Contamination

Alien by way of Rome, with exploding chests and a Goblin score doing an enormous amount of heavy lifting. Eggs from Mars produce a slime that makes people burst, and a small team traces the plot back to its source, and Luigi Cozzi stages the gooey set pieces with real enthusiasm on a modest budget.

It is derivative and knows it, but the pulsing Goblin music and the gleeful chest-bursting give it a genuine drive-in charge. It landed on the video nasty list for the gore.

Cheap, colourful and entertaining Italian sci-fi horror. Turn the score up.