Also known as: Contamination, Toxic Spawn, Larvae, Aliendrome, and Contamination: Alien on Earth.
Luigi Cozzi is a well known Italian schlock hero basically, and he's been seen on this blog multiple times. I also got this movie confused many times with Shocking Dark, which was a another Alien ripoff out of Italy in 1989. Shocking Dark was a much more entertaining version of this, but this is fun too.
Basically, in this there was a former astronaut who reported seeing Alien-style eggs, no one believed him, and he was disbanded. Now, a ship pulls up to a harbor chock full of Alien-style eggs and Colonel Stella Holmes is on the case. The eggs emit a strange ghostly sound, and seem to partially control you? It's unclear. It's also unclear if there are aliens in the eggs or not, but what is clear is that they pose a threat and Stella is going against them.
Also continuing another thing I've been doing, is that I read this was labeled as a Video Nasty when it came out, a label I truly do not understand especially if I saw the original cut. There's no nudity and very little gore in this movie, by today's standards it might actually be a PG-13 movie practically.
The movie varies wildly with its pacing. I will say, I had a couple of stout beers and watched this, and I paid attention as much as one could, but I couldn't quite track what was happening. There's a lot of dialogue and there's endless scenes in this movie, and I tuned it out eventually.
I got back into it by the time the "alien queen" shows up at the end, and that's a hilarious and awesome effect. Overall, it is hit and miss, but I enjoyed it thoroughly and I would recommend it as a soft intro to the sort of ripoff Italian stuff you might not know existed.
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