A joint British/American space mission on board the shuttle Churchill are exploring Halley's Comet. They find a huge (150 miles long) alien craft that is possibly organic and of course think it's smart to send people inside to check it out. They find a bunch of dried up space bat corpses and three beautiful naked humanoids encased in crystal boxes. The mission commander Carlsen decides to bring the box set and one desiccated space bat back to the Churchill. When the shuttle Columbia rendezvouses with the Churchill, there has been a fire: all the crew are dead, the escape pod is missing but the box set and the dead space bat are okay. So the crew brings them back to London. As it turns out, the three naked humanoids are not dead. They wake up and go on a rampage (if one can call disappearing from the screen for long periods of time a "rampage") wherein the gorgeous Space Girl (who has really great boobs) sucks the lifeforce out of all the humans she meets. In short time, London has devolved into a madhouse as the space vampires' victims become zombies (?). Carlsen - who escaped the Churchill in the escape pod, did I forget to mention that? - and another dude chase the space vampires across London, including to a mental hospital where PATRICK STEWART is the head doctor. There is a lot of fuzzy space/horror "science," vampiric victims exploding into dust, a corpse made entirely out of blood pulled from PATRICK STEWART's head and an ambiguous ending with a lot of blue lightning.
Lifeforce is much too long (PATRICK STEWART doesn't even show up until 1 hour 5 minutes and 22 seconds in (I wrote it down)) and is completely nutso. But the animatronic desiccated victim effects are outstanding - I love that stuff. And, really, if you can't embrace a 1980s movie about naked space vampires, you should probably just go watch Beaches again, because that's probably more your thing.
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