From the director of Poltergeist and Salem's Lot, comes one of the best cheesefests ever. Plot: Astronauts aboard the shuttle Churchill, who are studying Haley's Comet discover a massive alien ship spanning over 150 miles long concealed in the comet's tail. The astronauts board the ship and find thousands of dead giant bat like creatu...res and three nude alien humans(two men and one woman) in suspended animation. They take all three humans and one of the bat creatures back with them. A month later the Churchill arrives back at Earth with nearly all of it's crew dead and one person missing. A man comes to examine the girl but she wakes up and begins draining the "lifeforce" out of him. He later turns into a zombie who also needs "lifeforce" to survive. The alien girl and men go on a rampage across London feeding off peoples' lifeforce and turning them into zombies. It's up to the sole survivor of the Churchill to stop the aliens and save the planet. The movie itself is extremely cheesy. Co-written by Dan O'Bannon who is famous for writing the original screenplay and being one of the creative forces of Alien. He also wrote Total Recall. I found the overall plot to be good but the film's pacing is awful. It starts out explaining just about everything in the first 20 mins and after that it just sort of drags on. The acting is so bad it's funny. The dialogue is hilarious. Patrick Stewart has a role in this and I couldn't help laughing at his line; "He's in solitary confinement. He's been....naughty." Mathilda May who plays the space vampire girl is extremely beautiful but it seems like the casting director found the hottest girl he could find and asked; Do you want to be in a movie? But the catch is you have to be completely naked throughout the movie." If you are the ultimate but good cheesefest, this is it.
Review of Lifeforce
