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March 9th, 2009 
Bub 
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 advertised as 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.
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.
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Are you kidding!!? 3 Stars!? Are you just giving it more than 1 star for shock value? Have you even seen this film? You should be ashamed of yourself!!!! Stop blogging. I’m afraid to look up your ratings for, actual, good zombie movies. Did you give 28 weeks later 5 stars?
I bet you did
That’s a bit harsh.
would like some constructive criticism about this movie, though. is it any good?
It’s really not that harsh…this is possibly the worst film I have ever watched….I wanted it to be good but the plot was really slow to develop and the actors were terrible!
Oh yeah, this is the worst shitfest EVER. horrible acting, no story to speak of.
Insulting to zombie fans everywhere.
a think a will give this 1, a wide berth
yeah!!!
I must say this movie did no justice to the Zombie film industry it was not a film that I would recommend anyone to watch if you are a zombie movie fan.
Bub you summed it up in a nut shell.
wankathon,thats what i had when this film was on,cos it was bollocks!
THIS WAS THE WORST ZOMBIE MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN! i love zombie movies, but dumbass ones like this just makes me want to hit babies!
I havnt seen it but I wonder was it worse than house of the Dead,Day of the dead the remake,or any of a long string of other wannabes.
I have to say that I belonged to a forum where the guys that thought this.. “movie”… up posted regularly. On our forum, I believe it was zombie nation forum, they gave us updates on what they were doing, their ideas what they wanted with the film.. Let me tell you guys that we the general public HATED their ideas from day one! They were getting bad Criticism before they were even really doing anything! You know what they did in turn? Instead of changing their ideas into something good, which is what ZOMBIE FANS from a ZOMBIE FAN SITE were telling them to do, they just started arguing back with us with things like “you people don’t know movies, you people don’t know what you’re talking about” In essence we got a big “F.U we’re going to do it anyway.” and they left the forum never to post again and only to take a big crap into a camcorder and release it as a zombie flick. Now i’ve seen the remake of day of the dead and it was terrible, i’ve seen house of the dead and it was terrible, i’ve seen Children of the Living Dead which truly has to be THE worst zombie flick of all time *the directer even wrote a letter of apology to the public! seriously! you can see it on George Romero’s Website if its still up* But I will NEVER see this film. The people involved in breathing life into this thing were total idiots and douches.
Yeah, this movie sucks. Its movies like this one that make zombie films seem like a joke. @Donovan- What’s wrong with 28 days later? Granted, if you’re hard-core Romero, its not the same, and some could argue they’re not even zombies at all, but think about this- Before Romero zombies were mind controlled laborers, and Romero made them awesome killers. 28 days later reworked the zombie concept with a believable explanation of zombies and where they came from. It was very accurate with the depictions of how people would behave in a zombie apocalypse setting, and was a great film.