Director Eric England's new flick "Contracted" yields effective scares and quite a good spoonful amount of new goodies to the horror subgenre. As you have seen by the movie's poster, the protagonist is indeed a female who looks terrible like the undead grabbing our attention, but the story focuses on a different plot.
Samantha (Najarra Townsend) gets invited to a party despite being in the midst of a conflicting lesbian relationship and identity crisis. A party-crasher introducing as B.J (Simon Barrett) is very convincing whereas Samantha becomes date-raped by the stalker. Later on, she feels something really bad and gets very sick being infected by some sort of STD as examined by the doctor. B.J. is obviously the culprit, though the movie ensues ambiguity to his true motive in the plot aside from being a full-time maniac.
By the time the movie arrives during the stages of Samantha's nasty transformation, we naturally couldn't help but to resist the relentless gore and repugnance despite being laughably red. The make-up and effects team gloriously made Townsend's character looks atrocious and terrifying. Two of my favorite points of the effects are Samantha's rotting phase and the contagion which crosses Eli Roth's Cabin Fever and Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral which is way better.
I could care less about the party scene though, for it looks tiresome to start the movie to as we have seen it countless times before. Writer- director Eric England could have made something more bona fide to begin with the characters. On top of that, some of his dialogues between Samantha and the other kids seems hackneyed and too stagey. However, the narrative offers a clever opening sequence for the plot and ends it with an alarmingly horrifying finale.
Contracted is a good icky, bloody, and insane indie horror film. It may not be the best of the bloodiest, but the movie is well-acted by new talents and delivers seriously f***ed up scenes, mystery, and dark humor you could possibly desire and a little more. With this, as anyone may have observed already, it may persuade you to wear a rubber again.
Samantha (Najarra Townsend) gets invited to a party despite being in the midst of a conflicting lesbian relationship and identity crisis. A party-crasher introducing as B.J (Simon Barrett) is very convincing whereas Samantha becomes date-raped by the stalker. Later on, she feels something really bad and gets very sick being infected by some sort of STD as examined by the doctor. B.J. is obviously the culprit, though the movie ensues ambiguity to his true motive in the plot aside from being a full-time maniac.
By the time the movie arrives during the stages of Samantha's nasty transformation, we naturally couldn't help but to resist the relentless gore and repugnance despite being laughably red. The make-up and effects team gloriously made Townsend's character looks atrocious and terrifying. Two of my favorite points of the effects are Samantha's rotting phase and the contagion which crosses Eli Roth's Cabin Fever and Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral which is way better.
I could care less about the party scene though, for it looks tiresome to start the movie to as we have seen it countless times before. Writer- director Eric England could have made something more bona fide to begin with the characters. On top of that, some of his dialogues between Samantha and the other kids seems hackneyed and too stagey. However, the narrative offers a clever opening sequence for the plot and ends it with an alarmingly horrifying finale.
Contracted is a good icky, bloody, and insane indie horror film. It may not be the best of the bloodiest, but the movie is well-acted by new talents and delivers seriously f***ed up scenes, mystery, and dark humor you could possibly desire and a little more. With this, as anyone may have observed already, it may persuade you to wear a rubber again.