AKA: Wash your hands. Don't touch your face.
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84%
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6.6
- Release Date: Sep 08, 2011
- Rated: PG-13 | Runtime: 106 Mins | Language: English
- Director: Steven Soderbergh
- Stars: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Bryan Cranston
Summary
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
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Contagion (2011) Trailer Real Doctor Reacts To CONTAGION (2011) - Did It Predict Coronavirus? Contagion - Movie Review
What to Expect
I'm writing this during the epic Coronavirus pandemic of 2020. No joke.
This movie was originally based off the SARS outbreak (and is a surprisingly accurate representation of it, aside from the Hollywood spin). The details of how the virus started and how it spread are nearly identical to the current COVID-19 Coronavirus. There's nothing scarier than a horror movie that could happen, and actually IS happening, in real life. The movie itself is fantastic, great cast, great story and endless tragedy. Think of it like Outbreak, but on a global scale with a fatality rate of 20% and a time to death of maybe a day (the Contagion virus that is). Outbreak was one of my favorite movies back when it released in '95 and Contagion has been my favorite movie about viral outbreaks since. Way scarier than any Zombie virus flick.
Side note about zombie virus flicks: Why don't they ever talk about mosquitoes? Those little bastards would zombify the world in about 4 hours.
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