Tobe Hooper made his masterpiece, although not consensual, in his first work "The Texas chain saw massacre" in 1974, he became popular and recognized in the great success "Poltergheist" in 1982, made in partnership with Steven Spielberg (producer and screenwriter). In between, he directed, among others, the successful TV series "Salem's Lot" in 1979, based on the homonymous work by Stephen King.
The reason why he was invited to make this "Lifeforce". In both a femme fatale fights telepathically in a web of sexual seduction with a male character, in both evil is weaved in the web of carnal desire in which man is the most weak.
With a screenplay by Don O'Bannon (writer of the masterpiece "Alien") and Don Jakoby based on the book "The Space Vampires" by Colin Wilson.
It starts with a space science fiction environment where cosmonauts discover an unknown ship with three human-looking beings or I would even say supra-human two "Adonis" and a "goddess" of blinding beauty.
Obviously they can't resist taking her, oh and the other two as well, to planet Earth. All this in the first minutes of the film without suspense and tension as in "Alien".
The flesh is weak and misogyny was not only allowed but current in the 80s. (Nowadays it is inconceivable with the dictatorship of political correctness, but anyway, let's get back to the subject.) On Earth, the stunning beauty and her muchachos try to destroy it all by vampirizing not the blood, but the life force of humans. Causing chaos in London.
Perhaps because it has a big budget, Tobe Hooper bets on too many fronts making a schizophrenic and confusing film between science fiction, vampires and hordes of zombies!?
Resulting in a mediocre film that sank in the boxoffice and was devastated by critics, it was the beginning of Tobe's decline. But as they say that time heals everything, today it is seen with some nostalgia and an absurd comic pleasure.
And the truth is that horror movie fans (me!) were always waiting with great curiosity and enthusiasm for his next film, until the moment of his death. (in 2017, RIP)
The reason why he was invited to make this "Lifeforce". In both a femme fatale fights telepathically in a web of sexual seduction with a male character, in both evil is weaved in the web of carnal desire in which man is the most weak.
With a screenplay by Don O'Bannon (writer of the masterpiece "Alien") and Don Jakoby based on the book "The Space Vampires" by Colin Wilson.
It starts with a space science fiction environment where cosmonauts discover an unknown ship with three human-looking beings or I would even say supra-human two "Adonis" and a "goddess" of blinding beauty.
Obviously they can't resist taking her, oh and the other two as well, to planet Earth. All this in the first minutes of the film without suspense and tension as in "Alien".
The flesh is weak and misogyny was not only allowed but current in the 80s. (Nowadays it is inconceivable with the dictatorship of political correctness, but anyway, let's get back to the subject.) On Earth, the stunning beauty and her muchachos try to destroy it all by vampirizing not the blood, but the life force of humans. Causing chaos in London.
Perhaps because it has a big budget, Tobe Hooper bets on too many fronts making a schizophrenic and confusing film between science fiction, vampires and hordes of zombies!?
Resulting in a mediocre film that sank in the boxoffice and was devastated by critics, it was the beginning of Tobe's decline. But as they say that time heals everything, today it is seen with some nostalgia and an absurd comic pleasure.
And the truth is that horror movie fans (me!) were always waiting with great curiosity and enthusiasm for his next film, until the moment of his death. (in 2017, RIP)