Feeling more Dawn
of the Dead than helplessly infirmed, the titular creatures are impressively made - up in increasingly horrifying ways, but they sum up the major problem Crazies faces as it continues down a
path of doom: it prefers horror over
suspense.
Academy - award winning director William Friedkin discusses his early career — including making documentaries for David L. Wolper, working for Alfred Hitchcock and what he learned from studying his films, and directing his first movie Good Times (1967), starring Sonny and Cher; how his career
path led to making The Exorcist, his initial reaction to reading the source material, the story's theme
of Good versus Evil, and the role his own faith played in his approach to making the movie; the techniques he used to generate
suspense and fear in the audience, his use
of subliminal imagery, and his reasons for recently restoring deleted footage to the film.