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Branded as a video nasty in the UK, director Luigi Cozzi s Contamination takes the premise of Ridley Scott s classic Alien and peppers it with exploding guts galore and a dangerously infectious soundtrack from celebrated Italian prog-rockers Goblin (Deep Red, Suspiria).
A cargo ship drifts up the Hudson River. Its crew: all dead, their bodies horribly mutilated, turned inside out by an unknown force. Its freight: boxes upon boxes of glowing, pulsating green eggs. It soon becomes clear that these eggs are not of this planet, and someone intends to cultivate them here on Earth. But who? And to what end?
Starring Italian horror veteran Ian McCulloch (Zombie Flesh Eaters), Contamination is an ultra-violent sci-fi epic that really gets under the skin. In space, no one can hear you scream but on Earth, the terror rings loud and clear!
- Arrow Video
- 91 mins approx.
- Luigi Cozzi
- 15
- Ian McCulloch
- Siegfried Rauch
- Marino Masé
- Gisela Hahn
- Louise Marleau
- English SDH
- 1980
- English
- 1
- 1
- Arrow Video
Branded as a video nasty in the UK, director Luigi Cozzi s Contamination takes the premise of Ridley Scott s classic Alien and peppers it with exploding guts galore and a dangerously infectious soundtrack from celebrated Italian prog-rockers Goblin (Deep Red, Suspiria).
A cargo ship drifts up the Hudson River. Its crew: all dead, their bodies horribly mutilated, turned inside out by an unknown force. Its freight: boxes upon boxes of glowing, pulsating green eggs. It soon becomes clear that these eggs are not of this planet, and someone intends to cultivate them here on Earth. But who? And to what end?
Starring Italian horror veteran Ian McCulloch (Zombie Flesh Eaters), Contamination is an ultra-violent sci-fi epic that really gets under the skin. In space, no one can hear you scream but on Earth, the terror rings loud and clear!
- Arrow Video
- 91 mins approx.
- Luigi Cozzi
- 15
- Ian McCulloch
- Siegfried Rauch
- Marino Masé
- Gisela Hahn
- Louise Marleau
- English SDH
- 1980
- English
- 1
- 1
- Arrow Video
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Contamination
I remember watching this back in the 1980's on VHS. It was a heavily cut copy, with murky 4:3 picture. The music would build in intensity and then - nothing would happen as the good stuff was cut out. So of course I jumped to watch it in 16:9 restored version. At first I was worried as the picture quality was full of grain, but then it because clear that the first 2 minutes were used to death stock footage. When we got to the movie itself, the picture was spot on. Arrow have restored it in a beautiful widescreen version, with just the right amount of grain to make it feel authentic, and a beautiful picture image. The picture quality was so good that I could easily see where the camera operator lost focus sometimes, and even spotted two men on the deck of a 'deserted' ship in the first minute. All part of the fun. And at last the gore! Hooray for exploding chests. It's all here, and well worth the wait. I have to admit that the middle of the movie is a little slow, but its worth the Goblin music alone, and we build to a lovely finale featuring 'the cyclops! Well worth adding to your collection.
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