In the 2010 film The Crazies, what Iowa town is affected by the outbreak?

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Ogden Marsh is the Iowa town affected by the outbreak in the 2010 film The Crazies.

The film follows Sheriff David Dutton and his wife Judy as residents of Ogden Marsh become violently unpredictable after a contaminant reaches the town’s water supply. The resulting crisis brings military intervention, quarantines, and attempts by survivors to escape.

The Crazies is a remake of George A. Romero’s 1973 film of the same name. The remake was directed by Breck Eisner and stars Timothy Olyphant as David Dutton and Radha Mitchell as Judy. Its infected inhabitants are not traditional zombies, but the movie is commonly grouped with outbreak and zombie cinema because of its apocalyptic survival structure.

Ogden Marsh is fictional. Raccoon City belongs to Resident Evil, Haddonfield to Halloween, and Derry to Stephen King’s It, so those familiar horror locations are not correct here.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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