Directed by: Josh Forbes
Written by: Craig Walendzia
Starring: Matt Mercer, Marianna Palka, and Morgan Peter Brown
We start off with a flashback to the very end of the previous movie, which then leads us to an autopsy scene that progresses as the credits roll. Then we see “Day 4” appear on the screen. We’re obviously continuing on with the same story.
Riley, Samantha’s almost-boyfriend, is getting checked out at his doctor’s office. He’s got scratch marks on his back with one of her fingernails still embedded in them. We get a flashback where Alice, the girl Samantha killed in the first movie, gets up and attacks him. This film takes the “sickness” story from the first film and now completely zombifies things.
Riley gets called into the police station and is questioned about the four dead bodies, since he knew them all. Later, the doctor tells him that Samantha had “some kind of necrotic STD,” and it’s a good thing Riley didn’t have sex with her (but we all know he did). He very quickly starts showing the same symptoms, and so do other people.
Riley’s story is interwoven with the detective who is searching for BJ, the guy who started all this. BJ apparently knew exactly What he was doing. Other people all over the city are getting sick.
There was no indication from the first movie that BJ was anything other than a rapist, now he’s a major terrorist. The disease itself went from a super-STD to the start of a zombie apocalypse. We watched part two right after part one, and the medical-grade gore effects weren’t particularly impressive after the first one.
And one piece of advice: Never eat the blood-covered cheese dip.