Review of Contamination (2008) by Private U — 13 Jul 2007

This was so bad. Like many other Italian low-budget horror films this one immediately suffers from terrible dubbing. Then the script is terrible too. The script seems like it was written in Italian and then translated to English by an Italian who has no idea about how English-speaking people actually talk. Tension is built by the actors doing stuff slowly which is just crap. Everything seems to be in slow-motion for no real reason. Another thing that there is no reason for is most of the actions in the story - they make no sense. There is nothing original about this film except the way that it unashamedly rips off so many other films. Many sections do feel like a bad American seventies porn film from wooden acting and awful dialog. There is no reason for anything. The American government think that they can stop the world from destruction by using a military officer, a New York cop who was at the wrong place and a drunken ex-astronaut - now that is not going to work. On the plus side it was slightly better than the very similar film - Demons 3: The Ogre.

In one word: Bad.