Gwyneth Paltrow plays Beth Emhoff, one of the first people to get infected with the MEV-1 virus in “Contagion.” Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne and Jude Law also star in the 2011 thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Immunity helps humanity
Will Smith plays Robert Neville, a U.S. Army virologist who is the supposed last man on in New York. Based on the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson, “I Am Legend” was the seventh-highest grossing film of 2007.
Fear and gore make ‘Flu’ worth watching
Set in present time, the South Korean movie shows how quick and easily infection can spread.
Survival horror meets “Alice in Wonderland”
Alice, played by Milla Jovovich, is paired up with a group of commandos who must destroy the spread of the T-Virus, a man-made experimental plague that brings the dead back to life.
While others head to the beach, head to the movies
Elisabeth Moss stars in “The Invisible Man,” a reboot of the ’30s film series.