Lifeforce (film)
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- For the arcade game, see Life Force (arcade game).
The story begins with an Anglo-American space shuttle, the Churchill, investigating Halley's Comet. The crew finds a large spaceship hidden in the nucleus of the comet. Upon investigation, the shuttle crew finds three human bodies, two male and one female (played by Mathilda May), in suspended animation in the spacecraft. The shuttle starts the return trip to Earth with the three beings. On Earth, Mission Control loses communication with the shuttle. As it nears Earth, a rescue mission is conducted. The rescuers find the Churchill gutted by fire, except for the three suspended animation cases bearing the aliens. The three are taken to earth where they eventually unleash havoc. They are actually members of a race of space vampires that consume the lifeforce from living beings and send it to their ship.
The three vampires escape from confinement and proportionally transform most of London's population into zombies. Once "zombified", the victims cycle into living-dead every two hours and seek out the 'lifeforce' of the living. These people also become zombies.
The only survivor of the shuttle mission Carlsen (played by Railsback), British colonel Caine (played by Firth) and scientist Fallada (played by Finlay) attempt to find and kill the space vampires before the entire planet's population becomes undead.
Lifeforce stars Steve Railsback as the leader of the shuttle mission and Mathilda May as the beautiful (and mostly naked) female space vampire. Frank Finlay and Peter Firth have supporting roles as the British authorities pursuing the vampires and Patrick Stewart plays a minor role as the director of a psychiatric institution. The movie features a stirring score by the late Henry Mancini.
The plot has some similarities to 28 Days Later, directed by Danny Boyle, The Quatermass Experiment, and The Omega Man.
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- The film is also available in a 115-minute version on DVD.
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