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Contracted (2013)

Contracted poster
Directed by
Eric England
Genre
drama film, horror film, zombie film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 18m
Rated
R
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 549 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman is raped and then develops a mysterious sexually transmitted disease. As her body deteriorates, she struggles to understand what is happening to her.

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What happens

Contracted is a 2013 American zombie-body horror independent film written and directed by Eric England. It was first released on November 23, 2013, in the United States and stars Najarra Townsend as a young woman that finds herself suffering from a mysterious sexually transmitted disease after a rape. It has been compared to the 2012 film Thanatomorphose, with which it shares similarities. Twitch Film has criticized the movie for its marketing, in which England describes the character Samantha's rape as a "one night stand". Some of the cast from the first film reprise their roles in the 2015 sequel, Contracted: Phase II, written by Craig Walendziak and directed by Josh Forbes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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