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Director Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce, the follow-up to his most popular hit Poltergeist, is a film that must be seen to be believed. That's not really a compliment, though, since Lifeforce isn't much of a movie when all the sound and fury is over. But you've got to admit there's something crazily admirable about a picture that starts out as a science fiction mission to Halley's comet, turns into an alien-invasion thriller featuring a beautiful naked woman (Mathilda May) who's a vampire from space and escalates into an end-of-the-world disaster flick.
Armed with a big budget and a special effects crew led by Star Wars pioneer John Dykstra, Hooper and Alien cowriter Dan O'Bannon have whipped up a concoction that's got everything anyone could ask of a horror movie--from zombies running amok in London to rotting corpses and energy bolts that signal the apocalypse to come. Keeping it all together is Steve Railsback as the Halley-mission survivor who holds the key to mankind's salvation--but what fun is saving the world when you could be seduced by a sexy naked space vampire? Check out Lifeforce to see how it all turns out. --Jeff Shannon
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IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, THE TERROR BEGINS.
When a space shuttle crew finds a mysterious spacecraft containing three human-looking creatures in a state of suspended animation, they bring them back to Earth for further investigation.
It's only then that scientists discover that they are in fact a race of space vampires that feed off people's life-force rather than their blood. So when they escape and run amok in London, the consequences are apocalyptic - and the shuttle crew's only survivor (Steve Railsback) seems to be the only man who can stop them.
Based on Colin Wilson s novel The Space Vampires , co-written by Dan O Bannon (Alien, Return of the Living Dead) and directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist), this lively sci-fi horror romp has a stellar cast including Peter Firth, Frank Finlay and Patrick Stewart - although it's Mathilda May's appearance as a naked female alien that attracts most attention to this day.
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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
"Lifeforce" boasts a rousing, thunderous score by Henry Mancini, it boasts some hilariously straight-faced acting, some very proficient visual effects and a generous helping of most agreeable soft porn. You could do much, much worse than check out this movie. Is it a bad movie? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on your poison. But it is unquestionably an enjoyable movie. One of those pesky, interfering space missions goes and brings a trio of "space vampires" back to Earth, one of them being a uniformly nude Mathilda May, who has a bit of a thing going on with one of the astronauts, Colonel Carlsen (a delightfully earnest Steve Railsbeck), in between feasting on the "lifeforce" (as opposed to the blood) of various extras and minor roles, reducing them to hideous, dessicated, shrieking, mindless husks that in turn seek out the "lifeforce" of other people. That is where the glorious destruction of London comes in, later on in the proceedings and very well handled for a film that endures a reputation for being amongst the worst ever made. There is imagery within those sequences that is up there with the blockbusters. "Lifeforce" has a perfectly creditable cast, including a pre "Spooks" Peter Firth as SAS Colonel Caine, Frank "Bouquet Of Barbed Wire" Finlay as one of the boffins and Patrick Stewart gobbing out a lot of blood from his mouth. The fact that they play this trash so seriously is one of the fun aspects. Oh, come on - it's trash. But it is glorious trash. It is proud trash. Trash is sometimes good, and here you have an example. "Lifeforce", the celluloid Big Mac - of no nutritional value whatsoever, but very, VERY enjoyable. Tuck in.
37 of 41 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The greatest naked space vampire zombies from Halley's Comet running amok in London end-of-the-world movie ever made
15 Dec 2007
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Danny Boyle was not the first person to realise that zombies can run like the clappers. That honour belongs to Lifeforce, which is, of course, the greatest naked space vampire zombies from Halley's Comet running amok in London end-of-the-world movie ever made. Tobe Hooper may have made a lot of crap, but for this deliriously demented epic sci-fi horror he deserves a place among the immortals. Plus it offers space vampire Mathilda May, the best thing to come out of France since Simone Simon, spending the entire movie naked. Which she does very, very well. Just bear in mind that while she is the most overwhelmingly feminine presence anyone on Earth has ever encountered, she's also "totally alien to this planet and our life form and totally dangerous." It's a pitch meeting I'd have loved to have sat in on: Astronauts from the British space program find three naked humanoid alien life forms inside a giant 150-mile long artichoke/umbrella shaped spaceship hidden in the tail of Halley's Comet filled with giant desiccated bats and bring them back to Earth with near apocalyptic results as they proceed to drain the population of London of their lifeforce amid much nudity, whirlpools of thunder and spit your coffee across the room direlogue ("I've been in space for six months, and she looks perfect to me." "Assume we know nothing, which is understating the matter." "Don't worry, a naked woman is not going to get out of this complex."). Oh, and we'll get the writers of Alien and Blue Thunder to write it with uncredited rewrites by the writer of Mark of the Devil, The Sex Thief and Eskimo Nell and the director of The Jonestown Monster. Sounds like a winner, here's $22m - have fun. And they do, they do. Read more ›
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By I Am Tyler Durden
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This is brilliant fun set in some weird Americanised sterotype version of London. The special FX are really great and so are the creature FX particularly the shrivelling up when the vampires drain you. Tobe Hooper films are often hard to pin down, I can never make up my mind if the campiness in this was intentional or just down to plain incompetance. The best line is when a couple of vampires have been blown to bits and someone says "Collect up the pieces and WATCH THEM!!". You've seen shots inside NASA mission control, all those people? Europe mission control in this is like one guy with a radio! Priceless beer and popcorn entertainment.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Mr Blonde
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As a Sci-fi fan born in the early 90s I know the charms of Silent Running, the influential magnitude of Mertroplis and I even know how Soylent Green is made. These are great science fiction films that even if you weren't born when they were released all sci-fi fans know of them because they are cult classics and will always have an active fanbase. So how come so many people including myself have never heard of Lifeforce. Perhaps it's the crappy title (though it's an improvement over the original source called Space Vampires) which sounds like a Yoga instruction video but this film is a classic. It's well made with some astounding practical special effects which I would say are as good as Carpenter's 'The Thing' (and that is very high praise indeed). It is simply so much fun, it starts off like Alien with the investigation of a derelict space craft, then turns into a hunt for the killer alien on Earth before turning all apocalyptic with panic on the streets of London and the end of the world insight. The alien woman is naked all the time and although it sounds exploitative it's actually a very clever part of the plot and the lack of shame at being nude and stared at makes it feel even more alien. This film is on quite a large scale for it's time and it's interesting seeing such an epic story filled with British actors and settings. This British-ness combined with the nudity and horror special effects create the feeling of the most epic Hammer Horror production ever. This is a great film which deserves to be viewed by a modern audience, it's well made, well acted and it is fun to see a film that is British but has no restraint, it is aiming to be as epic as possible and it achieves this in a really great opening and climax.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Crazy
Crazy but fun. Cheap and arrived quickly.
It's quirky and worth a watch.
Some surprising faces make an appearance in this film
It's quirky and worth a watch.
Some surprising faces make an appearance in this film
Published 1 month ago by Alex Blackburn
3.0 out of 5 stars
A new vampire twist
I hadn't seen this movie before, so I wing'd it when I bought it. It was an ok sci-fi movie from the 80's, but not much more. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Bergkvist Mattias
3.0 out of 5 stars
good
life force is good film i do like that alot very good i tho i like it thank you good film
Published 3 months ago by robert
4.0 out of 5 stars
graham lifeforce cole
this is one of my favourite movies! I just lurve the hammy acting. a naked girl alien adds to the fun! special effects are as good as they can be given the age of the movie. Read more
Published 4 months ago by graham cole
5.0 out of 5 stars
At last we meet again.
This is one of those forgotten little Gems of a movie, from the late great Movie Eras that was the 80's, good plot, acting and effects for the era, a true Gem that takes me back to... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Darren
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lifeforce: it'll be much less terrifying if you just come to me!
Throwaway lines, great special effects, Mathilda May naked, Peter Firth hamming it up, Mathilda May naked, Steve Railsback shouting a lot and Mathilda May naked. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mike "JetSetWilly" Wilcox
3.0 out of 5 stars
How many drinks would it take to make this seem like a good film?
Earth orbit, the recent past. A space shuttle approaches a gigantic spaceship hidden in the tail of Halley's Comet. Four crew members enter the sub-H.R. Read more
Published 6 months ago by dra
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not the best sci-fi film
Read some good reviews but not quite as good as anticipated. Has some good moments and worth viewing as a curio
Published 6 months ago by mike York
5.0 out of 5 stars
Genius! So bad it's great.
Camp, compulsive and very funny. Defo worth a watch, just be prepared to look on the funny side. This film is not to be taken as seriously as the actors have!
Published 7 months ago by Slabby
3.0 out of 5 stars
Life Force
I bought this spur-of the-moment, but on reflection I wish I hadn't. This may be a cult film for some people but it didn't really deliver properly, for my liking. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Martin
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