Lifeforce [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray]

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:	05/24/2022
UPC:	0826663223712
Original Release:	1985
Rating:	R
Source:	Shout Factory
Language:	English
Format:	Blu-ray
Sales rank:	1,290

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Steve Railsback	Commander Tom Carlsen
Peter Firth	Inspector Caine,Second Boy in Park
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	Lamson
John Keegan	Guard
Paul Cooper	Guard
Christopher Jagger	Vampire
Bill Malin	Vampire
Jerome Willis	Pathologist
Derek Benfield	Physician
John Woodnutt	Metallurgist
James Forbes-Robertson	Minister,Minister
Peter Porteous	Prime Minister
Katharine Schofield	Prime Minister's Secretary
Owen Holder	Scientist
Jamie Roberts	Rawlings
Patrick Connor	Fatherly Guard
Sydney Kean	Brash Guard
Chris Sullivan	Kelly
Milton Cadman	Soldier
Rupert Baker	Soldier
David Beckett	Soldier
Gary Hildreth	Police Surgeon
Edward Evans	Doctor
Nicholas Donnelly	Police Inspector
Carl Rigg	Radar Technician
Elizabeth Morton	Radar Technician
Geoffrey Frederick	Communications Officer
Richard Oldfield	Mission Leader
Christopher Barr	Trajectory Officer
Burnell Tucker	NASA Man
Thom Booker	NASA Officer
Michael Fitzpatrick	NASA Officer
Richard Sharpe	Rescue Ship Crewman
John Golightly	Colonel
William Lindsay	Colonel's Aide
Sidney Livingstone	Ned Price
Ken Parry	Sykes
John Edmunds	BBC Commentator
Haydn Wood	Helicopter Pilot
Russell Sommers	Navigation Officer
Peter Lovstrom	First Boy in Park
David English	First Crewperson
Emma Jacobs	Second Crewperson
Michael John Paliotti	Third Crewperson
Brian Carroll	Fourth Crewperson
Chris Jagger	Vampire
John Woodnut	Metallurgist
Michael Kamen	Composer
Henry Mancini	Composer
James Guthrie	Composer

Technical Credits

Don Jakoby

Dan O'Bannon

Peter Diamond	Stunts
John Dykstra	Special Effects
Yoram Globus	Producer
Menahem Golan	Producer
John Gant	Special Effects
Tobe Hooper	Director
Don Jakoby	Screenwriter
John Grant	Special Effects
Tip Tipping	Stunts
Dan O'Bannon	Screenwriter
Nick Maley	Special Effects

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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