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Watch: Lifeforce 1985 123movies, Full Movie Online – The space shuttle Churchill is assigned to observe Halley’s Comet under the command of Colonel Tom Carlsen. They see a strange form attached to the comet and Carlsen goes with a team to investigate. They find three humanoid life forms in caskets and they bring them to the Churchill. However, Earth loses contact with the shuttle and the Space Research Center sends another spacecraft to search the Churchill. They find the crew dead and the shuttle burnt and one rescue pod missing. They bring the humanoids to Earth and soon Dr. Hans Fallada and his team discover that the Space Girl is a sort of vampire and drains the life force from people, transforming them into zombies. When the authorities find that Colonel Tom Carlsen has survived, they summon him to explain what happened in the Churchill. Carlsen tells an incredible story about the three aliens and he teams up with Colonel Colin Caine trying to save mankind from the evil vampires from space..
Plot: A space shuttle mission investigating Halley’s Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London’s population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a mysterious but beautiful alien woman who appears responsible.
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Ratings:

	6.1/10 Votes: 26,476
	55% | RottenTomatoes
	50/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 457 Popularity: 15.524 | TMDB

Reviews:

Great sci-fi flick. The story is very good, and the production and the actors did a great job. I don’t think this movie is outdated, just more campy and enjoyable. A must see sci-fi classic.

Lifeforce is the best Dracula from Space movie I’ve ever seen. I haven’t seen that many, mind you, and Vampirella and Dracula 3000 sure as shit didn’t set that particular bar especially high; on the other hand, Lifeforce is better-looking than many sci-fi/fantasy films released as recently as this the year of Our Lord 2022, vis-a-vis practical, mechanical special effects versus CGI and motion capture visual effects (it doesn’t hurt Lifeforce either that there’s generous full-frontal female nudity courtesy of French uber-babe Mathilda May).

The script is not without its share of silliness (consider this piece of dialogue: “Sir, we’ve found a naked girl in Hyde park. The body is in an indescribable condition” — but you just kind of described it, didn’t you? I mean, “a naked girl” is a reasonably specific description), but the movie’s weak spot lies in a deliberate choice: comparing the plot’s events to the “vampires of legend,” which the film’s quasi-Van Helsing eventually concludes “came from creatures such as these. Perhaps even from these very creatures.”

Somehow it never occurs to Dr. Fallada (Frank Finlay) to wonder, if “these very creatures” needed an astronaut to bring them to Earth in his space shuttle, how the “vampires of legend” arrived in our planet the first time around. How the good doctor correctly guessed that a “leaded metal shaft, penetrating not through the heart, but through the energy center two inches below the heart [how he knows so much about the creatures’ anatomy is anybody’s guess, considering the things human form is but a disguise]. Not steel, but leaded iron” (he calls this the “old way,” but wouldn’t that be a wooden stake through the heart?) would prove fatal to the aliens is another secret I’m afraid he takes to his grave. There is also some mumbo-jumbo about how “The process of conversion
releases a life energy” that “can be collected … The male vampire’s collecting life energy. But he has to send it through her to get it up to the collector” and some other such nonsense.

The filmmakers should have treated the word “vampire” as anathema, and avoid any and all direct references to it. Take for instance the aforementioned space shuttle, which anyone familiar with Bram Stoker will identify as an allusion to the Demeter; this is a clever little touch, but it won’t impede any viewer’s enjoyment of the film if the parallelism escapes them.

My point is that you don’t have to be the boy who cried vampire when the thought is already in pretty much everybody’s mind. There are shades of other works here (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Night of the Living Dead, Solaris, and even Ghostbusters), but the movie doesn’t feel the need to overtly draw attention to them — so why the hard-on for vampires? Other than that, Lifeforce is a satisfying minor diversion for fans of old-school horror.

A force to be reckoned with
The Cannon Group has always seemed like the movie studio equivalent of the engine that tried and tried to climb that mountain, but unlike it’s children’s book counterpart, never seemed to reach the top.

“Lifeforce” is the exception.

In fact as space-vampire-movies go, this is the best, which of course on the subject of space-vampires… isn’t saying much. But “Lifeforce” really is a memorable ride.

From the director of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Poltergeist” comes this massive apocalyptic science-fiction and horror epic. It’s “2001” and “Dawn of the Dead” all rolled into one juicy little egg-roll of a movie, spiced with the beautiful naked body of Mathilda May (if she’s smart she would start mathildamay.com and sell signed “Lifeforce”-pictures, and make a fortune of perverts like me). It’s scripted by none other than Dan O’Bannon (Alien, Return of the Living Dead, Total Recall) and the cast is great. Frank Finlay looks like Peter Cushing’s second cousin just escaped from a Hammer Horror movie, and it’s always nice to see Michael Gothard (God rest his soul) who played creepy Emile Locque in “For Your Eyes Only”. Steve Railsback is good as always, and Peter Firth perfectly fits the part of the SAS-colonel who must save the day (he always reminds me of the 1980’s ‘Doctor Who’ Colin Baker 🙂

The 25 million dollar budget looks like 50 million dollars, the f/x are first-rate but best of all: a rousing score by Henry Mancini! His “Lifeforce”-theme should deservedly rank with the all-time great sci-fi-themes. It’s almost hard to fathom that the composer of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “The Pink Panther”-movies, so known for his romantic music, should actually be able to produce such a bombastic score. It’s like he kept it all in for 30 years and then suddenly decided to blow it all off on the soundtrack of this movie, and nobody needs to clean up after him – it’s that brilliant!

When history is to be counted, this is one of the movies the Cannon Group will be remembered for, together with “Bloodsport”, “52 Pick-Up”, “Hanoi Hilton” and “Missing in Action” (come on, Chuck ruled as Braddock). And it only took 60 or so movies to create five good ones 🙂

crazy mix of campy vampire sci-fi
The space shuttle HMS Churchill rendezvous with Halley’s Comet under the command of Col. Tom Carlsen. They find an object hidden in the head of the comet. Within, they find dead bodies that look like giant bats and 3 perfectly preserved humanoid bodies. 30 days later, the shuttle returns to earth without any communication. They sent up Columbia to investigate, find the crew dead after a fire and the three aliens in crystal cases. The girl alien sucks out the lifeforce from people, turns them into zombies, influences minds and then escapes. Dr. Hans Fallada follows the space vampire girl. An escape pod with Col. Carlsen is found in Texas. Col. Colin Caine teams up with Carlsen to track down the alien girl.

This is a good campy sci-fi B-movie. It has lots of flaws but they are all excusable with a hot naked woman. A lead character needs to stay on the screen but he is away for much of the first half. It would also be helpful to have a compelling actor as the lead. It’s a crazy mix of vampires, mind-control and sci-fi. There are a lot of cheesy special effects. Some of it is really effective like the dried up body sucking out somebody’s lifeforce. London in chaos is apocalyptic fun.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min), 1 hr 56 min (116 min) (international)
Budget 25000000
Revenue 11603545
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Horror, Mystery
Director Tobe Hooper
Writer Colin Wilson, Dan O’Bannon, Don Jakoby
Actors Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth
Country United Kingdom
Awards 1 win & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints), Dolby (35 mm prints), Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.20 : 1 (70 mm prints), 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 BL3, Cooke Xtal Express Lenses, Arriflex 35-III, Cooke Xtal Express Lenses
Laboratory Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK
Film Length 2,722 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 125T 5247, 400T 5294)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2022 remaster), Dolby Vision, J-D-C Scope (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman 5384), 70 mm (blow-up) (Eastman 5384)