
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium
Seen it?2005 | 103 min | Horror
Why it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- A natural pick for zombie fans and anyone who enjoys a good scare. The undead are the backdrop; how people treat each other is the real story. Shelve it next to Resident Evil or 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
- The mood
- Scary.
- The pace
- Tense from early on, at 1 hr 43 min.
- What might put you off
- Skip it if you scare easily or watch alone at night.
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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 12K people sought it out in the past year
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by James Glenn Dudelson, Ana Clavell
- Laurie BaranyayEmma
- Stan KlimeckoBoris
- John Freedom HenryJackie
- Justin IpockIsaac
- Julian ThomasSam
- Stephan WolfertDonwynn
- Joe C. MarinoMarshall
- Andreas van RayDr. Heller
- Brandon EllisonBall
- Gia FranziaNurse