Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Lifeforce (1985)


Starting off really strong as a Quatermass-style science fiction film, it quickly devolves into a space-vampire-zombie mashup. The film is moderately entertaining, and the scenes that work work well, but the scenes that don't work are boring or painful to watch. The male lead was the reason for most of the bad scenes. Luckily, there's a good period of time in the first half of the film where he is not present. The high point of this film is the special effects work. This film is only slightly better than the typical Golan-Globus Cannon film (who set the bar for consistently low quality 80s films). Also present is an inappropriate but by-no-means bad score from Henry Mancini. Oh yeah, the space vampire is a naked chick.

6/10

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