

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.
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5.2/10
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- Released
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- Language
- Italian
- planet mars
- gore
- alien
- creature
- police detective
- video nasty
- alien attack
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Germany, Italy
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR11 Jun 1982
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalR18+26 Dec 1980
FranceFR
- Theatrical1215 Jul 1981
GermanyDE
- Theatrical185 Sept 1980
ItalyIT
- TheatricalVM142 Aug 1980
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/182 Jan 1981
Frequently asked questions
Contamination was released on 2 August 1980.
Audience reviews
3- T7/10
talisencrw
4/22/2016
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' and 'Rome, Open Ci…
- R
Reb_Brown
2/13/2018
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! Things immediatel…
- T5/10
Tourma
3/19/2025
# 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 1980 as hell music re…
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