Contamination (1980)
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Luigi Cozzi
Written By: Luigi Cozzi, Erich Tomek
Starring: Carlo Monni, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch, Louise Marleau, Gisela Hahn, Larry Dolgin, Carlo De Mejo, Ian McCulloch, Edward Mannix, Nick Alexander, Angelo Ragusa, Mike Morris
Genres: Sci-fi, Action, Horror
AKAs: Alien Contamination, Toxic Spawn
Country: Italy, West Germany
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Contamination belongs to 20 collections
1. Psychotronic Film and Video Guides (collaborative: moderated by Gregzilla - 40 stars)
2. Video Nasties (collaborative - 13 stars)
3. Films available in HD (collaborative: moderated by kubricksucks - 13 stars)
4. Aliens (collaborative: moderated by td888 - 12 stars)
5. Rifftrax (collaborative: moderated by x-human - 8 stars)
6. Synth soundtrack or score (collaborative: moderated by Ag0stoMesmer - 8 stars)
7. Alien clone/rip-off (collaborative: moderated by edkrak - 4 stars)
8. edkrak films to see (public: edkrak - 4 stars)
9. Italian cult/genre/B-movies (public: edkrak - 4 stars)
10. Female Shower Scene (collaborative - 2 stars)
11. Goblin (collaborative: moderated by edkrak - 2 stars)
12. The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies (book) (public: Ag0stoMesmer - 2 stars)
13. Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews (public: BeeDub - 2 stars)
14. Animal killing (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 1 star)
15. Italian horror (collaborative: moderated by mattburgess - 1 star)
16. Amazon Prime Latam (collaborative: moderated by Roman_Herbom - 1 star)
17. Cinema Sewer (collaborative: moderated by mattburgess)
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20. The Horror Geek (public: BeeDub)
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BillyShears | 60 34th |
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“lady scientist Colonel Exposition and her crabapple wispy haired sidekick Ian McCulloch will return in ...” So many people blow up in the same disgusting manner and so much time is spent waiting for more people to blow up. I spent the run time trying to piece together what year this is suppose to take in, it looks like Spaceballs.
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TimeCapsule | 35 21st |
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Although there are some decent B-movie charms and unintentional laughs to be had in this boring Italian "Alien"(1979) knockoff, sadly the majority of this bad Italian schlock is just made up of patently wonky dubbing and gratuitous exposition, which makes the movie more tedious than anything else. Only for your hardcore low-rent Italian sci-fi/horror fans.
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terrymac | 41 11th |
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There is some good stuff here. The opening premise is fine, there is a good Goblin score, some of the effects are likeably icky, and there's Ian McCulloch. Sadly, the positives are weighed down by a rank script (dreadfully dubbed) and moments of abject tedium. A very low-rent attempt to cash in on the success of Alien...has some charm, but little else to recommend it.
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Yiannos | 40 7th |
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Contamination begins semi-promisingly as a c-grade earthbound knockoff of Alien, but when the action moves to South America the viewer is subjected to near interminable stretches of utter tedium where nothing of interest happens. The slo-mo death scenes quickly grow repetitive---it's the same damn gut explosion ad nauseum/infinitum--and the score that accompanies them only adds to the hilarity (unintentionally). The pace picks up in the finale, but not enough to save it.
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joseywales | 41 17th |
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Clips along at a nice pace and the gore moments are fun, the Goblin score is also very nice. Other than that, Contamination is very formulaic and obviously 50 minutes of story stretched into 90 minutes of movie. Love the exploding rat!
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hotsake | 37 15th |
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It's surprisingly slow and boring at only 95 minutes. The story itself is not bad but the acting, dubbing and most everything else is pretty lame.
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backwardsuit | 53 15th |
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Overall boring film but could be worse for a cheap italian Alien rip-off. It's somewhat charmingly bad and the score is hilarious.
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| Average Percentile 29.65% from 110 Ratings |  |