Lifeforce

A manned mission to examine Halley's comet finds an alien craft traveling in it's wake.
Aboard the craft are thousands of dead bat like creatures, and 3 apparently human creatures - 2 men and a woman, each in stasis chambers, which are removed and placed aboard the shuttle.
When the shuttle crash lands, the crew are dead and the in-flight records wiped, Things go further awry when the 3 beings from the alien craft awaken...

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I went into this one totally blind, and during the opening credits thought I was in for some classy sci-fi; "Staring Patric Stewart" say the credits, and then "Music preformed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra", I was even willing to forget the "Directed by Tobe Hooper" (Who's output, Chainsaw aside  is mostly mediocre at best)... but then we get to the writing credits; specifically "Based on the novel "The Space Vampires"), sigh...


It starts as some resionably serious sci-fi, before turning into a Half Zombie-movie, half Vampire movie shambles.

It has some great ideas at its core, but becomes needlessly convoluted as the 'Vampires' rules seem to change from scene to scene, driven by the plot rather than vice versa.

Some of the effects are great - the first 'zombie' style creature that we see, while not convincing, is brilliantly designed and as creepy as hell - others no so great, such as obviously rubber heads.

It also has that special hollywood gender bias, where the female vampire (all 3 spend a lot of the film naked) is often filmed head to toe in prefect focus, while we have no on-screen evidence that the male vampires even have genitals  even on the ship, the 3 crystal clear stasis chambers are spotlessly clean... save for a strange smudge on the lids of the 2 male ones at just below waist hight. Obviously, I couldn't care less about it from a pervy point of view; but when they try so hard to hide what we all know is there I find it shatters suspension of disbelief and distracts me from the story way more than any male genitals ever would.

At almost 2 hours this one is FAR too long, and it's a shame - with only 80 mins to fill, and some of the more convoluted elements dropped, this could have been quite good; as is, it's barely watchable.