TMKluski This movie is really great. This lovable girl gets involved in some very serrious mess. Against her will, against her worldview, she is seriously abused. Then she is forced to inflict her suffering upon others. On the loved ones, mostly. She is spreading the sickness like crazy but who can tell is it still her will or the disease? You should tell it yourself.

milena-trajcevska10 No plot,no story,no ending,nothing explained...this movie was awful.What happened to Samanta?How did she turn into zombie at the end or whatever that was?What disease did she have?Why did she kill her friends?What happened to the guy that gave her this disease? Also this girl had the worst mother ever. Poor acting,didn't't like the make up,so unreal... The trailer gives a false hope,even the movie itself.At the beginning i was interested but after that i found out what a horrible movie this is.Don't bother watching it.

Nigel P Samantha (Najarra Townsend) is a somewhat prickly, somewhat supercilious, usually unimpressed party girl who only has eyes (and smiles) for assured posh girlfriend Nikki (Katie Stegeman) – who is even less pleasant that she is! After being stood up at a party, Samantha has unprotected sex with BJ (Simon Barrett) – who may or may not have spiked her drink - only deciding against the idea once he is on top of her in the back of his car, the windows having had time to heavily steam up.Seemingly as a result of this, Samantha begins to suffer a series of increasingly harrowing afflictions – heavy loss of blood, tinnitus, disorientation, cramps, heightened veins, hair-loss etc. Despite Samantha's lofty characteristics, Townsend plays her very well and it is impossible not to empathise with her when her illness spirals out of control. What helps our empathy is the furthering reveal of Nikki's character as utterly self-absorbed, and try as she might, Samantha will never figure in her life because she (Nikki) is always entirely preoccupied with herself and her sexuality.To discuss the character of BJ– 'Contracted' opens with a scene of him having sex with a corpse in the mortuary where he works. It's actually quite difficult to work out what is happening, which is a shame as the whole reason for Samantha's decline is based on this detail. It is interesting that, for all his notoriety, we never clearly see his face (in the sequel, he is even played by a different actor).Another slight issue I have is that the unfortunate girl's physical decline is not always entirely consistent- sometimes her teeth are blackened, sometimes not; her eyes deteriorate into whiteness only to improve before deteriorating in the next scene. This isn't a major problem by any means; it just means her transition from living to 'other' isn't always a smooth one! As a diary of what happens when pretty people are not so pretty anymore, this is interested and wince-inducingly watchable. It reminds me of 2012's 'Thanatomorphose', which also features a young woman becoming increasingly decomposed and attempting to handle the situation alone. Here, the attitude of Samantha's unsympathetic doctor (who judgementally suspects an STD) and mother appears to explain her reticence to seek further outside help.Written and directed by Eric England, the first sequel ('Phase II') was released in 2015, and a further instalment is due for late 2017. I thoroughly enjoyed this, not ever knowing where the story was headed – instead, just 'enjoying' Samantha's turmoil. Whether any explanations as to the nature of the malady will be revealed doesn't really matter as long as the story is this horrifying and enjoyable.

prolozra First of all, duh. There may be a spoiler. This movie started slowish but turned more interesting once the lead actress started exhibiting nasty symptoms of an unknown disease. What blew it for me though was everyone, including said actress, totally ignoring how horrible she looked. I'd be in the ER immediately after the first issue, at least by the second. I don't understand why they didn't write it so she was admitted somewhere, hospital, CDC? Seems obvious to me and much more believable. Maybe in hospital she could've escaped her room and had sex with an unconscious patient, or a male nurse to have spread the disease for the next movie. It could have shown them stumped by the virus and trying to figure it out. I would've ended it with the hospital catching on fire by accident so all the infected were killed. Except for the person she had sex with in hospital, they could've left before the fire. Honestly anything would have been better than everyone pretending she wasn't horrificly sick. It ruined it. Main actress was not too bad. I thought the mothers acting was pretty unbelievable, but the script probably didn't help that. My mum would have dragged me to the hospital, or called an ambulance. I rated a 4 because I like gory stuff and the effects were pretty good. I enjoyed the concept of the movie, just hated most of the script. I didn't detest it. I just hated how idiotic they made people to her disease. With a bigger budget and better script the movie could've been amazing. Sadly we'll never know.