lifeforce starts in outer space where the hms churchill tracks haley comet and it equipment detects a 150 mile long alien spaceship in the head of the comet and unable to contact earth because of interference colonel tom carlsen (steve railsback) decides this is the one and only chance to investigate it. going outside in spacesuits carlsen and some of his crew enter the mysterious spaceship and find the remains of a bat like race of creatures and three perfect looking humanoids and two men (chris jagger and bill malin) and a beautiful woman (mathilda may) all of whom they take aboard the churchill. thirty days later and back on earth the churchill is detected on radar and a rescue mission is sent up only to discover the spaceship is burnt out and all the crew supposedly dead. the rescue team do find the three humanoid aliens though and take them back to earth where in a space research center in london they come back to life and start to literally suck the lifeforce out of human victims who then in turn need to do the same to stop themselves turning into dust and things look grim as the epidemic spreads throughout london. this english production was produced by the notorious menahem golan and yoram globus who during the early 80 were responsible for lots of cheap low budget action flicks under their production company cannon usually starring chuck norris and they wanted to move into the big time and signed director tobe hooper up on a three film deal (which were this lifeforce and the invaders from mars (1986) remake and the texas chainsaw massacre 2 (1986) a sequel to hooper own classic) all of which flopped and basically bankrupt both golan and globus and cannon was no more. anyway and despite being a commercial flop at the box office i have to say i think lifeforce is a highly enjoyable and if rather silly sci fi horror. when originally released into theatres back in 85 lifefore was cut down to 101 minutes by golan and globus but over the past few years the longer 116 minute cut has all but replaced it on dvd and vhs and laserdisc and tv although apparently hooper original cut of the film ran for 128 minutes so there even more footage out there somewhere. i will be basing my comments on the longer 116 minute cut and the script by dan obannon and don jakoby and uncredited rewrites by michael armstrong and olaf pooley was based on the 1976 novel the space vampires by colin wilson and has many extraordinary ideas and it scope is truly ambitious and one felt that it ends up being a bit of a mess but a hell of an entertaining one. it moves along like a rocket and at heart there a really interesting story here although the film gets itself into a tangle. there are also some hilarious moments in lifeforce and the scene when the security guard tries to convince the naked female vampire to surrender by offering her a half eaten biscuit is a true camp classic and the horribly overwrought hypnosis scenes including the one where railsback ends up kissing patrick stewart and many and many more besides. i do not know and call me weird but i just thought lifeforce was tremendous fun and highly entertaining in just about every way and from silly character  and odd dialogue and strange ideas that never quite come together and some terrific visuals lifeforce certainly isn not a film that will bore you. director hooper had just about more money here to play around with than he ever has (double what he had for poltergeist (1982) even) and he uses every bit of it to bring this spectacular film to the big screen and john dykstra the guy responsible for star wars (1977) and star trek represent the motion picture (1979) and more recently spider man (2002) was brought in to handle the visual effects and generally speaking they look fabulous. the sequences set in outer space with spaceships in particular look great and there also some really good visual effects back on earth including the destruction of london as 100 of blue souls fly around everywhere. there some nudity but not much gore and there are some withered corpses and a few gunshot wounds and the skin on someones hand peels off and blood spurts from someones eyes and nose and ears and there a severed arm as well as some zombies. the special make up effects are also generally very good. i do not say lifeforce is scary as such as it more of a sci fi film than horror and i loved the way hooper shoots the outer space sequences as he keeps rotating his camera to effectively capture the feeling of weightlessness and that there is no olid floor as it were. with a supposed budget of about $25 and 000 and 000 it made less than half that in it theatrical run and hasn not set the world alight on video or dvd either which is a shame because although it a bit of a mess it very enjoyable to watch. shot on location in england. well filmed in 2 represent35 represent1 widescreen and the 4 represent3 cropped image is horrible and cuts huge chunks of information from both sides of the screen and this is most noticeable during the opening scenes set in outer space where sometimes it hard to make out what going on and the sense of the vastness of space and the alien spaceship is lost. the acting is ok in a very silly film and patrick stewart replaced sir john gielgud and nancy paul replaced olivia hussey and frank finlay replaced klaus kinski while anthony hopkins turned the role of caine down. lifeforce is a bizarre film and no two ways about it really and anyone looking for something simple and straight forward should look elsewhere. anyone looking for something a bit different in the sci fi genre than give lifeforce a go as it one of those so bad it good films with some impressive effects and it isn not your average run of the mill film by any means. 
lifeforce starts in outer space where the hms churchill tracks haley comet and it equipment detects a 150 mile long alien spaceship in the head of the comet and unable to contact earth because of interference colonel tom carlsen (steve railsback) decides this is the one and only chance to investigate it. going outside in spacesuits carlsen and some of his crew enter the mysterious spaceship and find the remains of a bat like race of creatures and three perfect looking humanoids and two men (chris jagger and bill malin) and a beautiful woman (mathilda may) all of whom they take aboard the churchill. thirty days later and back on earth the churchill is detected on radar and a rescue mission is sent up only to discover the spaceship is burnt out and all the crew supposedly dead. the rescue team do find the three humanoid aliens though and take them back to earth where in a space research center in london they come back to life and start to literally suck the lifeforce out of human victims who then in turn need to do the same to stop themselves turning into dust and things look grim as the epidemic spreads throughout london. this english production was produced by the notorious menahem golan and yoram globus who during the early 80 were responsible for lots of cheap low budget action flicks under their production company cannon usually starring chuck norris and they wanted to move into the big time and signed director tobe hooper up on a three film deal (which were this lifeforce and the invaders from mars (1986) remake and the texas chainsaw massacre 2 (1986) a sequel to hooper own classic) all of which flopped and basically bankrupt both golan and globus and cannon was no more. anyway and despite being a commercial flop at the box office i have to say i think lifeforce is a highly enjoyable and if rather silly sci fi horror. when originally released into theatres back in 85 lifefore was cut down to 101 minutes by golan and globus but over the past few years the longer 116 minute cut has all but replaced it on dvd and vhs and laserdisc and tv although apparently hooper original cut of the film ran for 128 minutes so there even more footage out there somewhere. i will be basing my comments on the longer 116 minute cut and the script by dan obannon and don jakoby and uncredited rewrites by michael armstrong and olaf pooley was based on the 1976 novel the space vampires by colin wilson and has many extraordinary ideas and it scope is truly ambitious and one felt that it ends up being a bit of a mess but a hell of an entertaining one. it moves along like a rocket and at heart there a really interesting story here although the film gets itself into a tangle. there are also some hilarious moments in lifeforce and the scene when the security guard tries to convince the naked female vampire to surrender by offering her a half eaten biscuit is a true camp classic and the horribly overwrought hypnosis scenes including the one where railsback ends up kissing patrick stewart and many and many more besides. i do not know and call me weird but i just thought lifeforce was tremendous fun and highly entertaining in just about every way and from silly character  and odd dialogue and strange ideas that never quite come together and some terrific visuals lifeforce certainly isn not a film that will bore you. director hooper had just about more money here to play around with than he ever has (double what he had for poltergeist (1982) even) and he uses every bit of it to bring this spectacular film to the big screen and john dykstra the guy responsible for star wars (1977) and star trek represent the motion picture (1979) and more recently spider man (2002) was brought in to handle the visual effects and generally speaking they look fabulous. the sequences set in outer space with spaceships in particular look great and there also some really good visual effects back on earth including the destruction of london as 100 of blue souls fly around everywhere. there some nudity but not much gore and there are some withered corpses and a few gunshot wounds and the skin on someones hand peels off and blood spurts from someones eyes and nose and ears and there a severed arm as well as some zombies. the special make up effects are also generally very good. i do not say lifeforce is scary as such as it more of a sci fi film than horror and i loved the way hooper shoots the outer space sequences as he keeps rotating his camera to effectively capture the feeling of weightlessness and that there is no olid floor as it were. with a supposed budget of about $25 and 000 and 000 it made less than half that in it theatrical run and hasn not set the world alight on video or dvd either which is a shame because although it a bit of a mess it very enjoyable to watch. shot on location in england. well filmed in 2 represent35 represent1 widescreen and the 4 represent3 cropped image is horrible and cuts huge chunks of information from both sides of the screen and this is most noticeable during the opening scenes set in outer space where sometimes it hard to make out what going on and the sense of the vastness of space and the alien spaceship is lost. the acting is ok in a very silly film and patrick stewart replaced sir john gielgud and nancy paul replaced olivia hussey and frank finlay replaced klaus kinski while anthony hopkins turned the role of caine down. lifeforce is a bizarre film and no two ways about it really and anyone looking for something simple and straight forward should look elsewhere. anyone looking for something a bit different in the sci fi genre than give lifeforce a go as it one of those so bad it good films with some impressive effects and it isn not your average run of the mill film by any means. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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