Brightburn vs Contamination

Contamination has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.1/10 for Brightburn). Brightburn is the shorter watch at 1h 31m compared with 1h 47m. Brightburn is the older of the two (2019 against 2025). Both are horror, science fiction movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Brightburn posterBrightburn2019 VS Contamination posterContamination2025
BrightburnContamination
Audience score★ 6.1/10★ 10.0/10
Year20192025
Length1h 31m1h 47m
GenresHorror, Science FictionAction, Horror, Science Fiction
Country–Canada
DirectorDavid YaroveskyDavid Heacock, Neil Chase
Main castMeredith Hagner, David Denman, Gregory Alan Williams, Elizabeth Banks, Jennifer HollandElizabeth Chamberlain, Neil Chase, Brandon Horth, S-Raj Kumar, Tyler Sabourin

Synopsis

Brightburn

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

Contamination

A top secret Alaskan lab goes dark due to an unexplained incident, prompting the military to send a black ops team to recover sensitive data and destroy the lab, only to find their ranks infected with a deadly alien virus.

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