you know what virus currently sodomizing the globe, it makes this movie not seem too farfetched after all.
At this point if any new zombie or outbreak movie doesn’t have people willingly getting bit by zombies calling the infection a conspiracy then it’ll be a truly fictitious movie.
In the movie, when quarantining the town became impossible, they dropped a nuclear bomb to incinerate everything. If I remember correctly, their cover-up for the nuclear explosion was a nuclear meltdown at a nearby nuclear power plant. That's a pretty shitty cover-up, in my opinion.
I remember watching this as a kid, it actually freaked me out for awhile, now that I look bad, I realize what a great movie it was. On top of that, one of my favorite infection movies, I guess you could say it was... Crazy :b
With all these videos on movies, I would once again suggest a video on the Andromeda strain. I also highly recommend the book by the name which the movie was based on.
I highly recommend you read the book by Robert h Wilson which takes the Andromeda strain situation to a new level it's called Andromeda evolution and I highly highly recommend it
Yes! I forgot about this movie, I've seen it a dew times and really loved it. I find the virus fascinating and I dare say...more grounded than others? Thanks for doing a video on this, after watching your 28 days/weeks later video I had thought about this film. My wishes came true.
I love the movie stuff; keep it up! Tbh, my mom was a bio major. All I do is draw indie comics, but I grew up in a nerd fam, so this is GREAT fun for me to listen to while I work!
2:45 that scene makes me feel so uncomfortable. I can look at stuff that’s underwater (usually ocean) but it always makes me feel uneasy and this scene kinda scared my core.
A fun fact: this movie was filmed in a small iowa town called Lenox, I know this because I use to live there. The police station was actually the bank. Also in the beginning of the movie the two boys riding bikes are actually my cousins
The most realistic interpretation of “zombies” next to 28 days later. Probably the movie that spooked me the most next to war of the worlds. There should be more lore behind this movie because a lot went unexplained. Guess that makes it more mysterious.
The story of the guy, Phineas, who gets the pole through the head, is gnarly. Simon Whistler has a video on him and it's just crazy af how he survived and how much it helped us map out the brain and stuff like that
I tried to follow the video, but I've lived in Iowa my whole life and I'm like 99% sure marshes don't exist in the great plains and this bugged me immensely.
So I love horror stories but cannot stand jump scares in horror movies and games. These videos are perfect because I love scientific break downs and TLDR movie summaries.
