Contracted

Contracted (2013)

Not your average one night stand.

A young woman contracts what she believes to be an STD—but it ends up being a far worse disease.

Date of release
2013-07-07
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (566)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Director
Eric England
Collection
Contracted Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

Contracted is a 2013 American zombie-body horror independent film written and directed by Eric England. It was first released on November 22, 2013, in the United States and stars Najarra Townsend as a young woman that finds herself suffering from a mysterious sexually transmitted disease after a rape. It has been compared to the 2012 film Thanatomorphose, with which it shares similarities. Twitch Film has criticized the movie for its marketing, in which England describes the character Samantha's rape as a "one night stand". Some of the cast from the first film reprise their roles in the 2015 sequel, Contracted: Phase II, written by Craig Walendziak and directed by Josh Forbes.

Production

England said that he began working on Contracted due to his wanting to "tell a story within the virus/infection subgenre like we've never seen before" and that he wanted to use sex as a plot device as it was something that "most people can understand and relate to". He wrote the film's script in March 2012 and shot Contracted during a 15-day period in Los Angeles in May of the same year, A plot has an inspiration for George A.

England had initially planned to have the film center around the film's protagonist experiencing the loss of her virginity, but changed it to focus on a character that is uncertain of her sexuality and has a prior lifestyle different than the one she currently has.

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