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Contamination( 1980)

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You can feel them in your blood!

Overview

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Ian McCulloch

      Commander Ian Hubbard

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      Louise Marleau

      Colonel Stella Holmes

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      Marino Masé

      Lieutenant Tony Aris, NYPD

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      Siegfried Rauch

      Hamilton

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      Gisela Hahn

      Perla de la Cruz

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      Carlo De Mejo

      Agent Young

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      Carlo Monni

      Dr. Turner

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      Mike Morris

      Dr. Hilton (uncredited)

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      Brigitte Wagner

      Doctor (uncredited)

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      Angelo Ragusa

      Warehouse Worker (uncredited)

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      Nat Bush

      Warehouse Worker (uncredited)

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    A review by talisencrw

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    Written by talisencrw on Fri Apr 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 City', to swords-and-sandals epics, then spaghetti westerns, then the crime films of the 70's, then space invasion films, such as this, after the huge global success of Sir Ridley Sco...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Keywords

    • planet mars
    • gore
    • alien
    • creature
    • police detective
    • video nasty
    • alien attack