Lifeforce

Director: Tobe Hooper Tobe Hooper

Overview

Director Tobe Hooper adapts Colin Wilson's edgy novel The Space Vampires in this in this horror/sci-fi epic with a cult following. The story concerns a joint British-American space probe of Hailey's Comet. Inside the comet, the astronauts, headed by Carlsen (Steve Railsback), find a spaceship that contains the dead bodies of several aliens, along with the naked bodies of three human-like creatures in suspended animation. They bring the aliens aboard the ship for examination, but the specimens are sloppily guarded and soon the trio spread contagion among the population of the ship. Returning to earth, the beautiful space vampire (Mathilda May) escapes into London and begins to feed of the bodies of the unwary Britons, turning the city into a zombie-populated wasteland. It is now left for Carlsen to stop the vampire invaders.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/14/2018
UPC:	0826663189216
Original Release:	1985
Rating:	R
Source:	Shout Factory
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Steve Railsback	Commander Tom Carlsen
Peter Firth	Inspector Caine
Frank Finlay	Inspector Fallada
Mathilda May	Space Girl
Patrick Stewart	Dr. Armstrong
Michael Gothard	Bukovsky
Nicholas Ball	Derebridge
Aubrey Morris	Sir Percy
Nancy Paul	Ellen
John Hallam	Lawson
John Forbes-Robertson	Minister
Sydney Kean	Brash Guard
John Keegan	Guard
Chris Jagger	Vampire
Bill Malin	Vampire
Jerome Willis	Pathologist
Derek Benfield	Physician
John Woodnut	Metallurgist
Peter Porteous	Prime Minister
Katherine Schofield	Prime Minister's Secretary
Owen Holder	1st Scientist
Jamie Roberts	Rawlings
Russell Sommers	Navigation Officer
Patrick Connor	Fatherly Guard
Paul Cooper	Guard
Chris Sullivan	Kelly
Milton Cadman	Soldier
Rupert Baker	Soldier
Gary Hildreth	Police Surgeon
Edward Evans	Doctor
Nicholas Donnelly	Police Inspector
Peter Lovstrom	Boy in Park
Julian Firth	Boy in Park
Carl Rigg	Radar Technician
Elizabeth Morton	Radar Technician
Geoffrey Frederick	Communications Officer
David English	Crew
Emma Jacobs	Crew
Michael John Paliotti	Crew
Brian Carroll	Crew
Richard Oldfield	Mission Leader
Christopher Barr	Trajectory Officer
Burnell Tucker	N.A.S.A. Man
Thom Booker	1st N.A.S.A. Officer
Michael Fitzpatrick	2nd N.A.S.A. Officer
Richard Sharpe	Rescue Ship Crewman
John Golightly	Colonel
William Lindsay	Colonel's Aide
David Beckett	Soldier
Ken Parry	Sykes
John Edmunds	BBC Commentator
Haydn Wood	Helicopter Pilot
Sydney Livingstone	Ned Price

Technical Credits

Don Jakoby

Dan O'Bannon

Tobe Hooper	Director
Robert Cartwright	Art Director
Peter Diamond	Stunts
John Dykstra	Special Effects
Sandra Exelby	Makeup
Denise Exshaw	Set Decoration/Design
Yoram Globus	Producer
Menahem Golan	Producer
John Grant	Special Effects
John Graysmark	Production Designer
John Grover	Editor
James Guthrie	Score Composer
Carin Hooper	Costumes/Costume Designer
Alan Hume	Cinematographer
Don Jakoby	Screenwriter
Michael J. Kagan	Associate Producer
Michael Kamen	Score Composer
Terry Knight	Art Director
Nick Maley	Special Effects
Henry Mancini	Score Composer
Dickie Mills	Makeup
Michael Morris	Makeup
Dan O'Bannon	Screenwriter
Tony Reading	Art Director
Tip Tipping	Stunts
Alan Tomkins	Art Director
Simon Wakefield	Set Decoration/Design

Editorial Reviews

A weird homage to British science fiction from Quatermass and Dr. Who through Alien, the Tobe Hooper-directed Lifeforce may be one of the strangest films ever to receive a wide theatrical release. Equating its strangeness with artistic merit, however, is more of a stretch. Playing like a lot of silly movies folded into one, it features a nude vampire (Mathilda May), space exploration, and a plague of zombies. Played with a straight face, it never appears to recognize its own absurdity, which should be no difficulty for viewers. Never all that successful, as horror or as satire, it's also never dull, making ideal, undemanding late-night viewing fodder.

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