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Weird mixture of genres (Alien-like sci-fi, Body Snatcher-like invasion movie and a Zombie finale) with great masks and terrible acting. Still the entertainment factor is pretty high.
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Not a bad little 80's horror/sci-fi from Tobe Hooper. It has its problems (horrible acting, cheesy dialogue, and it runs a little too long) but it is pretty fun and unique. The concept is something I haven't really seen before. Pretty awesome practical effects for the time! Definitely gonna pick this bad boy up on Blu when Scream Factory releases it!
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Naked. Space. Vampire.
Ok, if for some reason you still need a reason to watch this film, let me put it another way.
NAKED. SPACE. VAMPIRE.
Still more?
How about reassuringly old-school special effects, defiantly unglamorous English locations, a possessed Patrick Stewart, dodgy 80s sexual politics, FACE BLOOD!, one of the great reaction shots in cinema history (Peter Firth, near the end, when you see it, you'll know it), underwhelming zombies, "a Golan Globus production"...
Did I mention the NAKED SPACE VAMPIRE?
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OK, I admit it, I'm a fan of Lifeforce, and it's not just because of the vast swathes of nudity.* Not that I can't see the flaws - this is after all a film that (ahem) climaxes with a man able to save the earth by having sex, in fact he's so good at sex that he sends himself and his partner flying up into the air - but it is also fun, ambitious, scary and dare I say it…
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A film that involves sexy naked space vampires shouldn't be this dull. It has all the makings of a suspenseful Quatermassy sci fi thriller but it somehow just winds up being a raggedy, plodding mess with story logic that would make Argento wince.
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This is my Second review for this film on this site, but the reason being is that this was the completely different American cut. The Distributor, Tri-star, cut the film for US audiences thinking that we weren't intelligent enough to get the nuances of O'Bannon and Jakoby's script. The final product is less interesting and scenes seem to come from nowhere but it does move along quicker, so I'll give them that. Among the glaring cuts are the opening titles…
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Slightly dated but nevertheless entertaining film based on the Colin Wilson novel - The Space Vampires
Starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay and Patrick Stewart although the star of the show is undoubtedly the beautiful and completely naked ( throughout the majority of the film ) Mathilda May!!!! Schwing!!!!!!
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I'll be Goddamned if anyone is going to tell me this isn't a fantastic film. Upon this viewing I paid strict attention to the Great effects by Dykstra and the hard-shadowed, dolly dominated camerawork by the Under appreciated Alan Hume. Dan O'Bannon's script gets a 'lil clunky, but It's funny where it should be and the ideas about the creatures dominating their victims minds is quite weird and seriously ahead of its' time. The brit stalwarts, led by Firth and…
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I checked out Tobe Hooper's loony, infamous sci-fi flop many years after I first saw it as a young teen, when, at the time, my main concern was with Mathilda May's...fearless...performance. Now that I'm older I can appreciate it for what it was: Hooper's attempt at his own Hammer/Nigel Kneale-style, Quartermass-esque mix of the scientific, the intellectual and the supernatural. It's a bunch pf plummy British character actors (including a pre-Trek Patrick Stewart) and an intense Steve Railsback running around…
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The pitch "space vampires plus 30 straight minutes of full frontal nudity" probably won't get your movie made anymore. Maybe if the pitch was "sexy-but-chaste teen space vampires plus 30 minutes of musical montages set to Muse" you could get that sucker sold. And that's a shame.
Being that this was Tobe Hooper's follow-up to Poltergeist and has a writing credit from Dan O'Bannon (Alien), I could see why audiences were confused and disappointed when this was released. But once…