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Day of the Dead 2: Contagium

Day of the Dead 2: Contagium

Everyday has a beginning.

20053.01h 43m

Overview

In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is 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 in the grass. In the present days, 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 and their Dr. Donwynn.

Directed by James Glenn Dudelson
Written by Ryan Carrassi
Box OfficeBudget: $9.0M0

Top Cast

L

Laurie Baranyay

Emma

S

Stan Klimecko

Boris

J

John Freedom Henry

Jackie

J

Justin Ipock

Isaac

J

Julian Thomas

Sam

S

Stephan Wolfert

Donwynn

J

Joe C. Marino

Marshall

A

Andreas van Ray

Dr. Heller

B

Brandon Ellison

Ball

Gia Franzia

Gia Franzia

Nurse

Themes & Keywords

prequelzombievirus

About Day of the Dead 2: Contagium

Day of the Dead 2: Contagium is a horror film released in 2005 exploring themes of prequel, zombie, virus. Directed by James Glenn Dudelson, it stars Laurie Baranyay, Stan Klimecko, John Freedom Henry. In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is 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 in the grass. In the present days, 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 and their Dr. Donwynn.

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