Year Of The Knockoff! Saturn 3 (1980)

Farrah Fawcett looks like she knows she made a huge mistake. Kirk Douglas looks like he just doesn't care. I know I just covered an Alien knock off, but I had forgotten that 4.26 was Alien Day, so I figured why not jump right back into the Alien pool with another 1980 quick cash grab attempt that had a higher budget than Contamination, but somehow has a plot that makes less sense. Let's take...

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Year Of The Knockoff! Contamination (1980)

In honor of the egg related holiday weekend, I thought I would take a look at a not so egg-cellent unofficial sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece, Alien. Contamination feels like if Alien was written over and over again due to budget restraints but at the same time the plot got fuzzier and fuzzier with each rewrite. This is what Alien would look like it there was such a thing as an R-rated...

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