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Contamination [Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD] [Region A & B]

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Ian McCulloch (Actor), Louise Marleau (Actor), Luigi Cozzi (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: Blu-ray
4.1 out of 5 stars 9 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé
  • Directors: Luigi Cozzi
  • Format: CD+DVD, PAL
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region A/1, Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Arrow Video
  • DVD Release Date: 6 July 2015
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00TOUHB3Q
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 8,383 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Branded as a video nasty in the UK, director Luigi Cozzi s Contamination takes the premise of Ridley Scott s classic Alien and peppers it with exploding guts galore and a dangerously infectious soundtrack from celebrated Italian prog-rockers Goblin (Deep Red, Suspiria).

A cargo ship drifts up the Hudson River. Its crew: all dead, their bodies horribly mutilated, turned inside out by an unknown force. Its freight: boxes upon boxes of glowing, pulsating green eggs. It soon becomes clear that these eggs are not of this planet, and someone intends to cultivate them here on Earth. But who? And to what end?

Starring Italian horror veteran Ian McCulloch (Zombie Flesh Eaters), Contamination is an ultra-violent sci-fi epic that really gets under the skin. In space, no one can hear you scream but on Earth, the terror rings loud and clear!

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:

  • Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original camera negative
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
  • Original Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
  • Newly translated subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
  • Brand new audio commentary by filmmaker, Fangoria editor and Contamination super-fan Chris Alexander
  • Notes on Fantasy Cinema: An archive documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage and director Luigi Cozzi on the birth of Contamination
  • 2014 Q&A with Cozzi and star Ian McCulloch
  • Sound of the Cyclops: Maurizio Guarini on the music of Contamination the Goblin keyboardist discusses Contamination s dark, progressive rock score and a lifetime of making music for Italian terror
  • Luigi Cozzi vs. Lewis Coates a brand interview with the director in which he discusses his filmmaking career from past to present · Imitation Is The Sincerest Form of Flattery: A Critical Analysis of the Italian Cash-in a brand new featurette looking at the Italian genre movies which sought to cash-in on popular Hollywood blockbusters
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin
  • Fully-illustrated collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Chris Alexander

Region: A+B/1+2

Review

McCulloch is always a hoot to watch --DVD Drive-In

a supremely fun watch --The Film Connoisseur

Pulsating alien eggs, ham acting and liberal amounts of cheese make for a satisfyingly silly sci-fi omelette --Movie Gazette

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5.0 out of 5 starsWell done Arrow Video!!
By Mark S. on 21 Jun. 2015
Format: Blu-ray
Fantastic transfer Well done ARROW. Keep up the good work! Fellow Reviewers, If you have issues with bad dubbing (this film doesn't) or bad story lines! Why are you watching these movies?? Leave them alone!!! Go slag off the Hobbit like it deserves!
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4.0 out of 5 starsA Film To Put You Off Mushy Peas Forever!
By Brett on 3 April 2016
Format: Blu-ray
A strange Naval Vessel has pulled into the New York harbor and there's not a soul on board ... what should i do?

a) Assume everyone has gone on strike and contact the local shipping union?
b) Get worried about the former Captain's obsession with strawberries?
c) Assume the crew got too drunk in a brothel during the last shore leave?
d) Assume that gory Alien seed pods from Mars have invaded and get suited up in de-contamination suits as quickly as possible?

Thus, before you can say exploding rats, the world is in the grip of a (silica composed) dill pickle Contamination! (aka Alien Contamination). Just what does the New Italian NYPD do under such circumstances? Hire over-the-hill female scientist Louise Marleau - who has a fetish for stealing mens clothes, to freeze and burn them. But wait, its not working. What we really need is to find the source; and find someone who's dubbing isn't quite so bad! Enter everyone's favourite razor voiced thespian Ian McCulloch. Who we are reliably informed in out-of-the-blue exposition was part of a terrifying mission to Mars that exposed a whole nestful of combusting gherkins, that are also capable of brain washing ... now were really in serious Invaders From Mars territory!

Contamination, for some reason looking like The Brain From Planet Arous on Arrow's blu-ray cover (?), begins and ends with some wonderful first-hand New York location photography, and a great deal of second-hand silliness inbetween. For instance, if you come into contact with an erupting seed pod, for reasons which are never made clear, you too will explode! Cue the odd slow-mo shirt ripping beef offal moment and your film is officially on governments most wanted list! There actually are a couple of genuinely eerie scenes of sheer tension.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsMovie is only ok but the release from Arrow is great
By Darkness on 20 Nov. 2015
Format: Blu-ray
The movie itself is only ok at best, it was an Italian rip off of Alien, or at least that's what it tried to be. The acting ranges from ok to a bit bad, effects are decent for its time & are pretty good especially the gore effects. Basic plot is some small, egg like things were found on Mars, brought to earth & if they explode next to you, your chest bursts open. There's also a weird looking "queen alien" type thing at the end of the film & if you pay close attention on a certain scene you can see a wire holding up a large tentacle that eats you. Sound out there? It is. The middle of the movie starts to drag a bit & honestly the overall plot makes little sense If you pay attention. Now the package put together by Arrow Video is fantastic. The movie does look great. There are plenty of extras like commentary, trailer, interviews with various cast & crew , Q&A with the director & star, graphic novel based on the original screenplay & a little booklet with writings on the film. If you manage to get one of the first print run you also get a nice slipcover. If you like 80s B movie horror/sci fi films, you may just enjoy Contamination. Also if you happened to grab one of the first 1000 (I think) it also comes with a very nice slipcover.
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5.0 out of 5 starsCONTAMINATION
By MADMAN TOP 500 REVIEWER on 3 April 2016
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
I seem to be saying this a lot recently, and that is Arrow are doing a fantastic job of their films.

The Blu-ray quality is very nice it gets a 4/5, the sound is in Mono 1.0, film ratio 1.85.1.

You get two discs and a nice revisable sleeve, plus loads of bonus features.

The subtitles are English SDH.
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4.0 out of 5 starsConfronting the Cyclops: You're next...
By Euromancer TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 1 Mar. 2015
Format: Blu-ray
I'm writing this review now prior to the Blu-Ray release (I will add my comments on the picture quality et cetera when it is issued and I've purchased it) as I feel that many people misunderstand the numerous sources of inspiration behind the film due to poor grasp of Science Fiction history: usually dismissed as a cash-in/rip-off of 'Alien' (itself a film based on a book first published as a serial in a magazine in 1939, A E Van Vogt's 'Voyage of the Space Beagle'), 'Contamination' homages numerous pioneering works of SF cinema and their source novels.

"Contamination" was created by Luigi Cozzi (credited as 'Lewis Coates' on US prints), one of Argento's sidemen, who always comes across as a lovely bloke in bonus features on DVDs of films he is connected with. Meshing the themes of the alien invasion of earth in classic 1950s human-takeover style with the exploding-chest gore of "Alien", "Contamination" is fine, gory SF/Horror fun.

The film also bears a certain resemblance to "Quatermass 2" (Cozzi has said that 'Contamination' deliberately homages the film version, known as 'Enemy From Space' in the USA), the 1950s TV serial/film written by Nigel Kneale, which is the source of the biohazard suit/gas mask in all zombie films - in Nigel Kneale's script, the guys guarding the aliens are referred to as 'zombies' - this is in the mid 1950s. The first Quatermass series, Heinlein's "The Puppet Masters" (novel) and Jack Finney's "Body Snatchers" (filmed four times, twice as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers") all appeared in the same year.Read more ›
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