One of the most infuriatingly frustrating films I've seen this year. The premise is genuinely creepy (and gross) but the actions of the entire cast are completely illogical and ridiculous.

If your vagina is gushing blood and maggots, your eyes are bleeding, your fingernails are falling off, and your hair is coming out in clumps you'd probably go to the hospital right? Apparently not if you're a self-centered twenty-something. In that case, you go to work, then try to win back your ex-girlfriend, then do some drugs, then try to enter your orchid into a botany contest.

Even after she goes to the doctor, he's just like "Well we don't know until we get the tests back," when he should…

Part of HOOPT🚨BER 7.0: “Stay Inside (the Salt Circle)!” challenge.
15/31
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One of the most recurring problems in horror movies, especially indie, is the excess of subplots and conflicts that take screen time off the most important element in the plot.

Here, the protagonist Samantha, in addition to dealing with what she thinks is a STD contracted after having sex with a stranger, also has to deal with her annoying girlfriend who doesn't know what she wants, her drug addiction, her job as a waitress, the terrible relationship with her mother, a stalker in love with her, a jealous friend and a flower contest (?) that she wants to win.

The bloody body horror is constantly in the background…

Samantha gets wasted at a party then ends up frolicking in the back-seat of a car with a dodgy guy and before you know it, her vagina is dead and the rest of her body is not far behind.

I liked the idea of showing a zombie transformation in the style of a body horror movie, but rather annoyingly, Contracted tells you exactly what's happening far too early, leaving very little to the imagination and it constantly struggles to create any suspense as a result.

Najarra Townsend as the soon-to-be-undead Samantha, is well cast and watchable, but the rest of the performances are a poor fit, particularly Samantha's estranged lover and her chirpy best friend who are cartoonish to the…

The concept was intriguing enough to override all of the negative reviews! While I don't care for the film, as a zombie aficionado I'm glad I had seen it!

I view this film as a missed opportunity! It had potential but quite possibly for budgetary reasons it was not a viable option! The idea of the zombie virus accelerating at a much slower pace and presenting initial symptoms that don't immediately identify the culprit was a refreshing idea!

They didn't exploit the true nature of their film! They didn't create a carrier that spreads this disease on a massive scale. Nor did they treat it like the threat (pandemic) that it was! Both of these elements could have turned this…

Eric England's "Contracted" has a delightful creepy streak running through it. As a horror film, that could be enough to make the film at least watchable. The story of a young woman who contracts a ferocious STD, the film observes as the disease causes eyeballs to cloud, hair to fall out, and maggots to infest. It is all satisfyingly icky.

Unfortunately, the film loses ground on other levels. The story is full of events and characters that cheapen the experience with clumsily executed relationships and dialogue. The protagonist has a cloudy past, but her friends, mother, and girlfriend muddle what could have been an interesting character.

Moreover, it is difficult not to take the film to task for its messy,…

Young lesbian is drugged and raped by a strange man who crashed her friend's party. She soon realizes she's been infected with something deadly, as her body starts to deteriorate.

78min small scale horror that takes the notion of unprotected sex to a whole other level. It opens at a morgue with the antagonist seemingly having some sort of sexual encounter with a corpse, thus, procuring the disease.

We follow Samantha over 3 days as the symptoms from that night manifests in the form of unnatural amounts of bleeding (resulting in lots of bloody toilet scenes), hyper sensitivity, rotting flesh, discolored eyes and vagina maggots.

Even as everyone around her can see she's falling apart and are aware that the…