Monday again and the wife is on soap watch and I am on YouTube watching the film “Lifeforce”. It is one of the better Sci-Fi/Horror film made in Britain and you have to laugh when hear “Come in Churchill this is mission control Great Britain” knowing the UK space history.
The film opens with the crew of the space shuttle Churchill assigned to observe the Halley's Comet under the command of American Col. Tom Carlsen. No reason is really given for why there is an American leading a British mission probably to help with selling the film to a America market.
They see a strange form at the front of the comet that turns out to be a massive alien spacecraft and Carlsen and a team go to investigate. They find three humanoid life forms in caskets and they bring them to the Churchill.
Having lost contact with mission control the Churchill is found drifting orbiting around earth and another shuttle to rescue the craft they find the crew dead and the shuttle burnt and a rescue pod missing. The three alien’s caskets are still intact and we still don’t know if they are alive. One is a beautiful woman the other two are men.
Best of all, voluptuous brunette knockout Mathilda May as the dangerously seductive space girl spends the bulk of her screen time in her spectacularly sumptuous birthday suit, naked and I forgot just how beautiful she was in this film, future Sunday Crush.
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 Col. Tom Carlsen survived his escape from the Churchill he is rushed to London to explain what happened on the Churchill.
Carlsen tells an incredible story about the three aliens and he teams up with Col. Colin Caine trying to save humanity from the evil vampires from space. The alien’s space ship parks above London where it is now mayhem with people killing one another with the dead souls being sucked up to the ship.
After a race across London Carlsen finds the female vampire in a cathedral, who reveals she wants to have sex with him, lucky bastard. He attempts to resist her charms with little success she seduces him. A British SAS officer, Caine, also searching for her reaches the entrance of the cathedral only to be blocked by the surviving male vampire. He throws the lead iron broadsword into the male vampire's chest the only way to kill them. The male vampire transforms into a giant bat, and then explodes.
He grabs the sword, and then heads into the cathedral. Finding Carlsen and the female vampire intertwined having sex, Firth calls to Carlsen. He reaches up for the sword and Firth tosses it to him. Carlsen stabs the sword through both his and the female vampire's energy centres. Their souls and bodies enter the energy stream to the spaceship and we see there are four transparent "coffins", one for Carlsen? Retracting the collector, the spaceship leaves earths orbit.
While I can in no way argue that 'Lifeforce' is a science fiction classic or intellectually challenging fare, it's consistently entertaining up until the final scenes, and I highly recommend it for anyone looking for some pure entertainment. Now excuse me while I freeze frame Space Girl one more time...
The film is stacked with fine British actors such as Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Michael Gothard, and Patrick Stewart.
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