Also released as
- Alien Contamination
- Toxic Spawn
- Brut des Grauens, Die
- Contamination - Brut des Schreckens
- Contamination: Alien on Earth
- Contamination - Alien arriva sulla Terra
- ホラー・マニアックスシリーズ 第13期 第3弾 エイリアンドローム
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Contamination
Contamination is a 1980 Italian creature feature directed by Luigi Cozzi. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, later dropped without a successful prosecution.
An Alien knock-off with exploding chests and a Goblin score doing heavy lifting throughout.
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An Alien knock-off with an enormous Goblin score doing more work than everything else combined.
Alien eggs arrive in New York on a cargo ship from Colombia and burst people from the inside in slow motion, which is the film's one effect and it is deployed roughly every twelve minutes.
Luigi Cozzi made it fast to catch the wave, and the ambition is visible in the budget's absence: the Martian cyclops in the final act is a rubber puppet lit as darkly as the negative would allow.
The score is excellent and was released on its own merits.
Listed by the DPP, dropped, and it is now passed uncut. The chest bursts are the reason it was on there, and they are slower and gooier than anything in the film they are copying.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · listed, then dropped
UK now Passed 15 uncut in 2004
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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