Pandemic horror Contagion is currently one of the most-watched films on Netflix. The 2011 thriller from director Steven Soderbergh now feels very timely due to its focus on a deadly virus sweeping the globe as the world today faces the coronavirus pandemic.
The film follows a fictional newly emerged virus - the MEV-1 pathogen - which spreads across the globe and wreaks havoc with the lives of countless people.
Contagion is made up of multiple parallel plot threads that show the scope of the threat and how efforts are made to combat it and the effects the pandemic is having.
However, the chilling film managed to 'predict' a number of aspects of a deadly virus hitting the world's human population. *Spoiler warning for Contagion* Having
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