
Without Warning(1980)
Sandy and Greg are teenagers who go camping, despite warnings not to, with their friends. They soon encounter aliens, who are using the area as a hunting ground.


“You can feel them in your blood!”
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Ian McCulloch
Commander Ian Hubbard

Louise Marleau
Colonel Stella Holmes

Marino Masé
Lieutenant Tony Aris, NYPD

Siegfried Rauch
Hamilton

Gisela Hahn
Perla de la Cruz

Carlo De Mejo
Agent Young

Carlo Monni
Dr. Turner

Mike Morris
Dr. Hilton (uncredited)
Brigitte Wagner
Doctor (uncredited)

Angelo Ragusa
Warehouse Worker (uncredited)
Contamination is a science fiction, horror film released in 1980 exploring themes of planet mars, gore, alien, creature, police detective, video nasty. Directed by Luigi Cozzi, it stars Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé. A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
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