Day of the Dead 2: Contagium
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium
NR | 18 October 2005 (USA)
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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.

Reviews
Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Lightdeossk Captivating movie !
Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
GL84 After finding a sealed canister on their grounds one day, inmates at a psychiatric hospital begin to undergo a strange metamorphosis and eventually learn the hospital was the site of a military accident involving a virus that brings the dead to life and now follow that action.This here turned out to be quite a terrible and overall disjointed effort. One of the biggest issues is the fact that the film takes so long to introduce the zombie pathogen that it's almost hard to believe that was the main focus of the plot the entire time. While the fact that they're changing throughout after being exposed and it generates a fair amount of tension as the deterioration keeps occurring and changing them, the fact that this takes place at a mental hospital means the entire time is spent around those that are way too mentally-stunted to understand the obvious, more-so how the virus got loose among them in the first place being the high-point of their stupidity that makes no sense were that to occur in the real world. As well, the fact that there's about ten different subplots surrounding the inmates that don't really make any real point of interest in the whole film that these combined efforts force the zombie carnage until the very end of the film. Even still, these scenes are rather lame with various extras being swarmed over by the zombies as they scream in panic yet nothing is shown of the body dismemberment or entrails removing that seems to pop-up in the scene, leaving the gore to remain in the opening carnage flashback scene as well as the assault at the end on the human assistants, which gets some points but overall, this isn't anything we haven't seen before and done better which leaves this one lacking considerably.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.
alistairc_2000 This is less of a review and more of a warning. You might be suckered into thinking that this trash has something to do with Romero's classic it has not.I was really interested to hear that they were going to make a sequel to G Romero's Day of the Dead, then I found out he was not involved. Just as well as this is number 3 on the all time terrible list for zombie movies. This movie has nothing to do with the first movie and has a first when you become a zombie you become telepathic... tele-pathetic more like... avoid this unless you enjoy pain......If they had let it stand on its own merits rather than trying to lay claim to a classic this would have just been pathetic. As it is its not so bad its good its just play bad. I love bad horror movies but this one left me completely cold. It was another one of those movies I suffered at Frought fest. That was when I could be bothered to go.
Joseph P. Ulibas Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005) is supposed to be a prequel of sorts to the George A. Romero film Day of the Dead. But the only things these films have in common are, one zombies and two the military. This movie works better as a stand alone film. It's not as bas as people have been making it out to be (but it's no classic either). I like zombie movies and I've seen some real dogs, but this one is actually quite good ( a lot better than that terrible remake that came out last year). If you like gory horror films then you'll want to pick up a copy. Just remember this isn't a Romero movie so don't get your hopes up. Lower the bar and your expectations wont be dashed.Recommended for a slow movie night
Elswet As a spin off of a sequel, this isn't bad. Not really. The premise may be ludicrous, but once one considers the source material this spins from, this story line seems quite logical, actually. We do tend to enslave anything we consider of lesser intelligence with stronger backs, so the idea of domesticating the zombies to perform manual labor tasks, etc. is not quite so strange.Considering the budget, this is not so bad, but I can say I am entirely thankful they did not continue with this line, and reverted back to the original "Dead" series.All in all? This is a franchise fan's movie. I won't say that casual viewers cannot enjoy it, but I generally would not expect it. It's bloody and visceral like the rest of the series, and not for younger viewers or the squeamish.It rates a 4.9/10 on the Movie Scale.It rates a 0/10 on the Romero Scale (It's NOT a Romero Film).It rates a 7.4/10 on the Splatter Scale from...the Fiend :.