Review of Contamination (2008) by Rick F — 14 Sep 2010

Ah, Luigi Cozzi, when you go wrong, you go wrong so well! This time out, Cozzi brings us his vision of "Alien comes to earth." An abandoned ship carrying coffee crates filled with gigantic avocados arrives in New York. But wait, those aren't avocados! They're eggs from Mars made of bacteria, and when they get warm they explode... and if the egg-goo gets on you, you explode, too! A colonel from a secret military organization, a NYC cop and a washed-up astronaut team up to stop the green egg menace from destroying the world... using a combination of guns, flamethrowers, computers that look like something off the bridge of the original Enterprise, and dialogue so dangerously cheezy that it ought to be subject to international treaties.

"Contamination" is well into trash masterpiece territory. The scenery-chewing performances by lead trio Louise Marleau, Marino Mas and Ian McCulloch are truly epic, and they appear to be having a good time with every minute of it. The three actors must have known they were in an awful movie and poured their hearts into making it as ridiculous as possible. The gore is plentiful, with lots of exploding viscera liberally splattering the lens accompanied by much screaming and groaning. And the rubber, tentacled space cyclops monster behind the whole thing... classic!

If you're looking for a well-crafted, terrifying science fiction horror movie... forget this one. If you're looking for a whacked-out where everything that can go wrong does go wrong in the most laughable way possible, see this one! This is Troma does "Alien" without trying to be funny, which might just be the most entertaining thing of all.