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* CatapultNightmare: Emma has dreams Stacey's still infected, with worm parasites sprouting from every orifice in her face, then comes awake by sitting bolt upright while she gasps.
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* EmergencyAuthority: It's announced that to handle the worm flu crisis, US President UsefulNotes/BarackObama has declared martial law, with all law enforcement and emergency personell being federalized. Military helicopters drop supplies off, while soldiers wearing [[GasMaskMooks hazmat suits]] haul away any infected people identified, while preventing others from leaving areas of infection (by deadly force if necessary). Soldiers begin patrolling the streets and declare that people must stay in their homes, with it being a felony to harbor anyone infected. Later they are also indicated to be firebombing sites so the infection is stopped. This is portrayed as harsh, but probably necessary.

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* EmergencyAuthority: It's announced that to handle the worm flu crisis, US President UsefulNotes/BarackObama has declared martial law, with all law enforcement and emergency personell being federalized. Military helicopters drop supplies off, while soldiers wearing [[GasMaskMooks hazmat suits]] haul away any infected people identified, while preventing others from leaving areas of infection (by deadly force if necessary). Soldiers begin patrolling the streets and declare that people must stay in their homes, with it being a felony to harbor anyone infected. Later they are also indicated to be firebombing sites so the infection is stopped. Also, the governor of California orders that people evacuate the region. This is portrayed as harsh, but probably necessary.
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* EmergencyAuthority: It's announced that to handle the worm flu crisis, US President UsefulNotes/BarackObama has declared martial law, with all law enforcement and emergency personell being federalized. Military helicopters drop supplies off, while soldiers wearing [[GasMaskMooks hazmat suits]] haul away any infected people identified, while preventing others from leaving areas of infection (by deadly force if necessary). Soldiers begin patrolling the streets and declare that people must stay in their homes, with it being a felony to harbor anyone infected.

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* EmergencyAuthority: It's announced that to handle the worm flu crisis, US President UsefulNotes/BarackObama has declared martial law, with all law enforcement and emergency personell being federalized. Military helicopters drop supplies off, while soldiers wearing [[GasMaskMooks hazmat suits]] haul away any infected people identified, while preventing others from leaving areas of infection (by deadly force if necessary). Soldiers begin patrolling the streets and declare that people must stay in their homes, with it being a felony to harbor anyone infected. Later they are also indicated to be firebombing sites so the infection is stopped. This is portrayed as harsh, but probably necessary.
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* BodyHorror: When a person is fully infected, the parasitic worms are seen gruesomely protruding from their ears, clicking while they sense uninfected nearby to attack.
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* InterruptedIntimacy:
** Stacey interrupts her boyfriend having sex with another girl at a party, to her rage.
** Later she tells her sister Emma she'd walked in on their dad with one of his grad students.
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* EmergencyAuthority: It's announced that to handle the worm flu crisis, US President UsefulNotes/BarackObama has declared martial law, with all law enforcement and emergency personell being federalized. Military helicopters drop supplies off, while soldiers wearing [[GasMaskMooks hazmat suits]] haul away any infected people identified, while preventing others from leaving areas of infection (by deadly force if necessary). Soldiers begin patrolling the streets and declare that people must stay in their homes, with it being a felony to harbor anyone infected.
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* WildTeenParty: Stacey and Emma unwisely go to one during the worm flu outbreak. There is lots of teens drinking, carousing, and wildly dancing to loud music before the party ends as an infected boy starts attacking partygoers there.

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* WildTeenParty: Stacey and Emma unwisely go to one during the worm flu outbreak. There is are lots of teens drinking, carousing, and wildly dancing to loud music before the party ends as an infected boy starts attacking partygoers there.partygoers.
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* WildTeenParty: Stacey and Emma unwisely go to one during the worm flu outbreak. There is lots of teens drinking, carousing, and wildly dancing to loud music before the party ends as an infected boy starts attacking partygoers there.
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* ZombieApocalypse: The worm flu that spreads rapidly across the US results in people turning into {{parasite zombie}}s, with people having to quarantine and flee the infected.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: The worm flu's first symtom is victims spitting blood up.


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* ThePlague: The worm flu that spreads with bodily fluids, which results in people turning into {{parasite zombie}}s.


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* SiblingYinYang: Stacey is cool, reckless, carefree and bold. Her sister Emma is reserved, obedient, responsible and cautious.
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Not to be confused with the upcoming 2022 thriller film of the same name directed by and starring Creator/BlairUnderwood.

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''Viral'' is a 2016 SciFiHorror film directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost.

The movie follows sisters Emma (Creator/SofiaBlackDElia) and Stacey (Creator/LioTipton), two newcomers in the suburbs of California struggling with their parents' strained relationship. Quickly, things get worse when a strange disease outbreak happens in the city, and they are cut off from their parents while trying to survive in the town.

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''Viral'' is a 2016 American SciFiHorror film directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost.

The movie film follows teenage sisters Emma (Creator/SofiaBlackDElia) and Stacey (Creator/LioTipton), two newcomers in the suburbs of to a California suburb who are struggling with their parents' strained relationship. Quickly, things Things quickly get worse when an outbreak of a strange disease outbreak parasitic virius happens in the city, and they are cut area, cutting the girls off from their parents while trying and forcing them to survive in the town.
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''Viral'' is a 2016 science fiction horror movie directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost.

The movie follows two sisters, Stacey and Emma, two newcomers in the suburbs of California and struggling with their parents' strained relationship. Quickly, things get worse when a strange disease outbreak happens in the city, and they are cut off from their parents while trying to survive in the town.

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''Viral'' is a 2016 science fiction horror movie SciFiHorror film directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost.

The movie follows two sisters, sisters Emma (Creator/SofiaBlackDElia) and Stacey and Emma, (Creator/LioTipton), two newcomers in the suburbs of California and struggling with their parents' strained relationship. Quickly, things get worse when a strange disease outbreak happens in the city, and they are cut off from their parents while trying to survive in the town.
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The movie follows two sisters, Stacey and Emma, two newcomers in the suburbs of California and strugling with their parents' strained relationship. Quickly, things get worse when a strange disease outbreak happens in the city, and they are cut off from their parents while trying to survive in the town.

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The movie follows two sisters, Stacey and Emma, two newcomers in the suburbs of California and strugling struggling with their parents' strained relationship. Quickly, things get worse when a strange disease outbreak happens in the city, and they are cut off from their parents while trying to survive in the town.

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* ParasiteZombie: The infected are homicidally violent, cannibalistic {{TechnicallyLivingZombie}}s controlled by parasitic worms.

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* ParasiteZombie: The infected are homicidally violent, cannibalistic {{TechnicallyLivingZombie}}s and controlled by parasitic worms.
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''Viral'' is a 2016 science fiction horror movie directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost.

The movie follows two sisters, Stacey and Emma, two newcomers in the suburbs of California and strugling with their parents' strained relationship. Quickly, things get worse when a strange disease outbreak happens in the city, and they are cut off from their parents while trying to survive in the town.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Stacey is dead, but Emma and Evan survived the infection and the subsequent bombing, implying the parasites are dead. When fleeing the town, Emma finds that her parents are well too, and waiting for her in Washington, on her uncle's house.]]
* EyeScream: A particular well known scene in the movie has the parasites walking between Stacey's eyes and skin.
* HopeSpot: After an impromptu surgery on Stacey, Emma and Evan believe they're on the clear to flee the town. [[spoiler:But it turns out the parasite is already taking over Stacey, so she asks for them to end her.]]
* HorrorHunger: The infection will leave the infected person with an unbearable hunger and have them eating non-stop is an early sign of the infection. In later stages, they'll start trying to eat other people.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Emma is forced to do this to Stacey after they realized the surgery didn't stop the parasites already taking over her brain. She is forced to shoot her sister before she completely loses herself to the parasite.]]
* NonIndicativeTitle: Despite the title of the movie being "Viral", there's no virus involved in the plot. The sickness is caused by a parasite.
* RoadsideSurgery: Afraid of what might happen to the infected Stacey, Evan and Emma devise a plan to surgically remove whatever is inside the growth in her nape. [[spoiler:Midway through the surgery, a knocked out Stacey wakes up and rips the parasite out of her neck herself with her bare hands.]]
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