Contracted: Phase II (2015) poster
2015 · horror · thriller

Contracted: Phase II

Directed by Josh Forbes1h 18m2015
ElsewhereIMDb5.05kRT42%Metacritic35
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Picking up directly where the previous film left off, the story follows Riley, one of the last people to come in contact with Samantha, as he scrambles to track down those responsible for the outbreak before the highly contagious disease not only consumes his body, but the world as we know it.

Our read · Contracted: Phase II (2015) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want gory body horror about a man racing to stop a contagious virus outbreak.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 8attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upbody horrorgoregraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if graphic body horror, gore, or infection panic will gross you or stress you out.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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