Remembered watching this as a kid and being in love with the Vampire Goddess. Recently rewatched and still blown away by the perfection that is Mathilda May.
Lifeforce's vindication comes from the fact that its loved and cherished 35 years later,and has also found a legion of new admirers born after it was made
I saw this when it came out with my dad (took me and my brothers to a lot of exploitation films with boobs). Outside of one girl I met IRL I don’t think I’ve ever scene a woman as beautiful as her. She became permanent spank material even before I knew there was such a thing.
Whats more attractive is she and other 60 / 70 woman had natural beauty, no surgery, no CGI body touch ups, yes life is not fair and few will look as good but it proves these bodies occur naturally, and should not be shamed off screen or for advertising.
Because of the rating my mother took _13 year old boy_ me to see it in the cinema, she knew I liked Dr Who and thought it was like _Quartermass and the Pit._ I spent a lot of the movie hugging my knees to my chest - but not out of fear. To say the meal at McDonald's afterwards was awkward is a understatement.
My copy is on VHS!!! I loved the movie and still pop it into my VHS player once in a while. One of my reasons for loving Lifeforce was it starred Steve Railsback who played the character Charles Manson in Helter Skelter and was delighted to see him in a couple of episodes of The X Files! I loved Lifeforce too because it was so campy, serious but comedic at times! Being a bit sexy with the two beautiful actresses also didn't hurt!
@@toddy2519 While I loved Railsback as Mason (iirc it was a made for TV thing), my favorite of his was The Stuntman with Peter O'toole. This is a film that completely subverts your expectations at every turn. It needs more love.
Fell in love with Mathilda May (aka Space Girl) when I saw this movie in the theatre. I'm surprised Minty was able to find enough footage of her with clothes on for this video.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Mathilda May was likely the cause of many jumpstarted puberties. Lifeforce being a box office bomb is one of those sad facts of life that is hard to believe. I am glad this one found an audience.
One of my all time favorites! I still watch it around Halloween every year. Needless to say, the actress who played the lead vampire had a substantial effect on 13 year old me. I realized years later that I unintentionally married someone who looks a lot like her!
I love lifeforce its one of my favorite movies and directed by my favorite horror director Tobe Hooper. Mathilda may one of my favorite women of cinema. A great 1 hr 56 minute movie.
Thank you for this review. I remember watching this on cable with my friends in the 80's. Let's just say the only special effects we were concerned with were those of the female vampire.
I loved the sci-fi/horror aspect of the movie and seeing that I was 12 at the time thought the brunette was beautiful. The 80s were such a great time for movies. Another video gem, thanks Minty!
I agree. I haven't seen the movie yet, but two things interested me about it when I was young. A fascination with vampires (space vampires intrigued me) and a crush on her that I developed after seeing her on the back of the vhs copy in stores. Sadly I was too young to buy it back then and had no allowance at the time.
Fun fact: Patrick Stewart wasn't the only Star Trek alum Steve Railsback worked with. He also appeared in an episode of the 80s Twilight Zone with John DeLancie (Q) and Brent Spiner (Data).
Matilda May was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Perfect. Besides that it was a fun /great movie. Good effects for it's time and good story telling. A fav from the past. If a critic puts a movie down, you know it's usually a good movie.
I always think this movie is older than it is. I get a strong connection/feel with this movie and 1967's Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Years to Earth.
@@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser Matilda May was in the film The Jackal with Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, J.K. Simmons, Jack Black and many others. It was her first film in America. All the rest were in Europe after Lifeforce.
This movie was playing at a small theater about a mile or so from my house. Between this movie, Return of the living dead and Fright Night, I pretty much spent my summer at this theater. It didn't hurt that the manager of said theater was my old 6th grade math tutor, so he would let me in for free almost all the time....not to mention that he would let a 14 year old in with no guardian...man, 1985 was a pretty good year for horror films!!!!
THIS IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE 80'S FILMS.I LOVED MATHILDA MAY'S PERFORMANCE.IT'S A SHAME THE FILM DON'T GET THE CREDIT IT DESERVES.HANDS DOWN ONE OF THE BEST CULT CLASSICS SINCE JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING REMAKE THAT CAME OUT OF THE 80'S WELL DONE MINTY.😎
Hard to believe this film came out 6 years after Alien, it looks like it was made earlier in my opinion. It’s also pretty amazing that Alien only cost $11m compared to the $25m of Lifeforce.
Back in the 80:s, At the age of 15 this was one of my favorite movies, and hearing you speak of mathilda may, I now remember why. Strange how I forgot her, but remembered the zombie guy running at the bars and blowing up into dust.
This movie gave me nightmares as a child. Then when I was 14 I decided to watch it, just because I wanted to know what was so scary, then...my sis and I just started to laugh at it
Call me shallow, but I mainly remember Lifeforce because of Mathilda May's body. Epic! Lol I also love the charging vampire exploding on the cell bars..I also love Linnea Quigley's dance in graveyard in Return of the Living Dead. They were onto something there😄😄
You're not shallow, or at least not for the reason you watched this movie. Whether they want to admit it or not, everyone commenting here watched this movie for the body, then watched it again for the brains. It is a cool movie, but a gorgeous naked woman is going to win everytime....and I say that as a self proclaimed prude.
I love one of the behind the scenes pictures of the film where Mathilda May is standing completely naked hands on hips while her co-star is chatting with her😄
What's insane is I used to get pissed when I saw that Superman was on TV and it wasn't part 4, my favorite one only to grow up and find out it was despised by critics and everyone and their mothers along with Masters of the Universe which I still love and waiting for the sequel to this day. Also, the one damn time I caught Over the Top on TV, I freakin loved it! Never saw it again. I'm sure ill hate it lol!
I remember seeing scenes back when I was a kid and it freaked the hell out of me. Years later I tried to rediscover that film for a while because I didn't know the name of it.
I have seen it! A couple times at the Cinema, and of course, on DVD. Without a doubt, one of my favourites. And Matilda May certainly grabbed screen presence… I'd like to see the full movie. I certainly hope that it is released sometime. BluRay edition maybe?
I know this movie only from my brothers old Fangora magazines. I used to have nightmares after even movies like The Toxic Avenger until my brother (against my parents best judgement) gave me a small stack of Fangoras and I never had a problem after that. I was young and I felt like I really knew something my friends didn’t know yet. Freakin awesome!
In 1985 I saw both cocoon and Lifeforce in the theater. Since then I’ve gone on to watch Cocoon one more time on video but I’ve seen life force a dozen or more times. Life force is so underrated!
I’m surprised that Over The Top was a flop. It came out when I was in 2nd grade and I remember my whole class saw it. We were all arm wrestling each other the week after it came out.
A clip from Lifeforce turns up in Tobe Hooper's next flick Invaders from Mars the following year when the boy turns on the TV and tunes into a channel showing the movie. You should do The Keep, a similar film from the same period which is also overlooked.
I agree! I love "The Keep"!!!!!! The Keep was an amazing movie even though the "monster" in its "smoke" form was a bit cheesy. I always felt the professor's daughter, ( Alberta Watson ) was so beautiful and the plot, as well as the photography, was top notch. The music by Tangerine Dream was awesome!!!!
If you're a fan of this flick, make sure to check out Brandon Tenold's 2-part video review of it if you don't already follow him. Which you 100% should.
If you are reading the comments first and have not seen the movie - go watch it first! It is so much better to go into the movie cold. I do have to say, it is good that now more people will see the movie.
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Huh? Have you seen her? She went on the usual actress crash diet a couple years after Lifeforce and lost ALL her wonderful baby fat and her super wonderful breasts. Now she looks like a typical older skinny French actress. Meh. Check her out in The Jackal with Richard Gere and Bruce Willis. She plays a Basque terrorist. Cute but nothing like The Space Girl.
In addition to John Dykstra's visual effects, respect also goes to Nick Maley's makeup and creature effects. Watching Lifeforce as a preteen was a good news/bad news trade-off; good news was I got to see Mathilda May, the bad news was those dried-out, living-dead corpses gave me the creeps.
My favorite 🍿🎥🤓🤗💕 I was 13 I remember when it came out I didn't see it in the theater saw it on VHS I immediately was scared and fascinated loved that it was filmed in England made it even more regal the cast perfect Matilda was definitely luminous Beauty and sexuality this movie and Excalibur my top two favorite movies of all time
Classic?? The films constant rewrites, contradicts it self, the pacing is all out, the first victim explodes, then all the other victims become zombies??
@@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser No, they explode when they don't get "fed" for the first time as we see with the surgeon. Space Girl infects other victims in London and they then feed off other people in a chain reaction. I love the pacing, the last 3rd just ramps things up brilliantly, .
I was in my thirties when I first saw this and man it scared the piss out of me. I sat through and enjoyed The Thing with no problem and several other movies but this one got to me. To this day I can make through the space scenes and some of the earth stuff but once the life sucking begins I'm out.
I came here expecting a review of a classic NES game that involved spaceships flying around and fighting random enemies. Instead, I got a review of some movie I'd never heard of before...
This movie was AWESOME!! Naked chicks, space vampires, special effects...my brother and I loved when this came on (cable tv, we had it on navy base in the 1978-1986)
While this film wasn't great, when I caught it accidentally on TV one night it was good enough to draw me in. I've only seen it the once, but it has stuck in my mind.
Badly underrated and always worth a repeat viewing - if only to admire MS May's talents - with more than a few memorable scenes, the crazy blood image in the helicopter is a standout. Remember I found this as a £1 bargain bin video back in the day, believe or not with a copy of Bladerunner for the same price
Thanks for this 10 things episode. Love Lifeforce, actually only watched it for the 1st time 5 years ago, even though I'm an 80's kid who is also a movie buff. Somehow this just slipped past me, but so glad to watch it when I did. Makes me appreciate the 80's even more.
Seen this movie about a dozen times since it's release. I feel I enjoy it more every time I watch it. I would recommend watching it 3 times before final judgement. I love this flick.
Thanks for doing this one Minty, I'd asked for this in the comments only a few months ago. I really need to see the longer version now as I haven't seen this film for a long time but remember it well as when I was a young teenager I recollect a big article about it in one of the UK Sunday paper supplements at the time making me want to see it.
I think this movie is amazing. It's such an odd mix of tones, styles, and genres - Hammer-style gothic, Quatermassian cosmic horror, zombie apocalypticism, 1950's conspiracy, and the very current (for the times) one-upmanship in horrific practical effects, interlaced with an exceedingly DePalmalike sexual paranoia and even some Spielbergian wonder. I can absolutely see how audiences and critics absolutely rejected this weird mutant stew of a movie, but to me it is all of a piece, full of propulsive energy and pervasive dread and an overpowering horniness just as naked as Mathilda May.
While it is true that Mick Jagger's brother, Chris Jagger, played one of the male space vampires, the actor you showed in your video was actually Bill Malin, who played the other male space vampire.
I'm always so happy when you do movie I had totally forgot about or rarely never saw. I remember seeing this as a little kid just once. So I'm definitely going to watch it again!
Several years later there was an interview with Mathilda May in the LA Times where she claimed she doesn't do nudity in films and the clueless reporter had no idea she had some of the longest nude scenes in the history of mainstream movies. In Japan the film had to be censored because they don't allow pubic hair to be seen on screen.
I saw that movie only once and i remember ony three things about it. Number three was that i had real trouble to find out who the protagonist was, lol.
My bf and me love this movie, we even have it as a dvd and best of all about three years ago we watched in a cinema in Barcelona that plays lots of classics.
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Remembered watching this as a kid and being in love with the Vampire Goddess. Recently rewatched and still blown away by the perfection that is Mathilda May.
I have a hankering to watch it again. I might have the DVD - can't remember, as I have 'a few' I hope I can find it streaming somewhere.
and she has the nicest titties ever too!!!!
Lifeforce's vindication comes from the fact that its loved and cherished 35 years later,and has also found a legion of new admirers born after it was made
Mathilda May: one of the most beautiful women to ever appear on screen. Go see the movie if you haven’t.
I saw this when it came out with my dad (took me and my brothers to a lot of exploitation films with boobs). Outside of one girl I met IRL I don’t think I’ve ever scene a woman as beautiful as her. She became permanent spank material even before I knew there was such a thing.
Jane March is another
Seen it a few times... totally agree!! Very erotic and perfect for the scenes!!!
She's definitely a beauty. When I was a boy and first saw clips of the movie featuring Mz.May , my heart skipped a beat.
Whats more attractive is she and other 60 / 70 woman had natural beauty, no surgery, no CGI body touch ups, yes life is not fair and few will look as good but it proves these bodies occur naturally, and should not be shamed off screen or for advertising.
Because of the rating my mother took _13 year old boy_ me to see it in the cinema, she knew I liked Dr Who and thought it was like _Quartermass and the Pit._
I spent a lot of the movie hugging my knees to my chest - but not out of fear.
To say the meal at McDonald's afterwards was awkward is a understatement.
That’s funny.
This movie is massively underrated. What a gem, got it on blu ray!!
My copy is on VHS!!!
I loved the movie and still pop it into my VHS player once in a while. One of my reasons for loving Lifeforce was it starred Steve Railsback who played the character Charles Manson in Helter Skelter and was delighted to see him in a couple of episodes of The X Files!
I loved Lifeforce too because it was so campy, serious but comedic at times! Being a bit sexy with the two beautiful actresses also didn't hurt!
Nice!
So did I . I am going to buy another one. Maybe two.
@@toddy2519 While I loved Railsback as Mason (iirc it was a made for TV thing), my favorite of his was The Stuntman with Peter O'toole. This is a film that completely subverts your expectations at every turn. It needs more love.
Always loved this movie.
Fell in love with Mathilda May (aka Space Girl) when I saw this movie in the theatre. I'm surprised Minty was able to find enough footage of her with clothes on for this video.
Matilda May = insta-click
Well underrated. I remember this in 1985. Little did we realise Patrick Stewart would become the new Captain of the Enterprise just two years later.
Make it so!
I have a sneaking suspicion that Mathilda May was likely the cause of many jumpstarted puberties. Lifeforce being a box office bomb is one of those sad facts of life that is hard to believe. I am glad this one found an audience.
Lifeforce does stick out in the memory more than Cocoon.
I think seeing Wilfid Brimmly shirtless in a pool was nightmare fuel. Ha!
@@joeldumont7874 🤣🤣🤣🤣
One of my all time favorites! I still watch it around Halloween every year. Needless to say, the actress who played the lead vampire had a substantial effect on 13 year old me. I realized years later that I unintentionally married someone who looks a lot like her!
There are two things I love about this movie......... the visual effects and the wild premise.
😂😂
And the hot naked space vampire girl has nothing whatsoever to do with it. lol 😂
And it has nothing with Mathilda May’s ...two things?
@@ninaaniston1717 My one thing responds to Ms. May's two things.
To think that this film was Patrick Stewart's first on-screen kiss. Brave man.
I heard in a hard to find interview it was his first altogether kiss
Was this before he played Gurni in Dune?
@@martinez1701a no. This came out one year after Dune.
Patrick in 1981 Excalibur, his voice does stand out in that movie.
I'd have to rewatch it, but I'm sure he'd have had a kiss in "I, Claudius"...
One of my favorites from the 1980's. It's just a fun piece of sci-fi/horror, like Starship Troopers. Both are over the top and fun to watch.
50 years old, and still have that teen crush on Mathilda May!
At 54 yrs, so do i. Damn she was gorgeous.
@@donmclemore1396 Hehe, talk about a blast from the past. I'm 53 now LOL
So do I.
“Simultaneously at the same time” another Mintyism at play. Love ya!
Reminds me of an old Robin Williams bit. : )
"In the dictionary under 'redundant', it says, 'see redundant'."
"Well, you can say that again."
Or a lot of things said by classic baseball coach Yogi Berra.
@@rcschmidt668 Can you pick up a 2L milk on your way home from work, thanks
Actually a tautology.
I love lifeforce its one of my favorite movies and directed by my favorite horror director Tobe Hooper. Mathilda may one of my favorite women of cinema. A great 1 hr 56 minute movie.
Lifeforce is one of the most insane and most British sci-fi movies of all time. Plus the awesome music by Henry Mancini. Every second is gold.
Have you tried Quatermass and the Pit?
Thank you for this review. I remember watching this on cable with my friends in the 80's. Let's just say the only special effects we were concerned with were those of the female vampire.
Same! IIRC, there's only one scene in the entire movie where she's wearing any clothes at all.
I saw this one in theaters. Went in boy; came out a man. 🤓
Ahahahahahahahaha
I know how you feel. My sister took me to see Robocop when I was ten.
Agreed. Those seven minutes Minty mentioned of Mathilda May definitely were life changing.
Mathilda May ...my first crush. If the internet had been a 'thing' back then, my parent's search history would've been riddled with her.
Lol, brilliant!
I loved the sci-fi/horror aspect of the movie and seeing that I was 12 at the time thought the brunette was beautiful. The 80s were such a great time for movies. Another video gem, thanks Minty!
You don't have to be 12 to think Matilda May is beautiful...She is.❤
@@griff3683 agreed!
Mathilda May was perfection incarnate.
Absofreakinglutely.
Amen
I agree. I haven't seen the movie yet, but two things interested me about it when I was young. A fascination with vampires (space vampires intrigued me) and a crush on her that I developed after seeing her on the back of the vhs copy in stores. Sadly I was too young to buy it back then and had no allowance at the time.
Everything about her is PER-FEC-TION
@@jeffreyherda9684 its a great movie..I watched it again a few weeks ago..its on either Netflix or Prime..one of the 2
Matilda May is the definition of the term “smoke show”
Fun fact: Patrick Stewart wasn't the only Star Trek alum Steve Railsback worked with. He also appeared in an episode of the 80s Twilight Zone with John DeLancie (Q) and Brent Spiner (Data).
I liked him as Duane Barry in the X-Files.
@@georgejones3526 One of the best characters in the X-Files by far.
@@vandamme6379 another "abducted by aliens" theme.. talk about type cast
Matilda May was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Perfect. Besides that it was a fun /great movie. Good effects for it's time and good story telling. A fav from the past. If a critic puts a movie down, you know it's usually a good movie.
And still is today! I just looked at some photos of her. She's still hauntingly lovely.
I always think this movie is older than it is. I get a strong connection/feel with this movie and 1967's Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Years to Earth.
No love for the incredibly weird set of posters? No, the aliens don't resemble humans, no real person could ever look as INCREDIBLE as Mathilda May!
She was a scene stealer ... a nod to the Horror Vampire ladies of the 70s. Good call on casting by Tobe Hooper.
The only film she made.
@@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser Untrue, check her out on IMDB.
@@MrLorenzovanmatterho I did!
@@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser Matilda May was in the film The Jackal with Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, J.K. Simmons, Jack Black and many others. It was her first film in America. All the rest were in Europe after Lifeforce.
This movie was playing at a small theater about a mile or so from my house. Between this movie, Return of the living dead and Fright Night, I pretty much spent my summer at this theater. It didn't hurt that the manager of said theater was my old 6th grade math tutor, so he would let me in for free almost all the time....not to mention that he would let a 14 year old in with no guardian...man, 1985 was a pretty good year for horror films!!!!
The 1980's were a good "film-decade"....: and music decade. 😉
This movie was required viewing on cable for any guy I knew back in the 80's
I have the steelbook Bluray edition of this. Fantastic cover and both versions of the movie. Mathilda in HD is a stunner for sure.
Very true.
@@BarryHart-xo1oy Now it's Mathilda in 4K. Even more stunning.
THIS IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE 80'S FILMS.I LOVED MATHILDA MAY'S PERFORMANCE.IT'S A SHAME THE FILM DON'T GET THE CREDIT IT DESERVES.HANDS DOWN ONE OF THE BEST CULT CLASSICS SINCE JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING REMAKE THAT CAME OUT OF THE 80'S WELL DONE MINTY.😎
The plot gets sooo lost in the middle but eventually has an awesome end. GREAT special effects!!!!
Hard to believe this film came out 6 years after Alien, it looks like it was made earlier in my opinion.
It’s also pretty amazing that Alien only cost $11m compared to the $25m of Lifeforce.
As a teen I wore out all the good parts of the VHS copy of this movie. Mathilda May... Wow
Back in the 80:s, At the age of 15 this was one of my favorite movies, and hearing you speak of mathilda may, I now remember why. Strange how I forgot her, but remembered the zombie guy running at the bars and blowing up into dust.
I liked the Director's Cut, as it has the most badass opening with the music by Henry Mancini!
I showed up to say the same thing!
His score is just fabulous!
where an we see the directors cut?
@@pa.encema2821 On The Blu Ray Collectors Edition from The Shout Factory
I love lending out this movie, with out giving too much away.
Such a gem and very underrated / unknown film.
This movie gave me nightmares as a child. Then when I was 14 I decided to watch it, just because I wanted to know what was so scary, then...my sis and I just started to laugh at it
Call me shallow, but I mainly remember Lifeforce because of Mathilda May's body. Epic! Lol I also love the charging vampire exploding on the cell bars..I also love Linnea Quigley's dance in graveyard in Return of the Living Dead. They were onto something there😄😄
You're not shallow, or at least not for the reason you watched this movie. Whether they want to admit it or not, everyone commenting here watched this movie for the body, then watched it again for the brains. It is a cool movie, but a gorgeous naked woman is going to win everytime....and I say that as a self proclaimed prude.
I didn't watch it for "The Body"...! Lol...
It doesn't do anything for me.
I love one of the behind the scenes pictures of the film where Mathilda May is standing completely naked hands on hips while her co-star is chatting with her😄
Minty: "I won't beat around the bush." really? LOL
Nope. Minty is going to dive right in.
What's insane is I used to get pissed when I saw that Superman was on TV and it wasn't part 4, my favorite one only to grow up and find out it was despised by critics and everyone and their mothers along with Masters of the Universe which I still love and waiting for the sequel to this day. Also, the one damn time I caught Over the Top on TV, I freakin loved it! Never saw it again. I'm sure ill hate it lol!
Loved this film! Re-rented many, many times to see Mathilda May...God almighty she was beautiful!!! And what a body!
One of my favorite films! Thanks, Minty! This started my infatuation with Miss Mathilda (for obvious reasons).
A box office flop? Perhaps, but this was a big hit on cable television during the "golden age"
Thanks Minty, another great review.
I own Lifeforce, but no Cocoon... Yeah, Lifeforce is great! And Patric Stewarts first onscreen kiss 🤗
I remember seeing scenes back when I was a kid and it freaked the hell out of me. Years later I tried to rediscover that film for a while because I didn't know the name of it.
I have seen it! A couple times at the Cinema, and of course, on DVD. Without a doubt, one of my favourites.
And Matilda May certainly grabbed screen presence…
I'd like to see the full movie. I certainly hope that it is released sometime. BluRay edition maybe?
She truly was a rare vision to behold, both in form and visage.
I know this movie only from my brothers old Fangora magazines. I used to have nightmares after even movies like The Toxic Avenger until my brother (against my parents best judgement) gave me a small stack of Fangoras and I never had a problem after that. I was young and I felt like I really knew something my friends didn’t know yet. Freakin awesome!
One of my favourite films. The soundtrack is awesome.
In 1985 I saw both cocoon and Lifeforce in the theater. Since then I’ve gone on to watch Cocoon one more time on video but I’ve seen life force a dozen or more times. Life force is so underrated!
Do you watch it in minute long segments late at night?
@@oatlord Strangely enough, I saw both on the same day. I forgot about Cocoon until you mentioned it.
I’m surprised that Over The Top was a flop. It came out when I was in 2nd grade and I remember my whole class saw it. We were all arm wrestling each other the week after it came out.
*for a moment i thought you were going to say your 2ed grade class saw this movie...strange school if that was the case*
@@scottmantooth8785 He is talking about "Over The Top" , which was "kiddie-friendly" ! Not "LifeForce"...lol
@@emmaofdragons2720 *thanks for the clarification...makes a lot more sense now*
I was 17 when this movie was released and it's been a guilty pleasure ever since.
Okay, I'll say it. I watched it to see Mathilda May walk around. Why did I never meet a gal like her in high school?
For starters, I'm guessing you didn't have many or any girls in high school willing to walk around like that.😉
"Life Force" definitely had something that "Alien" couldn't match.
A clip from Lifeforce turns up in Tobe Hooper's next flick Invaders from Mars the following year when the boy turns on the TV and tunes into a channel showing the movie.
You should do The Keep, a similar film from the same period which is also overlooked.
the keep with Scott Glenn right? loved the book version...
I agree! I love "The Keep"!!!!!! The Keep was an amazing movie even though the "monster" in its "smoke" form was a bit cheesy. I always felt the professor's daughter, ( Alberta Watson ) was so beautiful and the plot, as well as the photography, was top notch.
The music by Tangerine Dream was awesome!!!!
I'm so glad you reviewed Lifeforce. I saw parts of it as a kid and could find the show. Now I'm going watch it!! Thanks again!
If you're a fan of this flick, make sure to check out Brandon Tenold's 2-part video review of it if you don't already follow him. Which you 100% should.
Thanks for the info!👌🏻✌🏻👍🏻......
If you are reading the comments first and have not seen the movie - go watch it first! It is so much better to go into the movie cold. I do have to say, it is good that now more people will see the movie.
I think Matilda May is a real vampire. She hasn't changed much.
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Helluva actress!!!! popped major wood ... Railsback so over the top , too!!
no doubt she's sucked the life force out of quite a few men..lol
Huh? Have you seen her? She went on the usual actress crash diet a couple years after Lifeforce and lost ALL her wonderful baby fat and her super wonderful breasts. Now she looks like a typical older skinny French actress. Meh. Check her out in The Jackal with Richard Gere and Bruce Willis. She plays a Basque terrorist. Cute but nothing like The Space Girl.
Wonderful MInty, great job on an under-appreciated film.
In addition to John Dykstra's visual effects, respect also goes to Nick Maley's makeup and creature effects. Watching Lifeforce as a preteen was a good news/bad news trade-off; good news was I got to see Mathilda May, the bad news was those dried-out, living-dead corpses gave me the creeps.
My favorite 🍿🎥🤓🤗💕 I was 13 I remember when it came out I didn't see it in the theater saw it on VHS I immediately was scared and fascinated loved that it was filmed in England made it even more regal the cast perfect Matilda was definitely luminous Beauty and sexuality this movie and Excalibur my top two favorite movies of all time
Life force is one of my favorite movies.
Mathilda May is a pristine Goddess in this film. Unbelievable.
Haven't seen it in years,but it's a classic.
@Digger Graveyardz You REALLY do!
It's a great watch
Classic??
The films constant rewrites, contradicts it self, the pacing is all out, the first victim explodes, then all the other victims become zombies??
@@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser No, they explode when they don't get "fed" for the first time as we see with the surgeon. Space Girl infects other victims in London and they then feed off other people in a chain reaction. I love the pacing, the last 3rd just ramps things up brilliantly, .
@@MrLorenzovanmatterho still a terrible film film for all the wrong reasons.
One of my favourite cheesy guilty pleasures in sci-fi movies, this and Quatermass and the Pit.
I was in my thirties when I first saw this and man it scared the piss out of me. I sat through and enjoyed The Thing with no problem and several other movies but this one got to me. To this day I can make through the space scenes and some of the earth stuff but once the life sucking begins I'm out.
This was the most fantastic sci fi movie when it was released. It still holds up today
I came here expecting a review of a classic NES game that involved spaceships flying around and fighting random enemies. Instead, I got a review of some movie I'd never heard of before...
One of my all time faves !! The BluRay looks great and the ship design is the best of the 80’s and 90’s. Not topped until the Event Horizon model.
Great as usual! Will be watching this one this weekend... Thanx Buddy!
This has been one of my favorite sci- fi movies of all time.
This movie is on Amazon Prime for free for Prime members. I agree that it is one of my favorite cult movies.
Thanks for the heads up. 👍😁
This movie was AWESOME!! Naked chicks, space vampires, special effects...my brother and I loved when this came on (cable tv, we had it on navy base in the 1978-1986)
While this film wasn't great, when I caught it accidentally on TV one night it was good enough to draw me in. I've only seen it the once, but it has stuck in my mind.
There are 2 + 1 incredible things I know about this movie, and that’s good enough for me!
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0:58 with the whole world at "stake" vampire pun 🤣 come on Minty it was right there lol love your channel u have good taste in videos 👍
Always loved this movie , it’s so underrated
It was the first large scale actual living crowd zombie/vampire attack I'd ever seen in the subway sequence. Also fantastic music score.
Life force gave me nightmares when I was a kid and traumatized me for ever 😂
The actors all seem "perfect" for their roles.
Badly underrated and always worth a repeat viewing - if only to admire MS May's talents - with more than a few memorable scenes, the crazy blood image in the helicopter is a standout.
Remember I found this as a £1 bargain bin video back in the day, believe or not with a copy of Bladerunner for the same price
One of my all time favorite vampire movies!!
Thanks for this 10 things episode. Love Lifeforce, actually only watched it for the 1st time 5 years ago, even though I'm an 80's kid who is also a movie buff. Somehow this just slipped past me, but so glad to watch it when I did. Makes me appreciate the 80's even more.
Seen this movie about a dozen times since it's release. I feel I enjoy it more every time I watch it. I would recommend watching it 3 times before final judgement. I love this flick.
Such a spectacular, fun film.
Great Atmosphere, music, visuals, suspense and action!
And of course...
Mathilda May.
A must, for the collection.
What a great way to wake up!!! Thank you! -Pittsburgh, Pa USA
"It's life Jim but not as we know it"
So happy that you are covering this movie.
Thanks for doing this one Minty, I'd asked for this in the comments only a few months ago. I really need to see the longer version now as I haven't seen this film for a long time but remember it well as when I was a young teenager I recollect a big article about it in one of the UK Sunday paper supplements at the time making me want to see it.
I just rewatched this and I still love it. So underated when it came out, I'm glad you decided to cover it.
My favorite space vampire movie! And the only space vampire movie that comes to mind...
Best thing about it. There aren't any more.
1965's Planet of the Vampires
@@Axolotl_Mischief did you have to Google that?
I think this movie is amazing. It's such an odd mix of tones, styles, and genres - Hammer-style gothic, Quatermassian cosmic horror, zombie apocalypticism, 1950's conspiracy, and the very current (for the times) one-upmanship in horrific practical effects, interlaced with an exceedingly DePalmalike sexual paranoia and even some Spielbergian wonder. I can absolutely see how audiences and critics absolutely rejected this weird mutant stew of a movie, but to me it is all of a piece, full of propulsive energy and pervasive dread and an overpowering horniness just as naked as Mathilda May.
I'm 51 nowadays and Got to see this in theaters way back then.
While it is true that Mick Jagger's brother, Chris Jagger, played one of the male space vampires, the actor you showed in your video was actually Bill Malin, who played the other male space vampire.
I'm always so happy when you do movie I had totally forgot about or rarely never saw. I remember seeing this as a little kid just once. So I'm definitely going to watch it again!
Several years later there was an interview with Mathilda May in the LA Times where she claimed she doesn't do nudity in films and the clueless reporter had no idea she had some of the longest nude scenes in the history of mainstream movies. In Japan the film had to be censored because they don't allow pubic hair to be seen on screen.
I saw that movie only once and i remember ony three things about it.
Number three was that i had real trouble to find out who the protagonist was, lol.
My bf and me love this movie, we even have it as a dvd and best of all about three years ago we watched in a cinema in Barcelona that plays lots of classics.
You'd think that Hooper, with his amazing horror experience, would have known to "Stay away from the moors!" Earie! I'll let myself out.