Viral

Viral

Credits
Title:	Viral
Director:	Henry Joost; Ariel Schulman
Writers:	Barbara Marshall; Christopher Landon
Producers:	Bob Weinstein; Harvey Weinstein; Jason Blum; Jeanette Brill; Todd King; Stuart Ford; Steven Squillante; Matt Jackson; Matthew Kaplan; Sherryl Clark; Robyn Marshall; James Moran
Composer:	Rob Simonsen
Cinematography:	Magdalena Górka
Editors:	Ron Dulin; William Yeh
Production
Production company:	Blumhouse Productions IM Global Chapter One Films Busted Shark Productions
Distributed by:	Dimension Films
Released:	July 29th, 2016
Rating:	R
Running time:	85 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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Viral is an American feature film that blends elements of science fiction, horror and the thriller genres, with an emphasis on the post-apocalyptic reality storytelling trope. It was directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman with a screenplay written by Barbara Marshall and Christopher Landon. It was produced by Blumhouse Productions, Busted Shark Productions, Chapter One Films, and IM Global, and distributed through Dimension Films. It was released on video-on-demand and on streaming services in the United States on July 29th, 2016.

Plot[]

Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family’s new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.

Cast[]

Actor	Role
Sofia Black-D'Elia	Emma Drakeford
Analeigh Tipton	Stacey Drakeford
Travis Tope	Evan Klein
Michael Kelly	Michael Drakeford
Colson Baker	CJ
John Cothran	Mister Toomey
Stoney Westmoreland	Bill
Linzie Gray	Gracie Lemay
Judyann Elder	Mrs. Toomey
Philip Labes	Gangly kid
Brianne Howey	Tara Dannelly
Alexa Fischer	CDC investigator
Brendon Eggertsen	Party jock
Jennifer Say Gan	CDC agent
Matt Knudsen	CDC agent
Dean Neistat	Blockade soldier
Paul Trunz	Coughing man
Annie Ellis	Nest hacker #1
Paul Lacovara	Soldier
Jay Hieron	Nest hacker #2
Brit Kyle	Hailey
Lucy Morningstar	Student
Isabelle Sitterle	Infected human

Notes & Trivia[]

The tagline for this film is "Fear What's Inside".
There are a total of twenty-three credited cast members in this film.
Viral was released on home video in Region 1 DVD format on August 2nd, 2016. ^[1]
On the Internet Movie Database, Viral has a Starmeter rating of 5.5 out of 10 based on 2,687 user votes in the United States, yielding an unweighted mean of 5.9. 28.0% of users gave the film a rating of a 6, which accounts for 753 members of the voting pool. 181 people gave the film a perfect score of 10, which makes up 6.7% of the total voting pool, which 77 people gave the movie a rating of 1, comprising 2.9% of the total voting pool.
On the movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Viral has a Tomatometer score of 56% based on 16 posted critic reviews. It has 9 positive reviews and 7 negative reviews. The movie has an audience score of 29% based on more than 500 verified user ratings, averaging 2.5 out of 5.
On Letterboxd, Viral has a weighted average ratings score of 2.47 out of 5 based on 6,201 user votes.
Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman are also known for directing Paranormal Activity 3 in 2011, and Paranormal Activity 4 in 2012.
Screenwriter Barbara Marshall is also known for writing Wish Upon in 2017.
Screenwriter Christopher Landon is also known for directing Happy Death Day and Freaky, as well as writing several installments in the Paranormal Activity film series.
Miramax, owner of Dimension Films, originally held the rights to produce Viral. However, on March 2nd, 2016, Filmyard Holdings sold Miramax to the beIN Media Group, and they were no longer associated with production of the film. This includes Miramax's top executives, Bob & Harvey Weinstein.
Actor Lio Tipton, who plays Stacey Drakeford, is credited as Analeigh Tipton in this film. Analeigh came out as non-binary and changed their name to Lio following the release of this film.
Actress Britt Kyle, who plays Hailey, is credited as Brit Kyle in this film.
Viral was released just two days after directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's previous film, Nerve.
Lio Tipton also played a character named Nora in another post-apocalyptic feature, Warm Bodies in 2013. They then went on to play Caroline in Lucy in 2014. Prior to all of these, they played Ana Lee in the 2011 feature film version of The Green Hornet.

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References[]

↑ IMDB; Viral (2016); Release Date.

Keywords[]

[1] IMDB; Viral (2016); Release Date.

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