Contracted
A young girl has a one-night stand with a random stranger and contracts, what she thinks is, a sexually-transmitted disease - but is actually something much worse.
14 March 1971, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
23 May 1985, Iwakuni, Japan
1975, California, USA
17 March 1980, Newport News, Virginia, USA
27 March 1957, Rusk, Texas, USA
November 28, 2013
None of it feels remotely believable but also isn't broadly defined enough to be satire, falling in that dull gap in the middle.November 27, 2013
Contracted goes all-out on the gross-out.November 20, 2013
It's hard to make out what, if anything, writer-director Eric England is trying to say about the fragility of the flesh with Contracted, which amounts to little more than a slow-motion replay of The Fly's central gross-out.December 10, 2013
Our inability to identify with [Townshend] means we can't identify with the film's central horror, and thus "Contracted" isn't all that unsettling.November 18, 2013
A body-horror opus that will satisfy genre fans who like to be grossed out, but doesn't have much to offer on any other count.February 04, 2014
Contracted is an efficiently icky, gross-out exercise in body horror that should please fans of this kind of thing. Still, the lack of any substance below the surface is ultimately too frustrating to ignore.January 08, 2016
A thoughtful and wonderfully cringe-inducing body horror story, Contracted is an often frightening and nasty exploration of isolation and desperation that grabs hold from the start and doesn't let up until the film's bitter conclusion.November 21, 2013
"Contracted" can best be described as "Contagion" meets "Blue Is the Warmest Color," without all those explicit sex scenes.December 05, 2013
By being the director/writer and co-producer, England the writer didn't have an independent director to say, "Hey, the ending needs to be stronger!" or "What's the movie saying about lesbians having sex with men?"November 19, 2013
There's no payoff to the paranoia.April 04, 2014
A very adult and straight faced glimpse at an ugly human being rotting from the inside out...November 21, 2013
The ending to this fable misses the opportunity for broader metaphorical resonance, but getting there has its own unnerving rewards.