Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005) movie poster

Day of the Dead 2: Contagium

2005 ·1h 43m · ★ 3.0 (81)

In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent to the hospital to eliminate the infected staff and interns but private DeLuca steals a test tube with the virus and hides it inside a vacuum flask. He is transformed into a zombie and killed but the vacuum flask falls in the grass. In the present days, a group of patients in the mental institution Ravenside Memorial Hospital finds the vacuum flask and later when one of them opens the vessel, the culture tube drops on the floor of a bathroom contaminating the group and their Dr. Donwynn.

Why it matters
2 horror films in catalog

Horror DNA

Gore
85
Slow Burn
66
Psychological
29
Supernatural
0
Creature
73
Disturbing
83
Fun Factor
33
Cerebral
14
Survival
100
Zombie

Content Warnings

Body HorrorCannibalismDehumanizationMedical Gore

Phobia triggers

TMDB Keywords

prequelvirus

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