What happens when a night you barely remember starts rewriting your body in real time? Eric England’s indie shocker "Contracted" is an uncomfortably prescient look at how women’s symptoms are dismissed, consent is questioned after the fact, and control over their own bodies can be challenged even by healthcare providers in the blink of an eye.

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"Contracted" follows Samantha (Najarra Townsend), a woman who wakes up after a party with symptoms that quickly escalate from inconvenient to alarming. She suspects she may have contracted an STD after being sexually assaulted, but it actually might be far worse. Meanwhile, everyone around her insists it’s just stre

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