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Contamination (1980)

It’s not a sequel to Queen of Blood, but it almost could be: a ship filled with alien eggs (hidden among coffee grounds, cocaine-style!) drifts into New York harbor with the help of astronauts recently returned from Mars—one of whom is acting under the influence of a giant extra-terrestrial cyclops with designs on taking over the world. The green slime inside the eggs makes human beings explode on contact, so it goes without saying that Contamination—directed by Italian horror and fantasy mainstay Luigi Cozzi, who also made Starcrash and co-wrote the screenplay for Dario Argento’s Four Flies on Grey Velvet—gets mighty sloppy, mighty often.