Movie Review - Day of the Dead 2 Contagium

So sitting with my trusty DVR and my favorite movie channel Chiller - I find Day of the Dead 2 - Contagium and think "Hey I loved Day of the Dead, I'll check this out."  Our story starts out with a flashback to a hospital with a zombie outbreak going on, for some reason one of the people bitten by a zombie takes the zombie juice/air thing (looks like a Christmas ornament) and hides it in his thermos and tries to make a run for it.  Meanwhile, army dudes come in and kill everyone and then napalm the place.  Running guy with no motive makes it to the forest and then is shot dead.  Maybe there was more to the plot here than I am giving it credit for and I just missed it but I don't think so.

Movie then moves on with no real reference or connection with Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead or Return of the Living Dead by jumping to the present to an insane asylum that now sits near the previous hospital's location.  Here they take the loonies out to clean up the nearby country side and one finds the dreaded thermos.  Of course it gets accidentally opened and the strange zombie air Christmas ornament thing infects like five of them ( I think - again by this time the true caliber of the movie had been revealed and my attention was wavering yet I hung on just to see how this would end).  They all get sick and seem like they are dead (slightly similar to Return of the Living Dead) and begin to crave blood.  But they are somehow also all connected mentally and physically and when they bite someone that person turns into a zombie but also a strange meatball open muscle/growth type of thing.

For some reason zombie air has made the one woman in the group pregnant with quick growing thing even though she has not been getting naughty - also this minor plot goes no where - she never gives birth to monster zombie thing and it is really stupid.  Insane asylum zombies sound like they would be fun but here they are not.  While bad movies can be fun, this one is really not and I feel like I have lost a few hours of my life to this poor rip-off of the zombie genre.

Unless you are a die hard "must-see-all-zombie-related-stuff" type of person, avoid this one.

Rating - one out of five stars