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.

I'm not giving a summary because not quite sure how to lay out the plot. So straight to my opinion. Seems most reviewers here have pointed out my main gripes. The fact that not even her mother insists she see a doctor is a point I couldn't get past. She comes home after having a drink at the bar and wow, her mom is perceptive about that but can't see or smell her rotting away?? She even stands in the bathroom while her daughter is vomiting blood and asks if she's pregnant!! And I'm of the same opinion as others who pointed out the friends' non reactions, the inept doc, and the stalker who obviously has no sense of sight or smell as he gets it on with her. The goof section here has covered a couple of errors in logic I was going to point out so no need for that, either. So why am I even writing this? I suppose to air my frustrations but also, I just had to comment on the sunglasses. Can she fidget with them one more time because someone may have missed the first few hundred times! Lol. Ok so this isn't much of a review but since IMDb tossed my beloved message boards, I have no where else to go. Overall, it's not the worst thing I've seen. At least I was never bored. Incredulous but not bored. I will probably watch it again some night even if just to hate-watch. There were ways to fix these problems without having her confined to a hospital. She ran from everyone at least once anyway so why not because they were forcing her to get help? Oh and if your doc ever tells you to stay away from others for at least 24 hours, according to this film, that means you can go see everyone you know and even have maggot sex!! (Please don't go by the logic of this film) Positive points? I liked her transformation. Or rather, degeneration. Unlike the characters, I noticed it!

Contracted is an attempt at an edgy and original body horror film, but ends up looking like a C-level student film. I found myself laughing out loud during points in this film because of how little sense it made. Samantha is a young woman who is going through a rough patch with her girlfriend. (Although it is made clear in the film that Samantha is bisexual, she and the other characters regularly go around referring to her as a "lesbian." No idea there). She gets drunk at a friend's party and starts talking to an unknown man there, "BJ" (what a name), who is kept out of focus to make him appear more mysterious, which instead comes off very forced and obvious. He ends up drugging and raping her (despite the film's tagline of a "one night stand") and is never heard from again, nor is anyrhing more learned from him (save for one thing, more on that later). She wakes up the next morning at home with little recollection of what happened, but soon begins experiencing increasingly more disturbing symptoms, such as bloody discharge, headaches, and peeling/rotting skin, among other grotesqueries. While observing the dark and raised veins in her pubic region, one doctor makes the educated diagnosis of a "head cold and a rash." Somebody revoke his license. The main problem with this film is the script. despite a mildly interesting premise, the story suffers from atrocious dialogue and story points that go nowhere. The problems with Samantha and Nicole's relationship are only spoken of in vague terms and never explored. At a point in the film, BJ is being searched for by the police for, as Samantha'a friend puts it, "some child molester shit." Nothing else is spoken of him from then on. Samantha'a mother notices the deteriorating physical state of her daughter, and instead of immediately calling 911, angrily assumes Samantha is relapsing into a poorly explained drug habit. These plot elements don't have to be explained in detail, but the characters and their dynamics have to be compelling enough to make you want to know the answers. It is painfully obvious what is being intentionally unexplained, and the entirely unconvincing performances and horrible dialogue just add to the misery. The ending is so bizarre it's hard to explain. After separately murdering her girlfriend and friend by strangling them, with no physical struggle at all (is it that hard to roll over when you're being straddled by a decaying girl?) and infecting the boy that had been creepily crushing on her, she gets into a car wreck. Upon exiting the vehicle to the audience of police, bystanders, and her mother, she begins growing and flinging her arms at approaching pedestrians, before attacking her mother, where the screen cuts to black and the film abruptly and confusingly ends. I was genuinely laughing out loud during this whole sequence. To the credit of the cast, most of them are trying. With a better script, the actresses for Nicole and the mother could pull a convincing performance. The main actress, although entirely unconvincing in her delivery, is trying her best, and with some training and better direction, she could do better. The problem is that so little makes sense and the characters are so flat and unmemorable that there's no way to get into the illusion. Overall, bland, underwhelming, and shot through and through with confoundingly nonsensical plot points. Definitely good for a few laughs here and there though.

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.