Lifeforce

If you enjoy horror and science fiction films, but you've never seen "Lifeforce"... Well, you probably should.
The story was written by Dan O'Bannon, the same guy who wrote the original "Alien" and who later wrote and directed "Return of the Living Dead". It was directed by Tobe Hooper, who also directed the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (Parts 1&2) and "Poltergeist".

Hot French model Mathilda May plays a stark naked female vampire from outer space who sucks out human energy (or "life-force") instead of blood. This instantly reduces her poor victims to withered, dehydrated, mummified remains. The most disturbing moments in the film involve these victims, waking up after an attack (usually in the morgue) to find themselves totally alive and aware - but looking like emaciated corpses. These pathetic souls gaze down at their skeletal hands and bodies with bug-eyed horror, then look around at everybody else and start screaming and panicking. This situation occurs two or three times in the film and it's creepy as hell every time. At another point in the movie Patrick Stewart pukes up a huge quantity of blood, but instead of splattering on the floor, the blood floats into the air as a red blob, and the female space vampire manifests out of it. Bizarre, gruesome, and surreal at the same time!! The end of the movie is literally an explosive climax with most of London going up in a blaze of glory... The images are great: Huge fires against a black night sky, the blue lightning bolts of human life-force flying around all over the place, and most of the citizens turned into mutated zombies. And as if that weren't enough, the female space vampire's partner - a male space vampire - transforms into a giant, somewhat goofy-looking space vampire BAT MONSTER! ..."Lifeforce" is one of those crazy early-1980's sci-fi/horror movies that most people have forgotten about... but it's a lot of fun if you ever get a chance to see it.


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