A quaintly English space mission, rather then say 14:30GMT(or ZULU for the military types amongst you) he says 2:30pm GMT. Kind of like how Captain Mainwaring couldn't do the 24 hour clock.
@sebaXXXteacher and hence by accident found one of the funniest low budget 80s horror movies ever to be released. I love this film along with Krull, hawk the slayer, Leviathan and of course Conan the Destroyer ... it gets me all nostalgic!
@UFOSPACE1999 : "There is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art." - Douglas Sirk
@antartaud neither trash nor craziness is a quality. I fail to see how you can add two negatives and come up with a positive. Unless of course you multiply them, but if that is so, please demonstrate. Grazie mille
@Econniff: Good point! I had not noticed that before and I have seen Lifeforce more times than I would admit to. On a side note this film is notable for its lack of fu**ing bad language which endears it to me. Bloody, Damm or Barstewart is about as strong as it gets.
I don't remember this intro... The one i saw was totally different, much shorter, with huge stretched lettering saying "Lifeforce" during a short time (Aliens-esque of sorts) and no voice over. Different cut or edit?
One thing about this movie is that it's British sci-fi - even if it is ropey. So slightly annoyed by the American bits tacked on like the voiceover. How can you ruin such a classic? ;)
Thank you so much for posting this. I remember seeing this when it was first released on video. I recall that Space Girl's (Mathilda May) nudity was a really big deal at the time; it was considered really shocking! And whatever happened to Steve Railsback? He was cool - I remember seeing him Australian shocker 'Escape 2000' (AKA 'Turkey Shoot'). It would be great to see him make a comeback.
Wilson also wrote a great novel called "The Mind Parasites" which shares some ot these plot ideas. Both derive from his fascination with H.P. Lovecraft
And of course Hooper did the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Wilson also wrote a great novel called "The Mind Parasites" which shares some ot these plot ideas. Both derive from his fascination with H.P. Lovecraft
That title saying Lifeforce is not like that in the UK one. It comes in top and bottom clamps together and glows. The music is also really dark. Then it cuts to the shuttle shot. No American voice over either. Weird.
I like the score. Colin Wilson was aghast at what they did with his novel. I read the novel. I was aghast at it and the screenplay. They both stink. Steve Railsback is genuinely awful--quite shouting, you twit, and try acting! The first scenes at the alien spacecraft at pretty good. Too bad nobody thought to follow them up with a movie that has a good storyline and a good script.
@Johnlindsey289 Not a remake, please. A bad classic is still a classic. Campy as this movie is, Mathilda May in robes hanging over Steve Railsback's bed is an image i'll never forget.
My favorite over the top film. But the titles are not the same as original version, so this has probably been edited to death. There was no narration either. Messed up bad.
@alexalex3131 --- there was a 101 minute version, and a 116 minute version. What we have here (with features including the opening narration) is the 116 version.
I agree, it's a nice take on vampire and zombie lore don't you think? did you ever watched this movie as a kid and had a crush on her? she's up there with Sil from Species, Lee the centerfold bounty hunter from Critters 2, Neytiri from Avatar, Cheetara from Thundercats, Diana from V or whatever alien hottie there is. It's nice to see a vampire movie that shows vampires aren't all the same stereotype you know.
@Johnlindsey289 Yeah, i saw this one on video when i was a kid and i had quite a crush on Mathilda. This is easily one of the best and most truly unique vampire films ever made.
It's also a zombie movie too since this movie shows that vampires and zombies originated from aliens. This movie had early fast zombies on film with Nightmare City and The Stuff, i guess this influenced Dawn of the Dead 2004 and 28 Days Later. It's nice to see vampires with no fangs, not biting people etc. but sucking energy instead like in Sleepwalkers, The Dark Crystal, The Keep, Captain Kronos etc. i guess you can call this "The Keep in Space" since it is similar.
@Johnlindsey289 Reee thats what I said, " come out until the year before". And since the movie was made also in 85' the tapes were still the technology of the day.
Now we have DVDs and Blu-Rays as the technology. You glad just because the vampires are different, doesn't mean they sparkle?
Gotta admit the lead vampiress is one of the hottest aliens on film next to Diana from V, Lee the centerfold bounty hunter from Critters 2, Neytiri from Avatar or whatever.
@Johnlindsey289 Hey don't look at me, I grew up watching Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, these pretty boys these days can't hold a candle (or stake) next to them.
However the lady vamps do make you wish to make a deposit at the local blood bank.
(Just because I'm old doesn't mean I'm dead....yet)
@kovalitch LOL lord I hope not, something about the smell of putrefaction might slacken my sexual urge, but I must say the young lady is rather well long lasting even for a vamp, or in this case wouldn't she be a succubus, life instead of blood.
I think the WRAITHs of the Stargate Atlantis were created with an eye to the Sapce Vampires of LifeForce. (I can see only one important difference: in Stargate Atlantis there is nowhere a beautiful Wraith like Mathilda May in LifeForce...)
Sleepwalkers, Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter, The Keep, Not of this Earth etc. all have vampires that suck energy instead of blood. Now Rabid has a biological made vampire that requires no fangs but an implant under her pits, The Dark Crystal's Skecksis are vampires too but they drink essence instead of blood.
Would you compare this movie to Twilight in terms of movies with unconventional vampires?
After "Poltergeist" was a big hit, Hooper was given "carte blanche" and a huge budget to make any film he wanted to. This is the result. It's got a lot going for it: a big international cast and the special effects supervisor is the same guy who worked on "Star Wars" and the Spiderman movies. I think it starts off pretty well, but becomes a "mish-mash" later on.
But it's still an excellent and different take on vampire lore which showed us along with The Hunger, The Keep, Near Dark, Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter, etc. which all portrayed vampires who are "different than the norm" before Twilight.
Anyone thinks this movie is a unique and refreshing take on the vampire myth? i mean does anyone like the idea that the vampires in this movie are aliens of an ancient race of vampires who visited Earth before and became the origin to the vampires of lore? and wasn't it nice to see them not like the stereotype vampires of fangs and sucking blood but more on the psychic vampire thing?
Do you think these vampires are similar to the ones in Sleepwalkers, The Keep, Captain Kronos, Def By Temptation and The Dark Crystal? they all suck energy instead of blood. Well The Dark Crystal's Skeckis are vampires you know.
@Johnlindsey289 I just started to watch, but I like that idea. In fact I always dreamt of some mythical creatures coming from the outer planet. So I love the fact this movie actually did what I want!
Do you think it's refreshing to see this movie do a neat new twist on vampire lore by showing people that vampires aren't the same creature of having fangs, sucking blood, burning in sunlight, being an unholy demon and that kind of thing but being aliens instead that suck energy instead of blood and no fangs?
WOW nice music
MANOFNAR 2 weeks ago
A quaintly English space mission, rather then say 14:30GMT(or ZULU for the military types amongst you) he says 2:30pm GMT. Kind of like how Captain Mainwaring couldn't do the 24 hour clock.
Fedaykin24 2 weeks ago
"No description available."
Truer words are rarely spoken.
jeremiahjacobs 2 weeks ago
Fuck you Sir, I'm outa here!
ThePussycats3 4 weeks ago
thumbs up if you got here when watching a nes lifeforce gameplay xD
sebaXXXteacher 1 month ago
@sebaXXXteacher and hence by accident found one of the funniest low budget 80s horror movies ever to be released. I love this film along with Krull, hawk the slayer, Leviathan and of course Conan the Destroyer ... it gets me all nostalgic!
Fedaykin24 2 weeks ago
one of the worst movies EVER. Love it!
ContrastY 1 month ago
The intro i remember was different but better, more suiting for a terror movie.
sagan1976 1 month ago
the opening music is crazy awesome
NorskTorsk 1 month ago
such advanced propulsion systems, but the crummiest graphics ever ! LOL
stikowsky 3 months ago
THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT THIS SPACE GARBAGE IS HENRY MANCINI'S SCORE!!! THIS IS PURE TRASH....FOR ALL TRAILER TRASH TO ENJOY!!!
UFOSPACE1999 3 months ago
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ShortySOM 3 months ago
@UFOSPACE1999 You again? You are really going out of your way... you must truly secretly like this movie
ShortySOM 3 months ago
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antartaud 2 months ago
@UFOSPACE1999 : "There is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art." - Douglas Sirk
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@antartaud neither trash nor craziness is a quality. I fail to see how you can add two negatives and come up with a positive. Unless of course you multiply them, but if that is so, please demonstrate. Grazie mille
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I like how they give the time and date, but not the year. That's clever. I'm surprised more movies set in the future don't do that
Econniff 4 months ago
@Econniff: Good point! I had not noticed that before and I have seen Lifeforce more times than I would admit to. On a side note this film is notable for its lack of fu**ing bad language which endears it to me. Bloody, Damm or Barstewart is about as strong as it gets.
kovalitch 1 week ago
its duane barry!
Diamhea 4 months ago
good film and the sexiest vampire ever
TURBODORK2 4 months ago
80's For ever!!
5tonyvvvv 4 months ago
freaky
creativeprojects720 4 months ago
Frekin Awesome------------
mannequinwizard 4 months ago
This movie is so epic
Was so greath in 1985. I love him. Everybody talks about the fx.
Why I forgot about him?
raknai 5 months ago
who wouldnt fall for mathilda may in this film
aliens12341 5 months ago
I don't remember this intro... The one i saw was totally different, much shorter, with huge stretched lettering saying "Lifeforce" during a short time (Aliens-esque of sorts) and no voice over. Different cut or edit?
sagan1976 5 months ago
One of my ALL TIME favorites! Sci-fi mixed with horror with a great soundtrack by Henry Mancini.
crackhero 6 months ago
LOL :D at 7:21! his fingers are sticking out of his suit.
JScivlancer 7 months ago
One thing about this movie is that it's British sci-fi - even if it is ropey. So slightly annoyed by the American bits tacked on like the voiceover. How can you ruin such a classic? ;)
stevebritgimp 7 months ago
Thank you so much for posting this. I remember seeing this when it was first released on video. I recall that Space Girl's (Mathilda May) nudity was a really big deal at the time; it was considered really shocking! And whatever happened to Steve Railsback? He was cool - I remember seeing him Australian shocker 'Escape 2000' (AKA 'Turkey Shoot'). It would be great to see him make a comeback.
sholtovondouglas 7 months ago
Read the Novel.
Wilson also wrote a great novel called "The Mind Parasites" which shares some ot these plot ideas. Both derive from his fascination with H.P. Lovecraft
And of course Hooper did the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
WBEmirgen 7 months ago
Read the Novel.
Wilson also wrote a great novel called "The Mind Parasites" which shares some ot these plot ideas. Both derive from his fascination with H.P. Lovecraft
WBEmirgen 7 months ago
That title saying Lifeforce is not like that in the UK one. It comes in top and bottom clamps together and glows. The music is also really dark. Then it cuts to the shuttle shot. No American voice over either. Weird.
kezadrone 8 months ago
@kezadrone I just posted about that. In Portugal the title and the intro were like you wrote. Much better for the mood of the movie, i think...
sagan1976 5 months ago
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kezadrone 8 months ago
I like the score. Colin Wilson was aghast at what they did with his novel. I read the novel. I was aghast at it and the screenplay. They both stink. Steve Railsback is genuinely awful--quite shouting, you twit, and try acting! The first scenes at the alien spacecraft at pretty good. Too bad nobody thought to follow them up with a movie that has a good storyline and a good script.
jimtrueblue99 8 months ago
@jimtrueblue99
How about a remake? cash-in on the vampire craze that started with True Blood, Twilight, Vampire Diaries, Let The Right One In/Let Me and Thirst.
Do you think this movie is like Twilight in space? similar concept about vampires who are different than regular vampires.
Johnlindsey289 7 months ago
@Johnlindsey289 Not a remake, please. A bad classic is still a classic. Campy as this movie is, Mathilda May in robes hanging over Steve Railsback's bed is an image i'll never forget.
sagan1976 5 months ago
@sagan1976
Would you compare this movie to Twilight? in terms of having different vampires on film?
Johnlindsey289 5 months ago
@Johnlindsey289 Can't really say. Believe it or not, i've only seen like 30 min of a Twilight movie...
sagan1976 5 months ago
@Johnlindsey289 ...this is Citizen Kane compared to that piece of crap franchise. Thank God for Tobe Hooper.
invincibleironman3 5 months ago
good movie
kevinhardy 11 months ago
My favorite over the top film. But the titles are not the same as original version, so this has probably been edited to death. There was no narration either. Messed up bad.
alexalex3131 1 year ago
@alexalex3131 --- there was a 101 minute version, and a 116 minute version. What we have here (with features including the opening narration) is the 116 version.
Setebos 10 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
thanks for fuckin uploading this fuckin movie
CaseClosedJimmyConan 1 year ago
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CaseClosedJimmyConan 1 year ago
Was that a Comet or psychic energy or energy from those dead Vampires?
rehzon 1 year ago
Biggest pile of crap I've ever seen.
sallydaydream 1 year ago
@sallydaydream
would you like to see a remake?
Johnlindsey289 7 months ago
@Johnlindsey289 hell yeah but only if done right john. i'd like the thing prequel director to direct a remake
TheCeejay1975 4 months ago
It also does a good service of showing vampires that don't drink blood
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
Greatly underrated sci-fi / horror classic. Mathilda May was so smoking hot in this movie. She could drain me of my lifeforce any old time. lol.
TheAltair4 1 year ago
@TheAltair4
I agree, it's a nice take on vampire and zombie lore don't you think? did you ever watched this movie as a kid and had a crush on her? she's up there with Sil from Species, Lee the centerfold bounty hunter from Critters 2, Neytiri from Avatar, Cheetara from Thundercats, Diana from V or whatever alien hottie there is. It's nice to see a vampire movie that shows vampires aren't all the same stereotype you know.
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
@Johnlindsey289 Yeah, i saw this one on video when i was a kid and i had quite a crush on Mathilda. This is easily one of the best and most truly unique vampire films ever made.
TheAltair4 1 year ago
@TheAltair4
It's also a zombie movie too since this movie shows that vampires and zombies originated from aliens. This movie had early fast zombies on film with Nightmare City and The Stuff, i guess this influenced Dawn of the Dead 2004 and 28 Days Later. It's nice to see vampires with no fangs, not biting people etc. but sucking energy instead like in Sleepwalkers, The Dark Crystal, The Keep, Captain Kronos etc. i guess you can call this "The Keep in Space" since it is similar.
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
Underrated music.
mrgarymakin 1 year ago
so much technology, and they got it on ''tape''.
jqdsilva 1 year ago
@jqdsilva Well it was suppose to be the time Halley's Comet came by in 1986, and CD's didn't even come out until the year before.
candr 1 year ago
@candr
CDs came out in 1985, i know my 80's history.
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
@Johnlindsey289 Reee thats what I said, " come out until the year before". And since the movie was made also in 85' the tapes were still the technology of the day.
candr 1 year ago
@candr
Now we have DVDs and Blu-Rays as the technology. You glad just because the vampires are different, doesn't mean they sparkle?
Gotta admit the lead vampiress is one of the hottest aliens on film next to Diana from V, Lee the centerfold bounty hunter from Critters 2, Neytiri from Avatar or whatever.
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
@Johnlindsey289 Hey don't look at me, I grew up watching Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, these pretty boys these days can't hold a candle (or stake) next to them.
However the lady vamps do make you wish to make a deposit at the local blood bank.
(Just because I'm old doesn't mean I'm dead....yet)
candr 1 year ago
@candr :Don't you mean undead... yet?
kovalitch 1 week ago
@kovalitch LOL lord I hope not, something about the smell of putrefaction might slacken my sexual urge, but I must say the young lady is rather well long lasting even for a vamp, or in this case wouldn't she be a succubus, life instead of blood.
candr 1 week ago
lol
SuperFallenAngel9 1 year ago
I think the WRAITHs of the Stargate Atlantis were created with an eye to the Sapce Vampires of LifeForce. (I can see only one important difference: in Stargate Atlantis there is nowhere a beautiful Wraith like Mathilda May in LifeForce...)
DcsabaS 1 year ago
@DcsabaS
Sleepwalkers, Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter, The Keep, Not of this Earth etc. all have vampires that suck energy instead of blood. Now Rabid has a biological made vampire that requires no fangs but an implant under her pits, The Dark Crystal's Skecksis are vampires too but they drink essence instead of blood.
Would you compare this movie to Twilight in terms of movies with unconventional vampires?
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
It has a delightful 50's~60's style of Sci~Fi/Horror-LOVE it!
princeeverlove 1 year ago
After "Poltergeist" was a big hit, Hooper was given "carte blanche" and a huge budget to make any film he wanted to. This is the result. It's got a lot going for it: a big international cast and the special effects supervisor is the same guy who worked on "Star Wars" and the Spiderman movies. I think it starts off pretty well, but becomes a "mish-mash" later on.
frtw4428 1 year ago
@frtw4428
But it's still an excellent and different take on vampire lore which showed us along with The Hunger, The Keep, Near Dark, Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter, etc. which all portrayed vampires who are "different than the norm" before Twilight.
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
@frtw4428
Would you like to see a remake of this? i mean to cash-in on the recent vampire phase made by Twilight, True Blood and others?
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
@frtw4428 I think the director of alien joined as well. Not sure, cuz that's what the trailer said
RiseofBane 1 year ago
Anyone thinks this movie is a unique and refreshing take on the vampire myth? i mean does anyone like the idea that the vampires in this movie are aliens of an ancient race of vampires who visited Earth before and became the origin to the vampires of lore? and wasn't it nice to see them not like the stereotype vampires of fangs and sucking blood but more on the psychic vampire thing?
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
@Johnlindsey289 i totally agree with you i remember seeing this back in the day and it totally throws your perspective on the hole vampire twist.
ozzyman75 1 year ago
@Johnlindsey289 Actually Roger Corman already did this with his 50s movie Not Of This Earth about a type of space vampire.
TheForgottenFlesh 1 year ago
@TheForgottenFlesh
And how come these vampires don't sparkle or glitter?
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
@Johnlindsey289 Because it would make no sense for them to be out during the day.
TheForgottenFlesh 1 year ago
@TheForgottenFlesh Plus these vampires are not trying to be romantic.
TheForgottenFlesh 1 year ago
@TheForgottenFlesh
Do you think these vampires are similar to the ones in Sleepwalkers, The Keep, Captain Kronos, Def By Temptation and The Dark Crystal? they all suck energy instead of blood. Well The Dark Crystal's Skeckis are vampires you know.
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
@Johnlindsey289 I just started to watch, but I like that idea. In fact I always dreamt of some mythical creatures coming from the outer planet. So I love the fact this movie actually did what I want!
RiseofBane 1 year ago
@RiseofBane
If these vampires are different, how come they don't sparkle?
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
@Johnlindsey289 um... what?
RiseofBane 1 year ago
@RiseofBane
You know what i refer to right? Twilight you know.
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
@Johnlindsey289
'Cause they ain't made of crystal like those Twilight statues.
rehzon 1 year ago
@rehzon
Do you think it's refreshing to see this movie do a neat new twist on vampire lore by showing people that vampires aren't the same creature of having fangs, sucking blood, burning in sunlight, being an unholy demon and that kind of thing but being aliens instead that suck energy instead of blood and no fangs?
Johnlindsey289 1 year ago
@Johnlindsey289
Yes, I'd also like an origin and why those three were the only ones alive.
rehzon 1 year ago
Tobe Hooper. What a pleasant surprise. Cool. Onward.
nbdy10 1 year ago