Lifeforce

Lifeforce
by Tobe Hooper

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Actor: Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Peter Firth, Steve Railsback
Director: Tobe Hooper
Brand: RAILSBACK,STEVE
Producer: Menahem Golan
Producer: Michael J. Kagan
Writer: Colin Wilson
Writer: Dan O'Bannon
Writer: Don Jakoby
Writer: Michael Armstrong
Writer: Olaf Pooley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-05-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Fox/MGM Home Video preorder: Sept 11, 2007

DVD Reviews of Lifeforce

DVD Review: horror-scifi masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is fantastic and always was. The critics slammed it because they could not handle all the nude scenes of the beautiful Mathilda May. Vampires use seduction along with brute force to trick their victims, that is just what Mathilda May dose by appearing in the nude. Her victims see her as a harmless tasty dish and not the world killing space vampire she is. Space vampires then threaten the world with the apocalypse. Lifeforce is a horror-scifi masterpiece. This movie introduced fast zombies before they became popular. It features an ultra cool British secret agent played by Peter Firth who teams up with an astronaut turned vampire hunter played by Steve Railsback. Railsback burns with intensity throughout the entire film. The music sound track and special effects are stunning. This film blew my mind.

DVD Review: Worst movie I have ever seen
Summary: 1 Stars

This movie has the distinction of being the ONLY film that I ever walked out on when I saw it in its theatrical release. I finally decided to watch it on DVD ... figuring it couldn't be THAT bad. It's even worse, the biggest piece of junk I have seen in 50 years of watching movies. This is EASILY the worst acting that I have ever seen, combined with horrendous writing. Railsback does everything but foam at the mouth, bulging his eyes and yelling out terrible lines of dialog. I imagine that Patrick Stewart is terribly, terribly embarrassed by his performance. The rest of the cast is almost as bad, and by the end of the movie I was just laughing at the really terrible 'zombie' makeup. Someone actually got paid to write and direct this junk? Truly and completely unbelievable that a movie this bad could be released.

DVD Review: Disappointing All Around
Summary: 1 Stars

Never trust the reviewers ! You've got to watch the movie for yourself. At least part of it, anyway. A number of people typed rather nice things about this flick but I feel that it came up short for me in many, many ways. It was a little too stupid for my taste even with a little bit of female-skin scattered all the way through. There were far too many professional scientists and military people doing really dumb things and getting into a world of trouble because of it. Those things happen all the time, but by today's standards this futuristic movie is way out-dated in the employee-safety department. After watching for the first 10-minutes or so I did a fast-forward search for all of the skin-scenes "once" and put the DVD back in the box it came in. There really isn't very much skin and it is well scattered. The dumb people always get eaten, though that is not exactly what was going on here. I guess we could call it a horror flick, but I wouldn't give it a lot of points for "suspense". If you haven't watched it before you don't know exactly what is going to happen and you don't know exactly when "something" is going to happen but you can sure tell "from the beginning" that "something bad is going to happen" ... it's just a matter of sitting quietly, chuckling at the naked people and waiting for somebody to die ... You don't have to wait very long ... it's usually the dumbest person in the scene. Its just one after the other. You'd think the survivors would all catch on eventually. Invite somebody over. Make popcorn. Leave the lights on.

DVD Review: movie review
Summary: 5 Stars

I was after the movie LIFEFORCE which is not available in Australia so I looked to Amazon for the purchase.With quick and prompt service by them the movie was in my hands in less than a week.It was an early movie that was worth watching and adding to my collection.Considering when this movie was made it is of good quality and acting was good.

DVD Review: It will suck the life out of you...................
Summary: 5 Stars

One of Tobe Hooper's great classic. This is a dark, creepy, and full of suspense movie. Space vampires take on London. Hot nude female is found, and brought back to earth. She soon awakes and spread the virus. Turning people into zombie like form. This is Tobe's sci-fi classic with a excellent storyline. My dvd didn't come with a 8 page booklet, but I'm still happy.

Description of Lifeforce

From the director of Poltergeist and co-writer of Alien comes a thrilling sci-fi adventure of explosive action and pulse-pounding suspense. With mind-blowing special effects by Oscar?(r) winner* John Dykstra, Lifeforce is a sci-fi extravaganza that delivers out-of-this-world excitement. A mission to investigate Halley's Comet discovers an even more fascinating phenomenon: an alien spacecraft! After a deadly confrontation, the aliens travel to Earth, where their seductive leader (Mathilda May) begins a terrifying campaign to drain the life force of everyone she encounters. Her victims, in turn, continue the cycle, and soon the entire planet is in mortal danger.And when the mission's sole survivor (Steve Railsback) sets out to destroy her, he comes face to face with the most charmingand horrifyingbeing he's ever known. Will he be able to destroy the lovely vampiress...or will he become yet another victim of her fatal charm? *1977: Visual Effects, Star Wars

Director Tobe Hooper was a hot property after he scored a popular hit with Poltergeist (thanks in part to producer Steven Spielberg), so his follow-up film was the most wildly ambitious of his career to date. Armed with a big budget and a special effects crew led by Star Wars pioneer John Dykstra, Hooper and Alien cowriter Dan O'Bannon whipped up a movie that must be seen to be believed. That's not really a compliment, since Lifeforce isn't much of a movie when all the sound and fury is over. But you've got to admit there's something crazily admirable about a movie that starts out as a science fiction adventure about a mission to explore Halley's comet, turns into an alien-invasion thriller featuring a beautiful naked woman (Mathilda May) who's a vampire from space, and escalates into an end-of-the-world disaster flick! It's got everything you could want from a horror movie--from zombies running amok in London to rotting corpses and energy bolts to signal the apocalypse to come! Holding it all together is Steve Railsback as the Halley mission survivor who holds the key to mankind's salvation--but what fun is saving the world when you could be seduced by a sexy naked space vampire? Check out Lifeforce to see how it all turns out. The widescreen DVD includes 15 minutes of footage not seen in U.S. theaters, an eight-page booklet of production notes and trivia, and the original theatrical trailer. --Jeff Shannon

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