Contamination
Directed By Luigi Cozzi. Starring Ian Mcculloch (1980)
When
Luigi Cozzi made Contamination he took the poster for Alien, borrowed a little
from Invasion of the Body Snatchers and went to the fridge to see what other
moldy eggs or gunk stuck in there might also inspire him. Clearly eggs and
people in hazmat suits are a nice chunk of the hilarity that occurs in
Contamination and that Goblin score keeps you sedated and glued to the screen.
It's a lot of fun and the best Luigi Cozzi film in my opinion. I actually saw
his stupid Lou Ferrigno Hercules movie in the theater with my dad when it came out.
Cozzi
is a huge sci fi nerd (he also made that Buck Rogers deleted episode with Joe
Spinell, otherwise known as StarCrash)
and seems inspired by all the classics, consider him an Italian Forest Ackerman
but with less money (and even less talent).
I
always love when Al Cliver's disembodied voice shows up (or Ed Mannix), it dubs
a few people in this one, it's gotten more work then Al himself.
An
unmanned ship full of corpses is found (similar to the one in Zombi 2) but only
giant green eggs are on board, they sing, gyrate and explode.
The
green eggs travel off the boat and now are hanging out at a coffee bean factory
and unleash their deadly yoke in the faces of a clean up crew. It starts a
gruesome chain reaction of bursting organs and a shower of what resembles a
gushing overstuffed human bean burrito.
Louise Marleau plays Col. Stella,
originally Cozzi wanted Caroline Munro, but was pressured by the producers to
hire this significantly older Canadian actress instead. She works at an
experimental government defense lab. The score is pretty rad and sounds like
heavy bass (Goblin's Fabio Pignatelli is a maniac on the instrument) played
over Atari sounds. The title track sounds like the middle part of “Heart of The
Sunrise” by Yes but with overdriven videogame noises.
I'm
glad they took the chest bursting from Alien concept to irrational lengths and
there are tons of slo-mo shots of meaty intestines flying around. In Alien a
single chest is busted open, but in Contamination the eggs cause the rupture just
from being picked up.
Two
spaceman; Hamilton and Hubbard are accused of delivering the menace from Mars
to Earth and sought out by the defense team of scientists. Ian Mcculloch, every
gore fans favorite crispy haired bloke plays Ian Hubbard (son of old Mother).
Everything in his house is plaid and liquor bottles are lying around
everywhere. Hubbard is all broken up about his boyfriend Hamilton betraying
their friendship and covering up the egg conspiracy. Stella bullies Ian into a
trip to S. America and he slaps her full force in the face. It turns out
Hamilton is running an alien Easter egg sanctuary hidden in a delightful coffee
factory. Apparently in this film, eggs can only be smuggled in as coffee with
no exceptions! I mean eggs and coffee are synonymous with breakfast… it’s all
making sense now right?
A
big egg that looks like a glowing slimy football is dropped next to the toilet
while Stella is showering. It makes slow groaning stomach type sounds or slowed
down Chewbacca.
Ian
hangs out in the jungle during one scene, rambling about zombies (perhaps he
wandered onto the island of Matool by accident). Instead he finds hazmat suit
wearing egg farmers who use microwaves to incubate the alien spawn. The basement
cyclops (or the mother alien) looks like something off a Sam Arkoff poster, it
crunches Stella's spaceman boyfriend. I love Contamination, highly recommended! It's split up in parts right now on Youtube so watch it that janky way or buy the DVD.
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| Wampa's easter egg cave |
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