Contracted

What a stupid lead character and wholly unsympathetic. I can't count the number of times throughout it I was going "WHY AREN'T YOU AT THE DOCTOR'S? YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS FUCKING WRONG." and then she goes to the doctor only to not explain what's actually going on, or seeks help after learning she was exposed to something terrible, and continues doing stupid thing and yeah it's a horror movie and this is a run on sentence but goddamn it YOUR BODY IS FALLING APART DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Bad Movie With a slow buildup that basically leads to nothing But the effects are "Grossly Cool"

I loved the concept, which is wonderfully grotesque, disturbing, and upsetting. There are some good body horror sequences. I just wish the film were good, lol; it's a disservice that the script is so poor.

The characters behave so inexplicably that I must view it as satire. The whole focus during this movie is how the main character looks, but nothing deeper than that, so in a way this film might be brilliant.

Superior version on the same theme as 'It Follows' -- the 'illegitimate' sexual act leading to a rottenness within. But the 'illegitimacy' here takes on a whole new meaning, with a splendid twist on relationships and break-ups, and this aspect of it raises it above the run-of-the-mill 'scary' late-night Saturday fodder.

Amusing.

A woman's drugged rape is interpreted by her ex- through biphobic jealousy, her subsequent disintegration interpreted by her mother through homophobic anti-drug-interventionism, and ignored/instrumentalised by a semi-stalker suitor until he worries he might have sexually-contracted something from her and becomes aggressive and judgey. The woman, ever-more isolated and unable to shift such frames, enacts her flailing frustration. Cops intervene, badly. Sequel concerns infected semi-stalker guy.

What should have been the greatest, most memorable scene at the end, would have been too short and unsatisfying even for a movie trailer, let alone the big finish. Too bad, because it was promising, for the most part. Lacks a lot of explanation and leaves a few important details for the imagination, which only works if you're doing a cerebral film, and this isn't cerebral.

Arg! There are many great things about this movie, but it fails due to poor story telling, pacing, climax, and plot.

The nauseating premise is one thing. It's another that everyone in this poor woman's life is an asshole somehow. The paranoia seems pointlessly angry, but if its goal is to be unnerving, it works.

The zombie was always a metaphor, yet in the past decade it's hobbled into the Hollywood "real" with all its gunslingers and idealized survivalist machismo. Contracted is a film that liberates the zombie from the clutches of Hollywood glamor and returns it to its original state--a metaphor, an ugly, horrifying metaphor. And whereas Romero's zombie critiqued capitalism, England's zombie turns its glazed eye to the social construction of "womanness" and gender. A masterful work of feminist art

There is something new and fine behind this. There really is.

Throughout the movie the protagonist tries to play off her illness as a mild sickness despite looking like a zombie extra from The Walking Dead.

For those looking for bloody rampaging zombies, this isn't the film for you. This a psychological horror. Takes you on a dark descent to a single woman's demise. Good film! Could've used a better ending but was a good film all and all. There aren't very many zombie movies out there that shows the origin of the virus quite like this film has.

A genuinely great and interesting idea for a film that's let down by a really weak script and poor acting.

Really lame final act

Interesting premise but mediocre execution. Sadly it was too long at 85 minutes...

A great premise is, unfortunately, let down by some pretty subpar performances. Very effective body-horror, however, which made me want to shower immediately.

Piss poor performances perpetrated primarily by cast of this underwritten tosh that had a great idea but terrible execution by a writer-director who needed an editor to hack this down to short-film length. Why on earth was the main character a lesbian

Cool idea, but the writing felt more and more contrived as her disease got worse. I guess the main character has an excuse for her poor decisions, but what about everyone else? Do they all suffer from some degree of selective blindness?

I thought Najarra Townsend was the clear bright spot in this one