Post by harrycanyon on Apr 17, 2010 23:27:05 GMT -5
Now here is one of those vampire movies that don't play on the Dracula/Stoker/Rice mentality of vampires everyone knows but being different.
It's an underrated Sci-fi horror thriller cult fave from Tobe Hooper and Dan O' Bannon about UK and US astroanuts that explore Haley's Comet. They discover an old spaceship with freeze dried bat-like alien creatures and three nude humanoids one female and two male perversed in energy crystals as they are brought to Earth including one of the bat like dead creatures for research. So on Earth in London at the research facility, they wake up as they are actually vampire-like creatures that drain energy of humans to turn them into fast moving zombies that begin to infect London. However a surviving astronaut and two scientists begin to search in England for the vampires before the world will be doomed.
It's like a cross between "Fright Night" meets "The Thing" and "28 Days Later". This one takes a new level of the vampire mythology similar to "Twilight" and even the vampires are similar to the Cullen and Hales except not shining like gold in the sun but can walk in the sunlight and that the vampires in "Lifeforce" are alien because they came to Earth eons ago as they were source and birth to every vampire of legend here on Earth including zombies. These vampires have no fangs, don't burn when the sunlight hits them, don't drink blood, not being the undead, not romantic (ala Dracula, Edward or Lestat), not being Eurotrash, holy objects including garlic don't harm them, and can stay up forever. They do drain energy out of other people like vampires, they can rest in energy crystals like coffins, they can become bat-like creatures and can go from body-to-another body to possess psychically in people's minds.
Here's a rare gem of the genre of vampires that does something different than the same old and is a very interesting and erotic one as it also stars Patrick Stewart.