Lifeforce

film #30 of hoop-tober 2.0 lifeforce is a great idea for a film that fails in the story execution. tobe hooper's sci-fi horror flick has some great special effects and an effective concept of vampires as energy-draining space creatures, but there's just too much goofiness to take seriously. foremost among those elements is the idea that protagonist tom carlsen, played by steve railsback as if he was honey-glazed, has a psychic link to mathilda may's female vampire. while an interesting idea, it mostly serves to provide clunky exposition and to muddle carlson's motives which just drags down... read more

okay, phew, finally made it through, but again not without nodding off a few times. what we've got here is a pretty insane movie tanked by a slew of excruciatingly boring characters. could have used someone more fun than steve railsback to offset the 3 stuffy british dudes you've already got populating 90% of the scenes. sweet fx & crazy ambitious but someone forgot to put a likeable presence at the center of it. read more