Contagion of Fear

2023

Thriller

2
IMDb Rating 3.6/10 10 309 309

gas attack

Plot summary

A catastrophic train derailment sends the city spiraling into chaos. But the derailment is just the beginning. A biological gas attack sees crash survivors collapsing and dying within minutes. And the sickness is rapidly spreading.

Director

Enzo Tedeschi Photo
Enzo Tedeschi

Top cast

Raelee Hill Photo
Raelee Hill as Bree
Zoe Carides Photo
Zoe Carides as Pamela Laird
Paul Michael Ayre Photo
Paul Michael Ayre as Owen Stokes
Melissa Brattoni Photo
Melissa Brattoni as News reporter
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898.9 MB
1280*536
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 8
1.63 GB
1920*804
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Aylmer 3 / 10

Mediocre virus horror movie jumps shark to become an even more mediocre lecture on religious tolerance

What starts out as a typical virus/paranoia film along the lines of OUTBREAK or CONTAGION suddenly drops everything about 20 minutes in to become a preachy politically-correct thriller about the dangers of blaming everything on a minority group. In this case it's Muslims trying to keep their head above water, while a lot of angry backwoods Australians (led by a skinhead internet influencer who reminds me of the late Tom Towles) chase them down with violent intentions. There's a subplot of a single dad who has to sneak his daughter out of the quarantine zone and becomes something of a viral star due to angrily ranting about losing his wife to the disease. The yokels hold him up as a sort of spokesman but he then seems to have second thoughts.This film encompasses so many things I have come to loathe about the modern era of filmmaking: an over-the-top politically charged moral grandstanding, ridiculous nuance-free villains, flashy editing attempting to paper over story and budget deficiencies, and characters who make a series of dumb decisions for no reason other than to push the plot along. The main character, a Muslim detective who has to rescue her father from the quarantine zone, has the ability to move in and out of the quarantine zone easily despite not seeming to take any precautions and her superiors supposedly limiting her powers and then even going after her themselves. She seems to have magical superhuman powers to know how to evade authorities and find clues to who is and isn't on her side based on the flimsiest of pretexts.It's all the more aggravating as the opening 5 minutes of the film seemed like the makings of a quality virus movie. It's too bad that it kinda forgot about the virus to blatantly focus on a less interesting narrative over minority justice and Islamophobia while presenting no solutions at all to the societal problems depicted. However, I do contend that's essentially what the events it likely got its inspiration from in 2020 did as well.
Reviewed by preislotto 1 / 10

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