The Horror Movie Night Cookbook

By Cindi Sutter - Excerpted from The Horror Movie Night Cookbook by Richard S. Sargent. Copyright © 2023 Ulysses Press. Reprinted with permission from Ulysses Press. New York, NY. All rights reserved.

CONTAGION (2011)

Did we not just live through this movie? I mean, damn. How accurate was this? At least Beth had one last night of fun before she ended up…well, you know.

The entire film centers around a pandemic, much as the early 2020s have. Let’s make the best of it and give it a signature cocktail that we can raise to our fallen brothers and sisters.

KILL LEVEL: Easy | BODY COUNT: 1 drink | PREP TIME: 5 minutes

THE PANDEMIC

Ingredients

3 ounces banana liqueur

1 ounce scotch

1 ounce sherry

1 tablespoon lime juice

1 tablespoon ginger syrup (from the pickled ginger jar)

Dash of angostura bitters

Pickled ginger slices, for garnish

Instructions

1. Mix all the liquids together in a cocktail shaker. Serve over ice. Garnish with a few slices of pickled ginger.

2. Try to pretend the pandemic didn’t happen.

3. Never watch Contagion again.

Drinking Game: Take a drink every time you experience déjà vu from basically living this movie.