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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  Contamination (1980)
I enjoyed this a lot more on Blu-ray than i did my only previous watch on dvd.
Directed by Luigi Cozzi, this certainly capitalizes on the success of Ridley Scott's Alien from the year before even if the only thing it really directly lifts are alien eggs, which explode and kill anyone nearby in increasingly gooey ways rather than alien creatures that appear from the eggs and inhabit the bodies of humans. In fact there's as much a homage to Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters as there is Alien. Watch it and spot the similarities early doors. There's several, not including star Ian McCulloch.
It's as much a pseudo Bond style hi-tech espionage thriller as sci-fi horror film - the fact it's set on Earth adds to this - and works well as an amalgamation of both genres thanks to a moderately pacy script and flashes of directorial flare by Cozzi. |
Is That on the Arrow Blu-Ray?