Lifeforce - The Deadly Menace

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Movie
German title Lifeforce - The Deadly Menace
Original title Lifeforce
Country of production UK , USA
original language English
Publishing year 1985
length 97 minutes
Director's Cut: 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Tobe Hooper
script Dan O'Bannon ,
Don Jakoby
production Yoram Globus ,
Menahem Golan
music Henry Mancini ,
Michael Kamen
camera Alan Hume
cut John Grover
occupation

Life Force - The deadly threat (Original title: Life Force ) is a British SF horror film from 1985. Directed led Tobe Hooper , the writer wrote Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakobi after the Roman vampires from outer space (The Space Vampires) by Colin Wilson . The film was produced by Cannon Films , with Steve Railsback and Peter Firth in the lead roles . The film opened in German cinemas on November 7, 1985.

action

The ESA space shuttle Churchill encounters an alien spaceship while researching Halley's Comet . On board, the crew around Colonel Tom Carlsen finds three glass containers, each with a human-like being . Shortly afterwards, the Churchill drifts rudderlessly towards earth. The crew of the US space shuttle Columbia , which is sent into space as a rescue mission, discovers that the Churchill has burned out completely inside. The crew members are dead, the three glass containers with bodies are found on board. These are brought to Earth from Columbia , where the bodies are examined in a London research institute.

One of the bodies found was that of a young woman. She wakes up, attacks a security guard and flees. The military is called in, the Colonel of the Special Air Service Colin Caine takes command. The other two bodies attack two soldiers and are shot. The attacked security guard dies after two hours, his body is disfigured. The lead scientist Dr. Hans Fallada states that his life energy has been removed.

The space shuttle's escape pod lands in Texas . Colonel Carlsen is brought to London and tells about the events. After the bodies found on the alien ship are brought to the space shuttle, the crew members begin to die. To protect the earth, Carlsen ignites the space shuttle and rescues in the capsule.

The escaped woman kills a girl in Hyde Park . The further trail leads to a mental hospital in the province. Carlsen can recognize infected people by touching them. He realizes that the head of the clinic has also been infected, the spirit of the vampire is in his body. Carlsen learns that the vampire's body has been hidden in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral . Caine and Carlsen fly back to London in a helicopter.

Meanwhile, more and more Londoners are turning into vampires. A blue beam connects St Paul's Cathedral with the alien spaceship, the souls of the transformed people are sent there. The prime minister, whom Caine and Carlsen visit in his shelter, has already changed. The officers flee, the helicopter takes them to the base outside the sealed-off city. The NATO takes command, we consider the use of thermonuclear weapons to destroy London and the vampires.

Carlsen finds that he has a strong psychological bond with the vampire. He's going back to London. Caine also travels to London, where he learns of the now infected Fallada, where Carlsen and the vampire can be found. In front of St Paul's Cathedral, he kills one of the first two male vampires. He sees Carlsen kissing the vampire in the crypt and throws him a sword. Carlsen pierces the vampire and himself with his sword, the bodies fly through the air to the alien spaceship, Caine watches.

Background and reviews

Production costs amounted to about 25 million US dollars .

  • Colin Wilson , the author of the original novel, says in his autobiography Dreaming To Some Purpose (2004) of "worst movie of all time" ( "worst movie ever made", p 332).
  • The Catholic film service writes: "Trickly staged science fiction adventure that exploits countless motifs, also from the Christian language of faith, in a superficial and self-serving way."

Awards

In 1985, John Dykstra won the Caixa de Catalunya award at the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantástic de Sitges for special effects . The film was nominated in 1986 for the special effects and for the best horror film for the Saturn Award .

literature

  • Colin Wilson: Vampires from Space. (Roman, 238 p., Orig. The Space Vampires. German by Klaus Weidemann ), Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin / Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-548-31016-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release Certificate for Lifeforce - The Deadly Menace . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2004 (PDF; test number: 55 994 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ Lifeforce - The Deadly Threat in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used ; accessed on August 15, 2009