Contamination
You can feel them in your blood!
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.
- 5.2
- 1980
- Released
- 1h 35m
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
Mike Morris
Dr. Hilton (uncredited)
Brigitte Wagner
Doctor (uncredited)
Angelo Ragusa
Warehouse Worker (uncredited)Nat Bush
Warehouse Worker (uncredited)
Released
en
- #planet mars
- #gore
- #alien
- #creature
- #police detective
- #video nasty
- #alien attack
Reviews
# Weeeee Wooooong Inexplicably one of the better movies Rifftrax has done. Not to say that it's good, but might even be watchable without the joke commentary. Everyone can act, the dubbing is halfway decent, the lead actress is good looking, the premise is good enough. The aliens are unique. The highlight though is the music is by _The Goblin_. I've never heard of them before, but his 1
For those who saw ZOMBIE, this film starts hilariously similar, featuring an empty vessel floating into New York Harbor while a cop comments that the skipper of that craft "must be a real turkey". Also you'll hear right away a lot of voice-over by Nick Alexander, who was the voice of one of the most prominent characters in ZOMBIE. It's an exploitation movie exploiting a fellow exploitation movie!
Little did cinema realize when it happened just how much Sergio Leone's first two entries of 'The Man With No Name' trilogy, in making spaghetti-western versions of Akira Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' and 'Sanjuro', would be an influence, today, 50-odd years later. It could be said that in the fervor of Italian directors going from one filmmaking trend to the next (from the neorealist agenda of 'Ossessione