*In the interview on the DVD, Luigi Cozzi talks about how hard it was to make Contamination after just doing a big-budget movie like Starcrash. That's not so much interesting as really damn funny to anyone who has seen that movie. Yeah, that's a big budget film!
*Cozzi talks about how the writing process was done in a shared office with the guys behind Zombi II. He decided that since they talked so much about the movie, they should just get the cast of that movie. They got Ian McCulloch and nearly got Caroline Munro from Starcrash, but...
*The studio decided that they wanted the boss character to be older, so they got French-Canadian actress Louise Marleau. You replaced the bikini-clad Munro with her? Good call- not!
*Cozzi maintains (at least then) that he wished that they had used the original title- Alien Comes to Earth. Instead, we got Contamination internationally and Alien Contamination on VHS.
*He also explains that he loved sci-fi, but it was not popular in Italy. As such, he simply turned all of his films 'a little sci-fi,' regardless of subject matter. This makes sense to those who have seen his movie where Hercules fights clockwork robots (Hercules), where Sinbad fights a swamp monster who shoots lasers (a video review to come) or watched Hercules have a 'lightsaber' fight with a wizard (Hercules II).
*I should also mention that Ferrigno was the star of all three of those films. Have fun being a pawn, Hulk?
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