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Contamination(Movie, 1980)

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| 1h 35min | Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror
ContaminationRating: 2.6/5 (with 4848 votes)
Contamination (a.k.a. Alien Contamination, Toxic Spawn or Larvae) is a 1980 science fiction-horror film directed by Luigi Cozzi and starring Ian McCulloch. The film is about an alien cyclops creature that uses human agents to place eggs all over Earth. The eggs release a gelatinous goo that causes people to explode when they come into physical contact with the substance.The tagline on the Italian one-sheet ("...e ora tocca a voi!") translates as "...and now it's your turn!". ()
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About Contamination

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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Contamination (1980) ORIGINAL Trailer(Trailer, 3:13)

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Contamination (1980) ORIGINAL Trailer (Trailer) | Connexion from Alien Contamination (1980) Music by Goblin (Clip) | German (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production countries: Germany, Italy
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: Italian (IT)
Translated into 11 languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 06/11/1982 (World premiere: 08/02/1980)
Director: Luigi Cozzi
Producer: Claudio Mancini
Screenwriter: Luigi Cozzi, Erich Tomek
Film Editor: Nino Baragli
Director of Photography: Giuseppe Pinori
Composer: Goblin
Production Designer: Antonello Geleng
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Brut des Grauens, Die"
"Contamination - Brut des Schreckens"
"Contamination - Alien arriva sulla Terra"
"Alien Contamination"
"Contamination: Alien on Earth"
"Toxic Spawn"

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Other movies with this title: Contamination (GB, 2004), Contamination (US, 2008), Contamination (US, 2013)

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