#59 Day of the Dead 2: Contagium 2005

One blurb I read about this claims it is a prequel to the Romero movies. If it was there was no real direct connection that I could see. I guess they were just making an attempt at explaining the origin of the zombie epidemic. I prefer to have it unexplained. The unknown is usually scarier. Romero had nothing to do with this film and so it is not that good.

Mental patients happen upon a thermos which contains an unknown viral agent, most likely of extraterrestrial origin. Those exposed directly to it become undead zombie like creatures that retain their motor function and high CAC score (although they are mental patients so they still have some issues). They are also mentally linked and no what each other are thinking and feeling. The people that they bite turn into truer zombies.

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