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Ian McCulloch (Actor), Louise Marleau (Actor), Luigi Cozzi (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: Blu-ray
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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: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00TOUHB3Q
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 972 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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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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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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4.0 out of 5 starsAnother Quality Product From Arrow
By Norbie on 2 Sept. 2015
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
The movie might be crap but Arrow puts as much love into Contamination as to any of their classic film releases. My favorite is the transfer, the swanky slip that comes with the first printing, and the really informative commentary by FANGORIA editor Chris Alexander. Also amusing is the behind-the-scenes featurette "Notes on Science-Fiction Cinema" which has director Cozzi take us through the making of the film.

Now my pet peeve.....re-cycling scenes from other documentaries, mix matching them, cut and paste, and "making" new featurettes/documentaries; this is what you get here with "Imitation Is The Sincerest Form of Flattery: A Critical Analysis of the Italian Cash-In". They feel cheap and unprofessional. What Arrow have done here is just cut and paste from Calum Waddell's feature length documentaries "Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film" (which can be found in 88Films release of ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST) and "42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Block" (also found in 88Films release of ANTHROPOPHAGOUS). Now, if you don't have those releases, or even Grindhouse blu-ray CANNIBAL FEROX, you won't know any better and find the information new and refreshing. I didn't and felt disappointed. But that's me, and you are you.

Despite that one hiccup I don't regret purchasing this directly from Arrow.
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