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5.2/10 • 133

1980-08-021h 35m

Science FictionHorror

You can feel them in your blood!

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.

Directors
Luigi Cozzi
Editors
Nino Baragli

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  1. Ian McCulloch

    Ian McCulloch

    Commander Ian Hubbard

  2. Louise Marleau

    Louise Marleau

    Colonel Stella Holmes

  3. Marino Masé

    Marino Masé

    Lieutenant Tony Aris, NYPD

  4. Siegfried Rauch

    Siegfried Rauch

    Hamilton

  5. Gisela Hahn

    Gisela Hahn

    Perla de la Cruz

  6. Carlo De Mejo

    Carlo De Mejo

    Agent Young

  7. Carlo Monni

    Carlo Monni

    Dr. Turner

  8. Mike Morris

    Mike Morris

    Dr. Hilton (uncredited)

  9. Brigitte Wagner

    Brigitte Wagner

    Doctor (uncredited)

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talisencrw

Apr 22, 2016

7/10

Little did cinema realize when it happened just how much Sergio Leone's first two entries of 'The Man With No Name' trilogy, in making spaghetti-western versions of Akira Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' and 'Sanjuro', would be an influence, today, 50-odd years later. It could be said that in the fervor of Italian directors going from one filmmaking trend to the next (from the neorealist agenda of 'Ossessione' and 'Rome, Open City', to swords-and-sandals epics, then spaghetti westerns, then the crime films of the 70's, then space invasion films, such as this, after the huge global success of Sir Ridley Scott's 'Alien' and George Lucas' 'Star Wars') has had almost as much an influence on cinema as the groundbreaking game-changers that initiated this mass-production. It taught virtually all filmmakers that with a fraction of the huge Hollywood budget, a couple of ideas could be extrapolated into a much cheaper film that could ride on the coattails of success of its way-more-famous predecessor. Being nostalgic, there were some things that really scored big for me and made me raise my rating: Seeing the Twin Towers of New York City again, the Goblin soundtrack and the Cannon Pictures logo, especially. It's a suspenseful, well-made for its expense sci-fi film that isn't simply worth a watch, but is worth owning a copy and re-watching as well. This is most definitely one of my finer finds from my ominous Mill Creek 50-pack, 'Nightmare Worlds'.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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