Salubfoto
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Aneesa Wardle
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Blake Rivera
If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
roddekker
Favorite Movie Quote: "She's totally dangerous!" Though out of whack and even daffy at times - "Lifeforce" was an insanely wild, over-the-top SyFy tale that owed plenty to "Dawn Of The Dead" and "The Thing"."Lifeforce" starts off as an outer space saga, then becomes a crazy vampire movie, then turns into an end-of-the-world story."Lifeforce" is the sort of movie that's clearly ridiculous to the extreme, but, at the same time, it's so bizarre that it's actually fascinating - (Yes. People disintegrate)The city of London finds itself madly over-run by soul-sucking zombies and the one controlling it all is a gorgeous, naked, space vampiress.With a promising screenplay written by "Alien's" Dan O'Bannon, "Lifeforce" certainly could've been a whole lot better, but, unfortunately, it suffered considerably under the inconsistent direction of "Texas Chainsaw's" Tobe Hooper.
MisterWhiplash
The blu-ray of Lifeforce wasn't some great revelation of a lost artifact from the 80's that should be held up high as any 'great art'. Hell, the studio it's from - Cannon films, that good old purveyor of quality like Superman 4 - gives an indication that it'll be a cheesy, no-frills sci-fi. But the film has (surprisingly) some classy sci-fi direction via Tobe Hooper, for titillation (and just weirdness at times, the two mix together) Mathilda May's constant nudity, a thrilling and dark Henry Mancini score, and some bizarre and fun writing from Dan OBannon (and some boring exposition from the other writer).Really, if only the acting, aside from Patrick Stewart, wasn't so bad, and it really is sometimes hard to take - who is this lead actor guy, why hadn't I seen him aside from this, oh, right, he sucks - then it could be possibly wonderful instead of simply a curious cult object. I may have neglected to mention the story, here it is: hot alien lady comes to Earth, stirs s*** up. There.But it was better than I expected, and to the filmmaker's credit and to the intentions of one of the writers I'd suspect, it's a B movie in the proudest sense of the word.
jessegehrig
This movie is based off a book, that book's title is Space Tits. I have not yet read Space Tits, but part of me really wants to. Space Tits is based off of Dracula- so if a movie is based off of a book which itself is based off of another book, wouldn't the movie ultimately be based off of the book that the book is based off of? It means Lifeforce is just Dracula but by another name. Just like remarkable nudity in this movie, top shelf, I remember watching this movie for the first time and thinking to myself, hot damn that's some tittie! I feel as though that previous statement provides adequate summery of the movie's plot. People struggle, the struggles have meaning, the end.
TheMarwood
The fact that Lifeforce actually exists and not in some bizarre alternate reality is something of an achievement in itself, but that it was a big budget prestige pic for Cannon Films just speaks volumes on why they went bust. Clearly nobody was in their right mind when this was greenlit or filmed and the results are gloriously loopy. Line readings usually range from wooden to unhinged, sometimes within seconds of each other - and dialogue is not so much terrible, as it is head scratchingly insane. Mathilda May spends most of the running time with an aversion to clothing and may never be topped as the best naked space vampire girl. The last act of London going up in flames is off the charts ridiculous and amazingly entertaining. If there's anything you can fault Lifeforce for, it's not for being predictable.
