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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GoodWatch score 81
GoodWatch score 70
GoodWatch score 69August 2, 1980 · 1 h 35 min · R
Refusal of the Call, Too Dumb to Live, Exploitation Film +9
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In the United States, Contamination streams on FlixFling and Full Moon, and it is free with ads on Plex, The Roku, FlixHouse, Pluto TV, Fawesome, and Tubi TV. You can rent or buy it from Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, and FlixFling. It also streams in 130 other countries.
Reviews are weak, with a GoodWatch score of 44 (IMDb 5.1).
At times: scares are rated 7 of 10, and some images are gruesome (grotesque 9 of 10).
Mostly plot-driven: intrigue (7 of 10) and spectacle (7 of 10) carry it more than its characters do.
TV Tropes lists 24 tropes for it, including Refusal of the Call, Too Dumb to Live, and Exploitation Film.
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