Contamination

Contamination

You can feel them in your blood!

R 1980 · 95 min · ★ 5.2 · Science Fiction, Horror

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.

Directed by Luigi Cozzi · Written by Luigi Cozzi

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