Synopsis
Not your average one night stand.
After being drugged and raped at a party, a young woman contracts what she thinks is an STD, but it's actually something much worse.
2013 Directed by Eric England
After being drugged and raped at a party, a young woman contracts what she thinks is an STD, but it's actually something much worse.
Инфекция, Contágio Letal, Zaraza, Contracted - Fase I, スリーデイズ・ボディ 彼女がゾンビになるまでの3日間, Зараженная, 神秘感染, A fertőzött, 컨트랙티드, Contracted: Phase I, 7步成屍, 屍控一夜情, Bệnh Truyền Nhiễm, Інфекція
DO MEN KNOW THE DEFINITION OF LESBIAN??? if i see one more piece of media where a lesbian character ends up sleeping with a man i am going to fucking lose it
Part of HOOPT🚨BER 7.0: “Stay Inside (the Salt Circle)!” challenge.
15/31
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One of the most recurring problems in horror movies, especially indie, is the excess of subplots and conflicts that take screen time off the most important element in the plot.
Here, the protagonist Samantha, in addition to dealing with what she thinks is a STD contracted after having sex with a stranger, also has to deal with her annoying girlfriend who doesn't know what she wants, her drug addiction, her job as a waitress, the terrible relationship with her mother, a stalker in love with her, a jealous friend and a flower contest (?) that she wants to win.
The bloody body horror is constantly in the background…
This is the movie I watched with my family on Christmas. It’s pretty dumb and bad, but was worth watching because there’s a part where maggots fall out of a woman’s vagina, and my mom referred to them as “vag-gots”.
Samantha gets wasted at a party then ends up frolicking in the back-seat of a car with a dodgy guy and before you know it, her vagina is dead and the rest of her body is not far behind.
I liked the idea of showing a zombie transformation in the style of a body horror movie, but rather annoyingly, Contracted tells you exactly what's happening far too early, leaving very little to the imagination and it constantly struggles to create any suspense as a result.
Najarra Townsend as the soon-to-be-undead Samantha, is well cast and watchable, but the rest of the performances are a poor fit, particularly Samantha's estranged lover and her chirpy best friend who are cartoonish to the…
Is this an allegory of how rape makes victims feel like? The movie portrayed the victim of the rape as dead, ugly, diseased, life out of control, no one understands and I'm all alone.
The STD or much worse virus, can come to mean the effects of the attack and psychology how people that care for the victim can be effected by it. The criminal attack spreads outward. Those that judge be damned.
Assailants of rape are monsters, dehumanizing, demoralizing monsters.
Well, that happened…
It def has its grossly disturbing moments and some I may never forget lol, but not much other than its simple premise. Shit starts hitting the fan pretty quick tho and I can appreciate that. Just the acting and dialog were pretty bad at times, and the characters…even worse. 5.5/10 🪱
The concept was intriguing enough to override all of the negative reviews! While I don't care for the film, as a zombie aficionado I'm glad I had seen it!
I view this film as a missed opportunity! It had potential but quite possibly for budgetary reasons it was not a viable option! The idea of the zombie virus accelerating at a much slower pace and presenting initial symptoms that don't immediately identify the culprit was a refreshing idea!
They didn't exploit the true nature of their film! They didn't create a carrier that spreads this disease on a massive scale. Nor did they treat it like the threat (pandemic) that it was! Both of these elements could have turned this…
Young lesbian is drugged and raped by a strange man who crashed her friend's party. She soon realizes she's been infected with something deadly, as her body starts to deteriorate.
78min small scale horror that takes the notion of unprotected sex to a whole other level. It opens at a morgue with the antagonist seemingly having some sort of sexual encounter with a corpse, thus, procuring the disease.
We follow Samantha over 3 days as the symptoms from that night manifests in the form of unnatural amounts of bleeding (resulting in lots of bloody toilet scenes), hyper sensitivity, rotting flesh, discolored eyes and vagina maggots.
Even as everyone around her can see she's falling apart and are aware that the…
Very effective body-horror movie with just the right amount of squirm to engage, not fully repulse, viewers.