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Lifeforce

Lifeforce

1985
Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller
1h 41m
A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zombies. (imdb)

Lifeforce

1985
Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller
1h 41m
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Avg Percentile 41.21% from 640 total ratings

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Rated 23 Jun 2019
67
59th
Tobe Hooper and Cannon Films took a book about space vampires and made this ridiculously overstuffed sci-fi/horror fun schlock. While the movie is pretty clunky overall, it's full of plenty of interesting, entertaining, and bizarre bits and charms that easily makes it one of the better Tobe Hooper films to watch, and it doesn't hurt that Mathilda May is so easy on the eyes either.
Rated 21 Jun 2014
40
43rd
"Hey, I'm about to rough up this woman, but it's okay because I've read her mind and despite her appearance, she's a masochist." I'm assuming this defense only works in Great Britain and, possibly, Florida.
Rated 16 Apr 2020
82
50th
Mathilda May spends most of the movie completely naked. (This should have been the movie's tagline.)
Rated 12 Jul 2017
70
53rd
So slow and dry and DAMNLOOKATDEMTITTIES
Rated 27 May 2013
51
29th
Garth Marenghi's Lifeforce
Rated 15 Jul 2014
2
15th
Unrelentingly absurd and overstuffed to the brim. It can never decide whether it wants to be an alien movie, a vampire movie, or a zombie movie, so it settles on an unsatisfying hodgepodge of all three. A+ for Patrick Stewart's hilarious bit part and Mathilda May's willingness to be constantly naked, D for just about everything else.
Rated 29 Oct 2017
80
85th
Orgiastic fable that slowly unfolds a zombie apocalipse as Mathilda May's hipnotizing girl-creature drains lives of London people. Almost every shot is pure fury designed to lure and explode -- May's body sculpted out of blood. Brutal frontality that excites and terrifies as girl-creature and her sexual and spiritual connection with Carlsen (who eventually "kills" her with a sword while making love in cathedral, being transported to her ship). Adam and Eve in Hooper's own myth of creation.
Rated 01 Nov 2015
60
40th
mathilda may suck my lifeforce any day.
Rated 15 Jul 2014
1
4th
I don't even know where to begin with this clusterfuck. I don't think I can write a real review, however I will say that Patrick Stewart's bit part where he screams, convulses on the floor, and uncontrollably spits blood out of his mouth while overdubbed with a sexy alien voice whispering the name "Carlson...Carlson...Carlson" (which, btw, is my last name) transfixed me in ways few movie scenes ever have. Note: Kojiless wrote a good review.
Rated 04 Feb 2024
59
24th
A Very British entry in the alien succubus category (see: Species, Under the Skin) with enough imaginative sequences and sfx to keep it from totally falling into doldrums (I was particularly entertained by the exploding blood effigy), not to mention one bodacious babe. Why does Captain Picard always flip out when he does a mind-meld? Dude's got issues.
Rated 23 Apr 2018
65
54th
Ok, the titties were quantity AND quality, but the lack of wiener makes them irrelevant. There is a dude monster, but he figures out clothes quickly. I want equality, y'all! The better-than-Ghostbusters optical effects (seriously, they're really good), zombie finale, and interesting premise make this one a soft recommend. Only watch the director's cut though; the shorter version somehow slows the film down and renders the already over-complicated plot incomprehensible.
Rated 28 Oct 2017
80
77th
Hooper set out to make a hammer film and accomplishes just that. Its so much like something they would have produced, in its unashamed seriousness, its prevalent britishness, the only thing missing is Christopher Lee honestly, but we get Patrick Stewart instead! The space stuff looked really cool and while I'll admit its slow as they try to figure out the alien i found a deep charm in how it was presented. The cast gives it their all and it ends in a huge fun ball of chaos.
Rated 02 Apr 2014
64
36th
Features Patrick Stewart in a wheelchair a full 15 years before X-Men. Tobe Hooper is a clairvoyant as well as a weirdo.
Rated 01 Jan 2012
57
22nd
Tons of nudity, batshit crazy, and Patrick Stewart. So you could do worse with your time.
Rated 01 Jan 2011
70
63rd
A clever sci-fi horror flick with naked space vampires attacking London and some surprisingly decent visual effects. And Patrick Stewart!
Rated 15 Mar 2010
52
22nd
Normally I would expect a movie about space vampires, especially one with this much nudity, to be campier than this film. It's played completely straight, in a very British way, even when all hell is breaking loose and zombie vampires are raging through London. It was fairly obvious that the film had been adapted from a novel, because there was way too much plot to plow through in less than two hours. Overall an odd but mildly entertaining film.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
57
47th
Memorably bizarre, but fun for that very fact. Space zombies and intergalactic parasites that want nothing but to have sex with Steve Railsback and destroy the world? Awesome. I mean, it's not a good film, but Mathilda May has some great... scenes.
Rated 23 Oct 2021
50
48th
It's not a good film but it's entertaining for the most part, from the same "everything and the kitchen sink" approach Hellraiser II fans can appreciate (also reminiscent of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace as noted by another esteemed reviewer). Lifeforce would get a higher score if there had been more batshit content like Patrick Stewart's blood 3D printing a space vampire as opposed to guys monologuing in offices.
Rated 07 Oct 2018
76
94th
This is such a special movie. Evocative, shameless, out of place, out of time, clueless about genre conventions, yet embracing them all, which explains why so many people hate it. Few movies deserve more to be called "Cult".
Rated 23 Sep 2018
55
6th
The only part that catches the attention is when the mind-reading "hero" says he NEEDS to be rough w/ a woman b/c she's a masochist. Nothing comes of it. The rest is an inherently pulpy but hokey premise: space vampires create (sort of) zombies. It's padded out w/ bad dialogue & "rules" for how the "infection" spreads that grow increasingly unclear. 1 hour everything's fine, the next half of London's on fire. The end suggests the creators are going for something profound which is laughable.
Rated 11 Oct 2017
5
81st
Lifeforce is like if Glazer got hit in the head while making Under the Skin. They're both beautiful films (I think Hoopers eye for framing and colours is almost unmatched in horror.) but the main difference is Hooper knows he's making trashy cinema (Yes, he knows. Anyone thinking this is too serious is missing Hoopers genious) He tries to jam a little too much in the film, but I respect the attempt at something so grandiose and risky after making a safe smash hit like Poltergeist.
Rated 11 Aug 2016
50
19th
Some decent ideas, not much else. The effects and sets are shoddy, considering this was made well after Alien and Star Wars et al. The lead looks like a bit of a low rent Daniel Craig, but he doesn't have a hero's haircut. He has a great reaction shot late on, however, which just about makes up for it. It's a bit dreary, and cheap-looking, and despite a couple of decent scenes, and a lot of nudity, there isn't a whole lot to capture the attention. It does have that "Cannon Films" charm, though.
Rated 01 Jan 2015
53
29th
So many ideas. So little clue of what to do with them.
Rated 03 Oct 2014
35
19th
Ideas aplenty, as a portrait of a dis-astered world that finds the drives unleashed and then consumed, until all London is ablaze. Yet ultimately the film seems to argue for an infinite and perfect love beyond the finite and perverse terrestrial realm. Aims for an uncanny, nightmarish atmosphere, but with insufficient artistry: it's almost a "serious" version of the previous year's parody, GHOSTBUSTERS (if it didn't so much resemble a parody itself), with Railsback as Moranis and May as Weaver.
Rated 02 Apr 2014
71
34th
Whatever you're expecting, it isn't anywhere close. Not a chance. The less you know about this film before watching it, the better. Go in with an open mind, and remember this was made with 80s technology. Surprisingly one of the better sci-fi movies I've seen.
Rated 13 Aug 2013
77
49th
This has one of the daffiest premises ever developed into a major motion picture: nude vampires from outer space bait people with sexual attraction and suck their life force out of their body, culminating in London being overcome by zombies and an intergalactic soul harvest. Or something. Hooper's sincere commitment to this idea, though, is BEYOND admirable. Top notch special effects for its time, a game cast, and an impressive sense of scale make an extremely entertaining cocktail of nonsense.
Rated 07 Feb 2012
57
33rd
As unconventional as literally every other Tobe Hooper film.
Rated 09 Feb 2011
60
61st
Enjoyable sci-fi nonsense, played remarkably straight. Surprisingly good SFX, you can tell the director borrowed some from his earlier work on Poltergeist. I didn't find the nudity as excessive as some, but then I'd happily watch 90 minutes of nothing but Mathilda May walking around in the buff. Starts great, though the middle drags a bit; worth sitting through for a pretty apocalyptic rampage at the end. Top marks for Mancini's musical score, a forgotten classic theme.
Rated 04 Jan 2009
78
66th
The beginning is good, and the end is pretty sweet, too bad the hour sandwiched in between is only watchable when that naked girl is running around. I'm pretty sure Tobe Hooper originally intended this to be a porno because there's an unprecedented amount of nudity.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
2
63rd
Bizarre, unfocused sci fi/horror. Adapted from a novel, "The Space Vampires," with basically no regard for film structure. Hooper thankfully makes no attempt to apologize for all the goofy insanity in the script. It's not badly shot, it's got some cool effects, and it's worth watching just for the sake of its relentless weirdness.
Rated 01 Jun 2021
49
41st
'80s B movie with space vampires and prevalent female nudity. How did this escape me when I was young? I probably would've been sold on the nudity alone. Now I just like how it's totally 80s and doesn't try to explain itself. How do the Space vampires work? Well, they're from space. Duh. It's not a virus. Not super science. Just sci-fi. From the days when scientific speculation was left to people with science educations rather than idiots. Just watch it at high speed or in the background.
Rated 24 Oct 2020
33
2nd
If you like dramatic special effects, superb acting, and suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat, this movie is not for you. If you like excessive nudity, aliens that are vampires, and lightning this movie is a must see.  
Rated 24 Oct 2018
31
4th
(DC) Oddball 80s schlock curio. Neither 'so bad it's good' or 'aggressively bad', just a dull misfire that plays safe instead of going all-in on its campy premise. The opening is fairly engaging but the rest is a non-functional mess of contrivances, unexplored ideas and abject dialogue. The budget is occasionally put to good use with some elaborate production design/staging. Despite its plodding earnestness, this is a terrible film on most metrics, but sadly fails even on its own bizarro terms.
Rated 15 Oct 2018
57
40th
Better than the novel it was based on. Book goes way further into questionable S&M & Freudian bullshit, has even more plot holes, & is dull to boot. Movie at least looks good & keeps the story moving.
Rated 20 Oct 2017
74
63rd
The colours in this are perfect!
Rated 11 Oct 2017
70
46th
Like most Tobe Hooper films, retrospective appreciation is easy to come by. The film is bonkers and it is understandable that this wasn't met with heaping praise in 1985. Looking back, however, you have to be impressed by the fun that Hooper must have had. I mean, come on, it is about naked space vampires.
Rated 30 Sep 2016
40
7th
An ungainly mix of science fiction and horror, Lifeforce plays like a Hammer film filtered through a post-Star Wars 80's blockbuster lens. It would have to be one of the strangest films ever marketed to a mass audience. After the success of Poltergeist, Hooper presumably thought he could get away with murder, and Lifeforce is stuffed to the brim with crazy half-baked ideas executed poorly. He was clearly out of his depth, but it's just nutty enough to be a curious oddity in the hall of failure.
Rated 08 Aug 2016
11
79th
there is only one description i could give this......... the most awesome a stupid movie could possibly be.
Rated 04 Dec 2015
16
20th
for the extraterrestrial boobs
Rated 02 Dec 2015
90
72nd
My favourite disaster film, in both senses of the term.
Rated 14 Jul 2013
3
0th
This movie is enjoyable simply as a science fiction film that can't be taken seriously. The premise itself is somewhat of a joke and the acting is basically stand up comedy. I love it for what it is. 1980's pulp science fiction. It's worth it simply for the laughs, though lacking cinematically.
Rated 12 May 2012
50
12th
This was certainly unique. It's a very weird film involving giant spaceships, space vampires, and a the resulting zombie plague and harvest of souls. The acting is solid enough but I didn't feel I knew where I was with this at any point. It was like a long, creepy, somewhat gory, dream.
Rated 19 Mar 2012
70
19th
My one real complaint is that some plot elements didn't make much sense in the overall context of the movie, which added to the feeling that a lot of stuff got cut. Otherwise, not bad; the puppets were some of the creepiest I have seen, the premise was neat, the cast was mostly solid. There is also a lot of nudity, which makes some sense at the very beginning, though I feel it is almost entirely unnecessary.
Rated 08 Sep 2009
82
77th
Ok, we get it: they're naked...a lot. Just move on.
Rated 26 Aug 2007
72
63rd
NAKED SPACE VAMPIRE!
Rated 23 May 2007
70
49th
Really fun, trashy film with a naked space vampire and tone-deaf acting from the future Captain Picard...What more could you want??
Rated 30 Mar 2007
80
68th
Surprisingly good. Utterly insane, and great special effects
Rated 01 Oct 2024
5
3rd
Imagine if you took the script for Alien and ran it through google translate, translating it from every language back to English. That would still be a better script than this.
Rated 08 May 2023
94
75th
An absolutely terrifying movie which projects the human lust for power and importance into an alien species of psychic vampires who intend to steal the souls of all humanity. Lots of nudity, terrifying special effects, and a consistently creepy subversion of all that is known as normal. I can see why people do not like watching this film; it is nightmare fuel, every bit as unsettling as "Apocalypse Now" or "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
Rated 27 Jan 2023
2
31st
It's bad, but there are some good ideas hidden behind the bad acting and low production values.
Rated 17 Jan 2023
75
77th
I don't know that this is very good film but I had a lot of fun with it. And to say that Mathilda May is a highly memorable space vampire would be an understatement for the ages.
Rated 02 Aug 2022
70
58th
Lifeforce is a space vampire zombie apocalypse science fiction movie with excessive nudity and Captain Picard. It's weird, interesting and gruesome. I would recommend it just because it manages to combine all these familiar elements and still be its own thing. Of course, it's a bit too long and the novelty wears off eventually but still very much worth it.
Rated 25 Jul 2022
4
63rd
These days you can't get a multi million dollars production about englishman's fears of sex that eventually leads to the destruction of London. Hooper's epic scifi is a love letter to Hammer productions, and a weird one. It's extremely sexual and weird.
Rated 09 Jun 2022
60
31st
The first time I saw this I thought it was a poorly paced, nonsensical mess that needed a good fanedit. However, on second watch, I now think it's an enjoyable, poorly paced, semi-sensical, convoluted mess that needs a good fanedit.
Rated 18 Feb 2022
50
41st
AVERAGE
Rated 29 Aug 2021
61
25th
Once the allure of Stewart in a pre-TNG campy sci-fi-horror about space-vampires & May spending her time onscreen naked wears off, Lifeforce turns out to be fairly dull. It's an uninspired retelling of Dracula set in 80's London and is as drab as it sounds. May plays her role well though she is dubbed over for her few lines. Railsback's performance is terrible. There's nothing thematically substantial about the film nor is it that fun, though the mummified corpses are decent. #ReleaseThePeenCut
Rated 02 May 2021
76
50th
Space vampires, that turn brits into vampire-zombies, with all the glory of the 80s practical effects. A very interesting premise. The execution? Well, it's a good sci-fi horror movie.
Rated 29 Jul 2020
55
35th
Tobe Hooper spending 5 hours inspecting 18 year old space girls vagina each day to make sure she looks perfect, 80's film making.
Rated 29 May 2020
55
19th
Looks nice at least.
Rated 26 Aug 2019
70
54th
Patrick Stewart... and Mathilda (yowza) May credited only as "Space Girl." Bonus: ten minutes before the end, a wheatpaste poster for Prefab Sprout! Probably promoting "Steve McQueen" at the time. Maltin proclaimed Lifeforce 'berserk,' but he could also totally see "When Love Breaks Down" working as the song over the end credits. Space Girl > Vorvon, anyway.
Rated 09 Nov 2018
20
10th
Unbelievably boring.
Rated 24 Jul 2018
69
18th
Lifeforce is an incredibly striking, extreme, and unique sci-fi horror flick that will definitely elicit strong reactions from anyone that has the pleasure to view it. The female antagonist of the film seduces her victims with overbearing sexuality and turns them into grotesque displays of destruction. I think I got the gist after the first hour, and Lifeforce did not exactly come together in the end in a satisfying manner, but instead delivered a very fractured and jarring story.
Rated 01 Feb 2017
40
2nd
A dull attempt at science fiction vampires that drags on way too long. All the performances by the leads are interchangeable and the vampiress isn't as alluring as the plot calls for.
Rated 22 Oct 2016
49
24th
Lifeforce wants to do all of the things. It succeeds, but it still isn't very satisfying. This might be the kind of film I would make if I were a director. I'm dangerously mentally ill btw.
Rated 28 May 2015
64
29th
64.000
Rated 11 Apr 2015
50
8th
Impressive in scale nonsense.
Rated 11 Nov 2012
61
43rd
The Space Vampires
Rated 01 Nov 2012
68
44th
Moves a bit slowly at times but when it turns the crazy gear on, it's a blast.
Rated 29 May 2012
92
65th
Saw this again and it was better than I remembered. Very unique (space vampires), good effects and music and intense pacing.
Rated 25 May 2012
55
23rd
Half of me wanted to watch this because it's Tobe Hooper, and half of me wanted to watch it because I heard of some gratuitous nudity. The plot was nothing spectacular, though it does sometimes try to be smarter than it should. Dialogue can get pretty prosaic too. Some of the special effects were surprisingly good, which is probably one of the movie's greatest redeeming factors.
Rated 02 Apr 2012
58
25th
58.000
Rated 16 Nov 2011
42
11th
great special effets. dumb....rest.
Rated 27 Nov 2010
56
15th
there's something that's not quite right about Steve Railsback. The way he delivers his lines? The way he looks? If it wasn't for Mathilda May this woulda gotten a 42
Rated 07 Nov 2010
90
67th
It's a bloody shame that no one ever made a cool space vampires movie like this ever again. One of the most fun and freaky apocalyptic movies ever made.
Rated 18 Oct 2010
60
72nd
The make-up effects forced my hand into giving this a higher rating than it deserves. Plus it has boooooooooobs!!!! Space booooooooooobs!!!! Sexy vampire space boooooooooobs!!!!!!
Rated 28 Sep 2010
68
36th
A completely insane script played straight in an old fashioned English way. Has to be seen for its cool effects and hot naked space vampire.
Rated 10 Sep 2010
80
76th
Simply kooky, but I enjoyed it immensely.
Rated 17 Aug 2009
10
9th
Completely nonsensical plot. Patrick Stewart is only in it for about 5 minutes, but the effects are rather cool for '85.
Rated 16 Feb 2009
70
52nd
Been very long.
Rated 15 Dec 2008
69
21st
again I don't remember much about this film except that I enjoyed it to a degree. I think I remember that it was a bit overlong and stuff could have been cut but hey it's a naked space vampire, how can that not be awesome?!
Rated 10 Sep 2008
3
14th
This movie sucked the lifeforce out of me as I was falling asleep halfway through. The nudity is a plus I guess
Rated 02 Jul 2008
84
62nd
Probably the most serious and original movie to feature hot nude women and alien vampire zombies. There are some great scenes here and there
Rated 17 Dec 2007
10
6th
Made the mistakeof seeing this on the big screen. Not one I'll do again. Auritech's review sums it all up nicely
Rated 14 Aug 2007
55
43rd
Liked this film when I was young. Not sure I'd want to see it again though.
Rated 22 Feb 2007
40
19th
Not bad Zombie film.
Rated 02 Jan 2007
73
50th
Quando vi esse filme pela primeira vez na adolescência o achei absolutamente ridículo, revendo agora dá pra ver porque eu achava isso, mas também dá pra somar tudo que sei sobre cinema hoje e ver que o trabalho de Hooper é excelente como usual, embora não concorde quando dizem que este é um de seus melhores filmes. Plus: Se tivesse o corpo da Mathilda May eu também só andaria pelada por aí. Na Darflix TV.

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