The Crazies (2010)

The movie starts in the small, quiet town of Ogden Marsh, Iowa, where everything seems idyllic. David Dutton is the local sheriff, and his wife, Judy, is a nurse. One day, during a high school baseball game, a man named Rory Hamill suddenly enters the field holding a shotgun. David tries to calm him down, but when Rory refuses to drop the weapon, David has no choice but to shoot him, killing him in front of the shocked crowd.

Soon after, strange events begin to unfold in Ogden Marsh. David and his deputy, Russell Clank, start receiving reports of erratic and violent behavior from several residents. The first incident occurs at a local family's farm when the father sets his house on fire, taking his wife and son hostage, and ultimately killing them all. David and Russell investigate the scene, discovering a small airplane carrying an unknown liquid had crashed into the nearby river.

As the days go by, more residents show signs of erratic behavior. David and Judy's neighbor, Bill Farnum, becomes violent toward his wife, which leads David to investigate the local water supply for possible contamination. David and Russell discover that the mysterious liquid from the crashed airplane has contaminated the town's water source, turning the residents into violent and irrational "crazies."

David contacts the county government to ask for help, but instead, a military unit led by Sergeant Nicholas Carver is dispatched to Ogden Marsh. Carver and his team impose a strict quarantine, separating the infected from the uninfected. David and Russell find themselves trapped, suspecting that the military's true purpose is to eliminate all the infected and cover up the incident.

As chaos ensues, David, Russell, and Judy escape the quarantine zone, determined to find a way to bring the truth to the outside world and rescue the remaining uninfected residents. Their search leads them to an abandoned school, where they find a group of survivors hiding. Among them is Judy's father, who reveals that the military was experimenting with the dangerous virus as a bioweapon.

The group forms a plan to escape the town using the old truck belonging to the local mortician, who had been collecting bodies infected by the virus. However, Carver and his soldiers track them down, resulting in a deadly confrontation. David and Russell manage to kill Carver and his men, but not without losses, as Judy sacrifices herself to save David.

The remaining survivors, including David, Russell, and Judy's father, successfully escape Ogden Marsh in the mortician's truck. They drive through the night, determined to spread the truth about the virus and expose the government's involvement in the town's demise. A news broadcast reveals how the military has covered up the incident and falsely labeled the events as a terrorist attack. The surviving residents of Ogden Marsh, now refugees, are denied compensation and support, left to deal with the traumatic aftermath on their own.