Contamination
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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.
- Patrick WaiOctober 11, 2026Alien on a Dollar-Store Budget Contamination feels like a poor man’s Alien, except much slower and considerably less convincing. Even allowing for 1980 pacing, this thing crawls, and I can imagine a modern audience getting restless pretty quickly. The whole production has the feel of a made-for-TV movie that occasionally remembers it’s supposed to be a gory sci-fi horror film. The acting is pretty terrible, the dialogue doesn’t help, and some of the attitudes toward women are wow-level misogynistic, even by the standards of its era. But there is one reason to watch it: the practical effects. The exploding bodies and alien effects have that wonderfully gooey, handmade quality that CGI simply doesn’t replicate. They’re easily the most memorable part of the movie. Unfortunately, there isn’t enough around them. The story, performances and pacing make the whole thing feel like the B-movie Alien knockoff that it is. Watch it for the practical effects. Everything else is pretty disposable.
- neomoonsevin2024December 27, 2025Pacing is broken camera views could have been improved the story took to long to come down the testicle the cyclops looked great but the rest looked like cheese
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Contamination was released on August 2, 1980.
Contamination was directed by Luigi Collo.
Contamination has a runtime of 1h 35m.
Contamination was produced by Claudio Mancini.
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.
The key characters in Contamination are Commander Ian Hubbard (Ian McCulloch), Colonel Stella Holmes (Louise Marleau), Lieutenant Tony Aris, NYPD (Marino Masé).
Contamination is rated R.
Contamination is a Horror, Science Fiction, Adventure film.
Contamination has an audience rating of 3.1 out of 10.