Lifeforce

Lifeforce (1985)

  • 60% of critics liked it
    (15 reviews)

  • 41% of users liked it
    (9,015 ratings)

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… More

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Jun 21, 1985 Limited
TriStar Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Richard T. Jameson, Parallax View

    Lifeforce is a pretty curious specimen in its own right. Its sci-fi/horror concept is epic in scale and metaphysical reach, but the casting is catchpenny...

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    Far from the nonsensical, failed-blockbuster of its maudit reputation, the movie is a ravishing renewal of the genre hollowed out by Star Wars

  • Nick Schager, The Screengrab

    Frequently outlandish and far from profound, it's nonetheless a box-office bomb that, like its horror-maestro director, deserved quite a bit better.

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    Superior sci-fi horror.

  • Jon Niccum, Lawrence Journal-World

    Special effects (and plot) run amok

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Melvin W


    Space Girl: The web of destiny carries your blood and soul back to the genesis of my lifeform.  "In a blink of an eye, the terror begins." Lifeforce is the first Tobe Hooper film I haven't liked. Granted I have only seen four of  his movies. But I loved the other… More

  • Jeff "


    Lifeforce is one of the weakest of Tobe Hooper's films. This had the potential of being a good film, but it failed on so many levels. I thought that the film was a massive disappointment and I think it's one Hooper's worst. What really sucks about the film is that Dan… More

  • ♥Robyn


    A British and American joint shuttle mission (aboard the shuttle Churchill) is up above the earths atmosphere doing research on the comet when they notice something weird clinging onto the front of it and they get a radar readout and see that it is a craft of some sort, the crew is… More

  • AJ V


    This is a very interesting movie it's a sci-fi vampire movie. It's unique and very interesting to watch, if you like sci-fi movies and vampire movies you should check this one out.

  • Randy T


    Poor Mathilda May. The only thing more sparse than her dialog was her wardrobe.

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