- Director
- Tobe Hooper
- Year
- 1985
- Country
- UK, Australia
- Runtime
- 116 min
Also released as
- Životní síla
- Fuerza siniestra
- L'étoile du mal
- Жива сила
- Ödesdiger kontakt
- Lifeforce - L'étoile du mal
- Gymni apeili
- As Forças do Universo
- Forta vietii
- Životna sila
- Lifeforce: Fuerza vital
- Yasam savasi - Uzay vampirleri
- Vampires from Outer Space
- Space Intruders
- 뱀파이어
- Lifeforce: Space Vampires
- スペースバンパイア
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Lifeforce
Tobe Hooper's space-vampire epic, adapted from Colin Wilson, and it is completely insane in the best way.
A shuttle finds three perfectly preserved humanoids in a craft in the tail of Halley's Comet. Brought back to London, they turn out to be energy vampires, and one of them, a naked woman who never blinks, triggers a plague that turns the city into a horde of desiccated husks.
Hooper made it with Cannon money as his big-budget swing after Poltergeist, and it is gloriously unhinged: a John Dykstra effects extravaganza, a Henry Mancini score, and a plot that lurches from hard science fiction to zombie apocalypse to full London-in-flames spectacle.
Mathilda May spends most of the film nude and unblinking, which is exactly as strange as it sounds.
It flopped enormously and is now a cult favourite precisely for its excess.
The restored 116-minute cut is the one to see.
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Checked 10 Aug 2026
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