Lifeforce

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R,1hr 40min

Genres:

Sci-Fi,Horror

Released:

June 21, 1985

Distributor:

TriStar Pictures

Starring:

Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay ... More

Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis

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	Keith Phipps, AMG Review 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 ... Read Review

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	Steve Railsback Commander Tom Carlsen Peter Firth Inspector Caine Frank Finlay Inspector Fallada Mathilda May Space Girl

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