Day three of thirty-one days of horror!
Maybe if this went by its original title, THE SPACE VAMPIRES, viewers
would have had some idea of what a bugnuts movie it is, but then again
probably not. Based closely on a novel (!) which I have actually read,
this is Tobe TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE Hooper’s Canon-financed follow-up
to POLTERGEIST, a movie he allegedly didn’t get to direct. That and
cocaine abuse goes a long way towards explaining why this messterpiece
feels like the unhinged product of a frustrated artist; the
plot is nonsense and characters come out of nowhere, do things for no
real reason and know things they absolutely shouldn’t know. But holding
it all together is an almost entirely nude performance by French model
Mathilda May, who is utterly convincing as a beautiful space being who
you’d gladly allow to feed on your life essence. Featuring a strong cast
of British thespians and a sweaty, lust-crazed Steve Railsback,
LIFEFORCE takes you places you never knew you wanted to go and does it
with a gleefully sleazy yet somehow classy insanity. If you love ALIEN,
you’ll…um… just watch it, OK?
