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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.

Overview

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Director:
Luigi Cozzi
Writers:
Luigi Cozzi (screenplay)
Luigi Cozzi (story)
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Release Date:
June 1982 (USA) more
Tagline:
You can feel them in your blood!
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
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From the way it starts it looked like it would be the goriest movie ever. more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Ian McCulloch ... Commander Ian Hubbard
Louise Marleau ... Colonel Stella Holmes
Marino Masé ... Lieutenant Tony Aris, NYPD
Siegfried Rauch ... Hamilton
Gisela Hahn ... Perla de la Cruz
Carlo De Mejo ... Agent Young
Carlo Monni ... Dr. Turner
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Angelo Ragusa ... Warehouse Man
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Alien Contamination (USA) (cut version)
Astaron - Brut des Schreckens (West Germany)
Contamination - Alien arriva sulla terra (Italy)
Contamination: Alien on Earth
Toxic Spawn (USA) (video title (cut version))
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Runtime:
95 min | USA:84 min (R-rated version)
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
West Germany:18 (nf) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | France:-12 | Iceland:(Banned) | Norway:(Banned) (video rating) (1984) | UK:(Banned) (1984-2004) (original rating) | UK:15 (video rating) (2004) | USA:R | Australia:R
Filming Locations:
Colombia more

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Crew or equipment visible: When the first technician in the derelict ship picks up the egg, a camera Matte box is visible on the left side of the screen, dollying back. more
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Colonel Stella Holmes: Help! Let me out! There's an egg! more
Movie Connections:
References Alien (1979) more

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2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
From the way it starts it looked like it would be the goriest movie ever., 25 May 2003
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Author: Aaron1375 from Alabama

This movie starts off with a bang. A ship without a crew ends up in New York City. It has these mysterious pulsating eggs aboard. The eggs explode and anything the stuff inside the eggs touches explodes as well. This movie is a take on the movie "Alien", though this one is set on earth. Like I said this one starts out with numerous deaths, but it tails off in the middle, sort of picks up in the end, but it never matches the gore level it had in the first half hour or so. Ian is good in this one as an ex-astronaut, but the rest of the cast could have been replaced. They needed a better female lead, as the one they had was too old. I listened to an interview with the director of this film and he wanted someone younger, but the producer thought they needed someone older and less attractive. He won and we have lines that were definitely made for a younger woman still left in lines like, "you are one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen". All in all an enjoyable sci-fi flick, but it could have been a lot better if the energy of the beginning could have been used throughout.

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