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Day of the Dead 2: Contagium
Anchor Bay DVD Cover
Directed by	Ana Clavell James Glenn Dudelson
Produced by	Robert Franklin Dudelson James Glenn Dudelson
Written by	Ana Clavell
Starring	Laurie Baranyay Steve Colosi John Freedom Henry
Music by	Chris Anderson
Cinematography	James M. LeGoy
Editing by	Ana Clavell
Distributed by	Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release date(s)	18 October 2005
Running time	103 min.
Language	English
Budget	$9,000,000
Preceded by	Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead 2: Contagium is a low-budget quasi-prequel to the George A. Romero film Day of the Dead. Although it is, by definition, an official sequel as Taurus Entertainment Company holds the rights to the original film, no one from the original film had any involvement in Contagium.

Plot

In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal biological weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers are 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 into the grass.

In the present day, 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.

Cast

Reception

The film has received dominantly negative reviews. One factor stems from the title, as the plot of the film and its depiction of zombies are at odds with those in both the original Day of the Dead and Romero's Dead series as a whole. Heavy criticism have also been aimed at the film's acting, special effects, and script.

External links

• Day of the Dead 2: Contagium at the Internet Movie Database
• Day of the Dead 2: Contagium at Allmovie
• Day of the Dead 2: Contagium at Rotten Tomatoes