{"id":12309,"date":"2017-11-26T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12309"},"modified":"2017-11-26T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T18:45:17","slug":"lifeforce-1985-tobe-hooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12309","title":{"rendered":"Lifeforce (1985, Tobe Hooper)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In memory of two recently-departed horror directors, who made some of the best horror films in history, I caught up with two<\/a> of their worst pictures…<\/p>\n

To begin with, a bullshit voiceover lets us know that this spaceship, created with colored lights and 1980’s computer graphics, has some inexplicable gravity technology – just trust us, we’re on a spaceship but there’s gravity. I don’t recall Star Trek<\/em> worrying themselves with explaining the ship’s artificial gravity, except when it broke in the sixth movie.<\/p>\n

Discovering nude-vampire crystals inside the space anus:<\/em>
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Fallada, looking like an apocalyptic preacher:<\/em>
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“I almost have the feeling I’ve been here before” as they fly into a giant vaginal-looking tunnel. Astronauts discover nude, crystal-encased space vampires and bring them home via a badly failed first mission plus a second rescue mission. The sole survivor of the first mission is Steve Railsback (later of Scissors<\/em> and Alligator II: The Mutation<\/em>), who couldn’t help but sexually harass the female alien (Mathilda May, later of some Chabrol and Demy films) and becomes psychically connected to her. Railsback works with Peter Firth (Tess<\/em>, Equus<\/em>) and alien-invaded doctor Patrick Stewart to track down the vampire girl, while dapper white-haired Professor Fallada (Frank Finlay, one of Richard Lester’s Musketeers<\/a>) and barely-competent Dr. Bukovsky (Michael Gothard, Oliver Reed’s executor in The Devils<\/a><\/em>) try to contain the evil – and fail utterly, as most of London falls to the vampire-zombie plague. <\/p>\n

Patrick Stewart Replica:<\/em>
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Return of the Living Dead Zombie Phantom Alien Vampires:<\/em>
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More perverted and apocalyptic than most 1980’s horror movies, at least. The movie’s pretty okay, but the concept is cool as hell, so it’s got my respect. Tobe’s follow-up to Poltergeist<\/em>, produced by Cannon Films, cowritten by Dan O’Bannon, who made Return of the Living Dead<\/em> the same year, which ties into our next filmmaker<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In memory of two recently-departed horror directors, who made some of the best horror films in history, I caught up with two of their worst pictures… To begin with, a bullshit voiceover lets us know that this spaceship, created with colored lights and 1980’s computer graphics, has some inexplicable gravity technology – just trust us, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,712,198,1212,40,350,1271,186,100],"class_list":["post-12309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-aliens","tag-apocalypse","tag-memorial-screening","tag-psychic","tag-space-travel","tag-tobe-hooper","tag-vampires","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12340,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions\/12340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}