There are movies that are instant hits.
These are the Jaws, Star Wars, ET. Jurrasic Park.
Widely loved on release and massive box office hits.
Then there are the Cult classics. Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, Buckaroo Banzai and many many others.
Massive failures at the box office.
Critically slated.
Box Office bombs!!
But throughout the years gained a cult following. New movie lovers being introduced to them via runs on tv, and in some instances if we are lucky companies such as Arrow Video, Shout Factory, 88 Films and others love these movies as much as we do and release them on dvd and Blu Ray so you can watch them time and again in Hi Def.
And then sometimes if we are really really lucky. we get to experience them on the big screen.
This happened recently to a movie i have a real soft spot for.
A cult classic.
A movie about a failed mission to Halley's Comet which brings about an apocalyptic event that could be the end of humanity.
Thats right. the movie i am talking about is Tobe Hooper's 1985 Cult Classic........
LIFEFORCE.
Back in 1985, i was only 12 so i was way too young to go to the cinema and see this scifi masterpiece, it wasnt until it was released on video that i finally saw it and what can i say i actually enjoyed it (I have been told i will pretty much sit through anything!).
It has a bit of everything. Action. Drama. Romance (sort of) and of course the creme de la creme of British Stage and Screen.
Staring in this little gem of a movie we have Steve Railsback (The Stuntman, Barb Wire), Peter Firth (Spooks, The Hunt for Red October), Frank Finlay (The Three Musketeers. The Four Musketeers), Patrick Stewart (Star Trek the Next Generation) to name but a few, and the standout performance is Mathilda May (The Jackal) for reasons that are obvious in the movie (add to the fact it must have been bloody cold and taken a lot of bottle to perform as she did!)
Anyway back to what i was saying......
Its not often you get to see a classic movie back on the big screen, but luckily thanks to a local Horror festival including a Tobe Hooper Retrospective, I finally got to see that classic movie on the big screen about 33 years after it was first released.
Anyway a bit about the movie......
Lifeforce tells the story of the joint ESA/Nasa mission to Halley's Comet which finds a 150mile long derelict spaceship hidden. And as this is a "scifi horror" movie, that's right the crew decide to investigate.
Inside they find multiple bodies of bat like creatures and 3 human figures. 2 men and 1 woman.
They take one of the batlike bodies and the the 3 human bodies back to the ship.
Well as you can guess things dont go to plan and the earth ends up in peril, and it's up to Col. Tom Carlsen, the sole survivor of the Halley's Comet expedition and SAS Col. Colin Caine to track down
the space vampires after they get loose in London, and put an end to the plague they unleash on the capital.
Overacting goes into overload (I'm looking at you Patrick Stewart) and some scenes are unintentionally funny, but it is a not bad scifi action adventure flick that will be a guilty pleasure for some.
I would recommend looking out for this little gem of a movie, you won't be disappointed.
I'd give this 2 thumbs up.
As a side note, for those that havent seen this little gem, i would recommend watching this first and then watch the recent Tom Cruise Mummy movie and have a drinking game every time you see a similarity.
You will most likely end up drunk!!!
Enjoy :)
These are the Jaws, Star Wars, ET. Jurrasic Park.
Widely loved on release and massive box office hits.
Then there are the Cult classics. Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, Buckaroo Banzai and many many others.
Massive failures at the box office.
Critically slated.
Box Office bombs!!
But throughout the years gained a cult following. New movie lovers being introduced to them via runs on tv, and in some instances if we are lucky companies such as Arrow Video, Shout Factory, 88 Films and others love these movies as much as we do and release them on dvd and Blu Ray so you can watch them time and again in Hi Def.
And then sometimes if we are really really lucky. we get to experience them on the big screen.
This happened recently to a movie i have a real soft spot for.
A cult classic.
A movie about a failed mission to Halley's Comet which brings about an apocalyptic event that could be the end of humanity.
Thats right. the movie i am talking about is Tobe Hooper's 1985 Cult Classic........
LIFEFORCE.
Back in 1985, i was only 12 so i was way too young to go to the cinema and see this scifi masterpiece, it wasnt until it was released on video that i finally saw it and what can i say i actually enjoyed it (I have been told i will pretty much sit through anything!).
It has a bit of everything. Action. Drama. Romance (sort of) and of course the creme de la creme of British Stage and Screen.
Staring in this little gem of a movie we have Steve Railsback (The Stuntman, Barb Wire), Peter Firth (Spooks, The Hunt for Red October), Frank Finlay (The Three Musketeers. The Four Musketeers), Patrick Stewart (Star Trek the Next Generation) to name but a few, and the standout performance is Mathilda May (The Jackal) for reasons that are obvious in the movie (add to the fact it must have been bloody cold and taken a lot of bottle to perform as she did!)
Anyway back to what i was saying......
Its not often you get to see a classic movie back on the big screen, but luckily thanks to a local Horror festival including a Tobe Hooper Retrospective, I finally got to see that classic movie on the big screen about 33 years after it was first released.
Anyway a bit about the movie......
Lifeforce tells the story of the joint ESA/Nasa mission to Halley's Comet which finds a 150mile long derelict spaceship hidden. And as this is a "scifi horror" movie, that's right the crew decide to investigate.
Inside they find multiple bodies of bat like creatures and 3 human figures. 2 men and 1 woman.
They take one of the batlike bodies and the the 3 human bodies back to the ship.
Well as you can guess things dont go to plan and the earth ends up in peril, and it's up to Col. Tom Carlsen, the sole survivor of the Halley's Comet expedition and SAS Col. Colin Caine to track down
the space vampires after they get loose in London, and put an end to the plague they unleash on the capital.
Overacting goes into overload (I'm looking at you Patrick Stewart) and some scenes are unintentionally funny, but it is a not bad scifi action adventure flick that will be a guilty pleasure for some.
I would recommend looking out for this little gem of a movie, you won't be disappointed.
I'd give this 2 thumbs up.
As a side note, for those that havent seen this little gem, i would recommend watching this first and then watch the recent Tom Cruise Mummy movie and have a drinking game every time you see a similarity.
You will most likely end up drunk!!!
Enjoy :)
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