Adapted from the Michael Jurassic Park Crichton novel, The Andromeda Strain is a biological/alien life-form/laboratory experiment story...in short, it's a Sci-Fi and a damned good one.
Plot: A satellite crash lands in the small town of Piedmont, USA and subsequently the populous dies. Launching an investigation, the US government retrieves their satellite and two survivors (a baby and the town drunk), taking them to a high-tech, underground lab- Codename Wildfire (5 levels deep, with a variety of different decontamination procedures and colour coded), where a crack team of scientists dissect and probe the subjects with all manner of tests leading to eventual climax and query.
Shot in 1971, this cold war era story capitalizes on paranoia and over preparedness to set the teeth a chattering and the nerves on edge. Superb.
Budget: $? (they must have spent a fair bit, the design on the lab alone is worth the viewing)
Gross: $?
Line of the film: "I never liked red lights, reminds me of my years in a bordello".
Fun Fact: There was a remake made a few years back by the Scott brothers (Ridley- Alien and Tony).
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