Lifeforce (1985)

Lifeforce

Since I am a Steve Railsback fan (Helter Skelter), I enjoyed this movie. Knowing that this was not recognized by the Academy for acting or plot, you need to know that it a really good "B" film. However, the animation for its time is excellent. And of course, the significant amount of nudity, with a very healthy and beautiful woman, is a welcome bonus. September 2, 2008

A wild movie with an incredible special effect!

Blood and Rain
Blood for the Masses

LifeForce

Directed by
Tobe Hooper

Starring:
Steve Railsback
Mathilda May

Reviewed by
B.L.Morgan

4 Stars

First of all take my rating of 4 with a very big grain of salt. Through the years I've watched LifeForce six or seven times. It's one of my favorite movies to watch. LifeForce gets the 4 stars because of a whole slew of glaring flaws. Not because it's not fun to watch. Movies that would rate higher and are better made are not nearly as entertaining as LifeForce is.

This movie was based on Colin Wilson's novel The Space Vampires and I read that Wilson was very angry with this version of his book. The LifeForce I have runs 1 hour and 56 minutes. There is supposed to be a much longer version of this movie somewhere that Colin Wilson loved. I've never been able to find that one.

About the movie itself: LifeForce is about a space voyage that goes out to meet Haley's Comet. When they get there they find an alien spacecraft and 3 aliens in suspended animation inside the comet. The aliens, 2 males and 1 female are brought back to Earth where they reawaken.

Mathilda May is the female vampire who gets up completely naked and sucks the LifeForce out of the soldier guarding her. She then walks around for a good portion of the movie without a stitch of clothing on. I owe some sore ribs to Mathilda because my wife was sitting beside me as we were watching LifeForce and she asked me, What are you staring at?" and elbowed me.

"I'm just researching the subject," I told her. That got me another elbow. You'd think I'd know better by now.

Any male of our species with half a male hormone in his body would stare at Mathilda May walking around nude. She plays what's supposed to be Steve Railsback's perfect vision of a woman. I bet she fits a lot of other guys perception of perfection too.

The guard Mathilda had for dinner looked like a dried apple when she was done with him. 2 hours later he wakes up and sucks the LifeForce from somebody else. And so it goes and so it goes until London is over-run with thousands of LifeForce sucking zombies.

That's where the flaws come in. At certain places the story just seems to jump ahead. This is probably a matter of bad editing. Also, there's no explanation of why there are thousands of people who can't control their craving for sucking LifeForce when we're shown 2 examples of people who calmly set-up victims for their feeding. Maybe it just looked scarier to have packs of wild maniacs running in the streets rather than individuals quietly luring someone into a dark corner.

If you've never seen LifeForce I'd highly recommend you check it out. It's got great special effects, both in space and on the Earth and a wild storyline. It's also got Mathilda May displaying the equipment that God gave her. She's a special effect all by herself.

You've gotta see this one!

Oh yeah, watch the movie too. August 27, 2008

Space Vampires

It has interesting and different view on vampires. In this case, its not about blood or even an aspect of the undead. This movie touches the aspect of space vampires who sucks in a sensual manner the lifeforce that we all humans have within ourselves. It touches that in everything there is an energy that exists that gives us our life. August 2, 2008

Freaked me out as a kid, and pretty sexy for a horror flick

An, unusual, kind of classic cult horror movie.
A lot of British actors, filmed in England.
Fairly artistic, and a joke in some parts, but with it's really creepy moments. Sexy. That's what stood out about this movie to me as a kid, it was pretty sexy, traumatic, and ridiculous, all at the same time.
She, the energy vampire chic, runs around London in the nude. Seducing, and leaving freeze dried dead bodies in her wake. Her dessicated victims, stirring with a bit of remaining life, give bedroom eyes to the nearest people, seducing them into being their next victims. A plague ensues. Oh, and I forgot to mention, if they don't feed, they seize/convulse, let out a hag screech, and explode into dust. It's hilarious. Anyway, it's a kind of Love story, this astronaut guy, falls for the lead vampire chic, and it seems she likes him too, because, she won't suck him dry, and they have a telepathic communication thing happening. There some hot and heavy make out scenes, between him and her, and her otherwise nude physique dons a glamorous vamp robe in some parts.
What I thought was cool was the vampires were electrical, and there was some pretty cool, artistic, special effects goin on there.
An end of the world type scenery unfolds, meanwhile, and it's kaos in the streets. Haly's comet can be seen in the sky glowing greenly and creepily overlooking an orgy of frenzied, life force feeding, amongst the populace.
And as all this is happening, various characters, such as scientists and government officials, are running around trying to figure out what's going on. They use the Love sick astronaut guy, to lead them to her, and try to get the deal.
By the way, there is a scene in a helicopter, that WAS VERY CREEPY, and still creeps me out to this day as a 27 year old adult. I still can't stand to think about it in the dark. EWW, very scary. The helicopter scene. It's worth it for that.
Enjoy April 3, 2008

Best in its class

It's the best space adventure, beautiful naked vampire, zombie plague that destroys London film ever made.
March 29, 2008

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