Lifeforce
by Tobe Hooper
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Actor: Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Peter Firth, Steve RailsbackDirector: Tobe Hooper
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
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-Video, 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
Movie Reviews of Lifeforce
Movie Review: Superb Masterpiece !
Summary: 5 Stars
Since the 70's, Tobe Hooper is one of the best directors around. He is able to manage easily all kinds of budgets, actors, scripts, etc...
This movie is one of the best I've ever seen. The score, the story, the acting, the visual effects are simply outstanding. I can't imagine this film in a shorter version or without Mancini's work.
It was meant to be a dark-sexy-sci-fi-epic since the beginning, but the producers decided to turn it into something else, destroying the material. Hopefuly this guys are not around anymore, and now this masterpiece can be appreciated in its fully original version.
What more can I say ?
Thank you again mr Hooper.
Summary 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 WarsDirector 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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