Lifeforce (1985)

Directed by

Tobe Hooper

Genre

drama film, horror film, adventure film, monster film, thriller film, science fiction film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

R

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 736 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A space shuttle crew finds alien humanoids in suspended animation on a derelict spaceship. When they bring them back to Earth, the humanoids awaken and cause chaos as they drain people's life force.

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What happens

Lifeforce is a 1985 British science fiction horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, adapted by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby, and starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, and Mathilda May. Based on Colin Wilson's 1976 novel The Space Vampires, the film portrays the events that unfold when a trio of humanoids in a state of suspended animation are brought to Earth after being discovered in the hold of an alien space ship by the crew of a European Space Shuttle. Two cuts of Lifeforce were released: a 116-minute "international cut", and a 101-minute cut ordered by American distributor Tri-Star Pictures for the film's theatrical release in the United States. Lifeforce received mixed reviews and was a box office failure, but has since become a cult film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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