Contamination (1980)
"You can feel them in your blood!"
ThumbScore
👍 67%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 40%
(RT: 40%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Ian McCulloch as Commander Ian Hubbard
Louise Marleau as Colonel Stella Holmes
Marino Masé as Lieutenant Tony Aris, NYPD
Siegfried Rauch as Hamilton
Gisela Hahn as Perla de la Cruz
Carlo De Mejo as Agent Young
Carlo Monni as Dr. Turner
Mike Morris as Dr. Hilton (uncredited)
Is Contamination good?
It's divisive. 67% audience score, estimated from 148 TMDB ratings. Critics scored it lower at 40%, but audiences disagreed.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
