What Scanners went on to do for human heads, Contamination does for human chests: explodes them all over the place in splattery fashion. Unfortunately the film feels like a special effect in search of a plot; everything but the gore is lacklustre, with some cheap-looking sets at the beginning, an incredibly daft-looking monster at the end, and a whole lot of tedious exposition in between. Ian McCulloch is horribly miscast as an alcoholic former astronaut, but at least has some screen presence. Some decent FX and music (from Goblin) aside, Contamination is only worth watching for the interminable scene in which a central character is locked in her bathroom and, banging on the door to get out, has to deliver the terrifying line, "Help! Get me out of here! There's an egg!"

At least it's better than Paganini Horror and The Black Cat...

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Damn it, this movie is just awesome!

i'd say the whole first half is solid gold Italian Alien cheese rip off heaven ..... then things slow waaaaay down when our heroes travel to South America because the Alien eggs were shipped to NY in SA coffee containers (i know). the giant alien overlord ending makes it all worth it and it could very well be the master Luigi Cozzi's "best movie" (although i feel Star Crash and his Hercules films are fucking awesome)

Ian McCulloch of Zombie Flesh Eaters "fame" pops up in this dodgy Alien rip-off about these big alien eggs that blow up in your face and then make your stomach and chest blow up in your face. After many a blown face the source of the eggs is traced back to a coffee plant in South America and McCullochs piss head ex-astronaut stumbles off to do battle.
Okay in parts,boring in others and the exploding effects are repeated so often you'll never want to see another intestine fired through a tube again.

This film's heart is definitely in the right place, not poorly written just slow moving and borrows too much from better movies.

An unabashed cash-in on Ridley Scott's Alien, Cozzi's film is more than the sum of its parts. The acting, music and gore effects make it perfect for a drinking game with the lads.

Cheap Alien knock-off feature a great score by Goblin and incredibly awesome slo-mo exploding human torsos by someone who is much cooler than I am.

It was as expected. Naff, funny, cheap....and with a pretty cool soundtrack by Goblin.

Denigrated (somewhat unfairly) as an Alien ripoff, this film is a fun splatterfest that is less a straight rip of the Ridley Scott masterpiece and more a B-movie imagining of what if those pods came to Earth. I really enjoyed this.