Day of the Dead 2: Contagium2005

Name: Day of the Dead 2: Contagium
Genre: Zombie, Sci-Fi Horror, Survival
Released: 2005-08-10
Rating: 2.8

“Everyday has a beginning.”

Directed by Ana Clavell, James Glenn Dudelson

2.8

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Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 2.3TMDB 3.0

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Year

2005

Runtime

103 min

Box Office

Budget

$9,000,000

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

Decades after a catastrophic military bioweapons experiment is buried along with its victims, a dormant threat resurfaces when a group of psychiatric patients stumbles upon a forgotten relic from that dark chapter of history. What begins as a mundane discovery inside a crumbling institution quickly spirals into a desperate fight for survival as a DNA-altering contagion begins to spread through the vulnerable population. This unofficial prequel to Romero's classic explores the origins of a zombie outbreak through dual timelines — one set in the Cold War-era military, the other in a present-day mental health facility. Fans of lo-fi zombie horror will find a modestly ambitious premise straining against its independent production roots.

Content: Zombie Violence, Gore, Depictions Of Mental Illness, Military Violence