Riley searches for a cure to the virus that took over Samantha before it consumes him and the entire world.

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Paul Evans from Swansea, United Kingdom
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Now I get that when you like someone you're willing to put up with a little bit, but Riley bless him, it's fair to say Samantha wasn't looking her best when he made out with her, it's all i'm saying, everyone around poor Samantha was a little dense.

The sequel in some ways is a step up from the original, even more scenes to shock and gross you out, but as a film it's done on a much bigger scale, the first one was fairly insular, the second is similar but on a much bigger scale. It does somewhat turn into the typical Zombie movie, shocks, gore, cops etc, but it's worth watching.

It picks up exactly where the last one left off, after Sam infected Riley it concentrates on his story, his degeneration and battle to save himself and expose what's caused it. The scenes of Riley's degeneration are gross, don't have a hot dog watching this movie.

It's not on the Christmas wish list, but if this is your kind of film, you'll enjoy it to a point, i think we were left knowing that there'll be a third. 6/10

The moral, never lie to your Doctor!!

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emberstonepierce from Brighton, UK
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Having thoroughly enjoyed the first installment, I wasn't sure that a sequel could really add much to the general plot line. I'm happy to say that I was pleasantly surprised by the impressive acting, well rounded characters and introduction of a whole back-story to the original film. This movie works well as both a sequel and a stand alone feature, so you don't have to have seen the first film to enjoy this one. Although lacking the shocking impact of the first, this film is an explanation of the protagonist and their motives, as well as exploring what people have 'Contracted' in more detail and depth. A great new spin on the usual offerings within this genre and well worth an evenings viewing.

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Carrigon from United States
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Wow, this one is GOOD. It was miles above the first movie.

The movie starts exactly where the first one left off. And then we switch to Riley, who has now become infected. And he's basically rotting away just like Sam did. And unfortunately, he is infecting several people along the way. We do get all the gross out moments and there are maggots.

There is also a detective and Riley tries to help her find BJ, the crazy guy who started it all. And there are some really good scenes with zombies and police officers and you can see how the disease spreads so easily.

The movie did an excellent job of fully explaining how the zombie outbreak started. There are a few unanswered questions and there's even a scene after some of the credits. I'm sure if they do a third movie it will give those answers.

The ending was excellent. Really well done. I don't think you'll be disappointed with this movie. It's much better than average. I felt it was worth watching every scene. I would recommend watching both the first and the second movie back to back because it's just kind of like one long movie they split into two. I hope they do a third.

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Vivekmaru45 from Kenya
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This film is only 1 hours 18 minutes including end credits which is slightly shorter than the previous one, which had a run-time of 1 hour 24 minutes. The film has more special effects than the previous film and has a better plot.

Some characters from the first one reprise their role. The actress that played Samantha from the first film isn't in the film. The film shifts to phase 2, which means that the necroa virus is in the spreading phase. Since it is so highly contagious, it comes into notice of certain members of the F.B.I. Riley(Matt Mercer) who had sex with Samantha in the first film has now contracted the virus and it is now rapidly turning him into a zombie. He rushes to a doctor who takes a blood sample and tells him to wait for the results to arrive. Meanwhile Matt thinks back to the time Samantha was raped by an unknown stranger who passed this infection to her. Matt decides to track down this stranger in the hopes of finding a cure.

Verdict: the special-effects in the film are very good. There is a lot more action(even sub-machine gun action at one point) in this film. The acting and direction is okay to make this film above average. Again this film to me is just a time-pass film which I'll never watch again or add to my collection.

More Zombi Movies? Zombie 2(1979 Lucio Fulci Masterpiece), Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974), Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (1981), George Romero's Zombie Trilogy: Night of the Living Dead (1968 colorized version available), Dawn of the Dead (1978 cult status film and considered to be the best zombie film ever made), Day Of The Dead(1985), C.H.U.D. (1984), C.H.U.D. II - Bud the Chud (1989), The Return of the Living Dead (1985), Return of the Living Dead II (1988), Return of the Living Dead III (1993 a.k.a Mortal Zombie directed by acclaimed director Brian Yuzna), Flight of the Living Dead (2007), Peter Jackson's Braindead(1992 the best Zombie special-effects I have ever seen and it is a cult status film and considered to be Jackson's masterpiece), Re-Animator(1985. Stuart Gordon's cult status film based on master of horror H.P. Lovecraft), Bride Of The Re-animator(1989 directed by Brian Yuzna), Beyond Re-Animator (2003. The final closing chapter and I consider this film to be Yuzna's masterpiece). As an after thought I add the Brad Pitt movie World War Z(2013) and George Romero's Land Of The Dead(2005).

Many thanks for reading. May you lead a long and happy life.

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reallyevilboy from Melbourne
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We all went in knowing what was going to happen. You wouldn't be watching this if you hadn't watched the first episode and so you know where he put his pee pee.

Yeah it was okay. I always have problems with the self surgery but that's just me. Though I did love the scene where she popped out her eyeball instead of her contact lens... "What have you done to me!!" LOL

Yeah, kind of liked it. Kind of liked the way the whole thing progresses from a single instance to a full blown epidemic.

Loved the awkward memorial scene with the "Alice" song.

While I'm writing this review I'm realizing that I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought.

Wonder if this is going to have a Phase III?

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Poptart_Psycho from United Kingdom
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After reviewing the first Contracted thoroughly as I believed it was harshly crisicsed the Phase 2 disappointed me greatly...

I was expecting some of the unanswered questions to be answered like who was bj? what actually is the disease? but only vaguely mentioned At the first the movie picks up where we left off Samantha and the police stand off.

This time the movie is based around Riley, the guy from the first film who was infatuated by lesbian Samantha who he eventually slept with and contracted the sti.

We see how Riley is desperate to find a cure and find the mysterious Bj. In actual fact BJ has been stalking him. Riley lives at home with his gran and his heavily pregnant sister.

Riley has a new love interest in the for of Harper but little does she know of the truth Bj we come to realise has the cure but has his own agenda and wants to spread this zombie disease.

Throughout the film it shows that even just by kissing it can be spread.

The police led by Crystal Young try to control the outbreak but even the cops cannot control the vile disease Gore levels are risen, there is more emphasis on the zombie transformation, more detail on what the disease does. But unfortunately as the gore gets better the actual plot disintegrates into more of a fully pledged zombie meeting.

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view_and_review from California
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There are a few reasons I watched "Contracted Phase 2".

1.) How could it be worse than the first one? It wasn't

2.) Maybe there would be some answers for how and why all of this started. There were, somewhat.

3.) Will the people get more intelligent because the first movie was rife with stupidity. They were, slightly.

"Contracted Phase 2" picks up exactly where "Contracted" left off. Samantha was killed after hungrily attacking her mother on the street (how her mom happened to be at the scene of her accident is beyond me).

This movie was yet another warning about unprotected sex as it picks up with Riley (Matt Mercer) going to the hospital to be tested for "everything" after his sexual escapade with Samantha. We see Riley go through the same three day metamorphosis that Samantha went through except with more casualties.

The movie still lacked any real personality even though the acting was significantly better. But yet again, there were no characters to get behind. Riley deserved his fate for getting freaky with a walking corpse, everyone else was just collateral damage.

Although better than the first "Contracted Phase 2" still not a good movie.

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Flow from Romania
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I'll be the first to say it: did not expect anything from Phase 2, nothing better than the original, no improvement, I only saw a lot of gore heading my way.

On the gore part, I was right, this one being a lot more brutal than the original, but the plot, is really good. They actually followed the story, quite nicely too, linked some pieces together, showed a better and more complex plot that leads to a good ending. It is hard to watch at times, but this is what this kind of movies usually bring, so get your stomach ready cause you'll need to.

Overall, Contracted: Phase 2, was a lovely sequel, and now I can't wait to see what part three will be all about. I mean, I hope this will turn into a trilogy and I'm guessing next on the list is the breakout of the virus. Probably a lot more gore too!

Cheers!

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ericburch76 from United States
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I can sit through just about anything, and I've watched movies that most people would turn off within the first few minutes. Now, I did sit through this whole movie, it's kind of like a masochistic thing I do, how much can I take, ya' know? After watching the first Contracted, I was looking forward to seeing the second one. Waited for a long time for it to come out and was happy when it came out. Then I watched it. If was F*#^ing stupid. How did the full grown meelworms appear? And why were they meelworms and not maggots? SPOILER: Why did the virus take longer to kill the some people than it did others? SPOILER: Why did the cop just cry and whimper at the hospital at the end instead of handling sh*t the way a cop would? Why would the guy decide to not tell his doctor about the horrible infection on his back, and why lie about having sex with the girl in the first place? If you're going to lie to your doctor, don't go in the first place! Idiots. But even though he was an idiot, he still isn't as big an idiot as the writers of this movie. They have no idea about how anything works and should be blacklisted from Hollywood.

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Steve Pulaski from United States
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Eric England's Contracted came on horror radars almost as fast as an epidemic or a bout of syphilis. It was a nasty little horror film, buoyed by a terrific central performance by the young Najarra Townsend as a young woman victim to a terrible sexually transmitted disease that eventually turned her into a walking zombie. England held his focus on Townsend's poor soul throughout the film, so we could see a gradual and frightening transition from a normal woman into a blood-thirsty, inhuman beast. It was a terrific example of how the most affecting horror films don't often feature numerous jumpscares or big budgets to back up their ambition.

Now comes the inevitable Contracted: Phase II, fresh off a very low-key video-on-demand release (I had no idea of its release until a day before it was released) and a whirlwind of production issues, most of which publicized by England himself, who started as the film's writer and director and winds up without even a "special thanks" credit on the end product. Anyone vaguely familiar with the underground horror scene of late knows of the numerous problems this particular film faced, from several directorial and screen writing shakeups, and the same people will likely be disappointed to hear that the end result feels like an amalgamation of several different script ideas without a shred of cohesion and purpose.

Contracted was a very methodical horror film; conservatively paced, but always interesting from a situational standpoint, England always found a way to connect you with the character at hand and knew how to make the audience wince at the grotesque moments on-screen. Contracted: Phase II feels perfunctory where the original film felt natural; it feels like the byproduct of studio greed and manipulation over a product that succeeded primarily for the love of the genre.

The film concerns Riley (Matt Mercer), who is left to search for a cure to the virus that took over his friend Samantha (Townsend) and several of her friends. Riley winds up developing the same sort of ugly afflictions on his back and arms that Samantha did in the early stages of her STD, and races against the clock with a woman named Harper (Anna Lore) as the two try to combat the virus and find its source before the world is at the mercy of blood-thirsty zombies.

Lost in translation is the realism factor that made the original Contracted such a thrill; it genuinely seemed like a simple instance of a woman partaking in a one-night-stand only to have the repercussions affect her for the rest of her life. This film enhances things on a larger, more corporate scale, citing sources for all the ugliness and increasing the stakes which, for horror films in particular, is ripe for implausibility and complete exaggeration of something that once worked so well because it was so simple.

Contracted: Phase II also woefully lacks cohesion, for the first fifteen minutes of the film involve an interrogation of Riley over the death of Samantha and Alice before scenes take over, in a very vignette-style structure, showing the growth of Riley's ugly illness as well as him dealing with the illness of others. The result is a film that becomes a repetitive and dreary slog all too quickly, losing its intimate focus and feeling like a narrative hodgepodge with no clear-cut vision whatsoever.

This is a real shame, with Contracted being such a rare film; a film made with little money that seemed doomed to fail after potential financial backers turned the other cheek when it was shown a variety of festivals. After a big hit in Sweden, Contracted was acquired by IFC Films, famous for their IFC Midnight brand of schlocky horror films, and the rest resulted in minor independent film history as a horror film that rebounded to become something of a sleeper hit almost overnight. Contracted: Phase II is a pitiful excuse for a followup, ugly and forgettable, in addition to being completely void of purpose or a vision when it comes to building off of the truly strong, stable ground that was laid before it.

Starring: Matt Mercer and Anna Lore. Directed by: Justin Forbes.

The worms that form under Reilly's skin are actually superworms, a popular food for pet reptiles.
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Certifications:
Australia:MA15+ (2015) / Hong Kong:IIB / South Korea:18 / UK:18 / USA:Not Rated