Najarra townsend contracted phase 2

by Patrick Bromley
They should have worn a condom.

This review contains spoilers for the original Contracted.

Regular visitors to this site know that I'm a big fan of Eric England's horror film Contracted, which follows the deterioration of a young woman (Najarra Townsend) as she slowly rots away after a random sexual encounter.

It's a cool little movie with a lot on its mind, part Cronenbergian body horror, part pitch black comedy, part metaphor not only for sexually transmitted diseases but also for a young woman in crisis who cannot get the help she needs because those around her refuse to see the problem for what it is.

While it eventually reveals itself to be an origin story for a zombie movie, that ends up just being a neat little twist in what has already proven itself a really small, interesting horror movie with a bunch of ideas in it about the current generation of people in their early 20s.

The original film was a big enough hit that IFC Midnight wanted a sequ