Favorite Plague/Virus/Epidemic Movie

Quarantine

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I like [italic]Contagion[/italic], but [italic]the Andromeda Strain[/italic] is worth a mention. The freaky eyes on Anthony Zerbe and his pack creeped me out when I was a kid. It was one of I-don't-know-how-many adaptations of [italic]My Names Is Legend[/italic].

Aaaack! Failure to edit. I meant [italic]the Omega Man[/italic]. ^^^

The Stand

World War Z. Good film plus I’M in it - among zombie crowd in opening scene.

"The Andromeda Strain" is a guilty pleasure, as is "The Cassandra Crossing." "Outbreak" with Dustin Hoffman is certainly worth viewing.

Where's "28 Days Later" OP?

Death in Venice

Aaron Stanford was really cute & fuckable in the 12 MONKEYS reboot series Sci-Fi did.

Day of the Dead.

George Romero's The Crazies

The Day Of The Triffids (1962)

"A virus knows no morals" - a German film i saw at the LA gay film festival during the 1980s.

definitely The Stand

DO IT HAROLD! DO IT!

Tie between Contagion for realism and Seventh Seal for allegory.

Although not technically a plague movie, Herzog's 'Nosferatu' is full of wonderfully evocative images of a plague-stricken medieval town.

I’m not a Christian or a Jew and I think most animated musical are laughable, but even I get a bit spooked watching ‘The Plagues’ sequence from THE PRINCE OF EGYPT. At least it proves any Abrahamic God would have to be a maniacal genocidal tyrant to ever exist with true omnipotence.

I can rarely make it to the part where a silent shadow of fatal airborne sickness descends on Egypt and all the civilians (including little kids) just drop dead in their nightly activities. It’s horrifying.

Another vote for the cataclysmic plague averted in The Andromeda Strain.

It’s slow and clinical, but quite absorbing as scientists race to figure out why the town drunk and an infant are the only survivors in a stricken small town.

Sean of the Dead

Longtime Companion

"The Andromeda Strain"

Other: a great Serbian film called VARIOLA VERA, based on the 1972 smallpox outbreak in Yugoslavia (which was the last time that disease made an appearance in Europe). A muslim pilgrim brings smallpox back from the Hajj (which was how it happened in real life too) and when the authorities realize what they're dealing with they put the entire hospital where he was treated under quarantine and seal it off from the rest of the world.

It's like General Hospital meets [REC]. Young Rade Serbedzija shows his ass in one scene.

The Host by the guy who made Parasite.

Contagion, because Gwyneth Paltrow is the first victim and we get to see her severed head in a plastic bag.

Outbreak is available on Netflix. If you want to see some scenery chewing along with your plague story, this is the film for you.