Saturday 21 December 2013

Contamination (1980)

Contamination is an Italian horror/sci-fi film that was made to tap into a similar financial vein as Ridley Scott's Alien. - Or so I'm told.  The plot is predominantly earthbound and concerns a former astronaut who helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.  Its also known as; Alien Contamination, Contamination: Alien on Earth and Toxic Spawn.  Here's a couple of images from the space bit.

A helmet in a helmet...That's new.
 
 
Steve

5 comments:

  1. For some real-life spacesuits, a light cloth helmet was worn inside the spacesuit helmet to hold earphones and microphones steady. You can see it here on Gagarin's suit:

    http://alchetron.com/Yuri-Gagarin-829904-W

    However, a crash helmet? Yeah, that's new.

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  2. Have to wonder where the actual 'suits' come from, this movie is very cheap so I doubt it was bespoke...this suit also got reused very briefly in 2019: After the Fall of New York a few years later, minus the helmets.

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  3. Oh! Just been looking through your blog more (it is so good) and seems these spacesuits here were reused entirely from Le Ormur aka Footprints on the Moon (1975) - even the helmets inside the helmets!

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