| Lifeforce | |
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| Credits | |
| Title: | Lifeforce |
| Director: | Tobe Hooper |
| Writers: | Dan O'Bannon; Don Jakoby |
| Producers: | Yoram Globus; Menahem Golan; Michael J. Kagan |
| Composer: | Henry Mancini |
| Cinematography: | Alan Hume |
| Editors: | John Grover |
| Production | |
| Distributed by: | Golan-Globus Productions; London-Cannon Films |
| Released: | June 21st, 1985 |
| Rating: | R |
| Running time: | 116 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $25,000,000 |
| Gross: | $11,603,545 (USA) |
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Plot[]
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Steve Railsback | Colonel Tom Carlsen |
| Peter Firth | Colonel Colin Caine |
| Frank Finlay | Doctor Hans Fallada |
| Mathilda May | Space girl |
| Patrick Stewart | Doctor Armstrong |
| Michael Gothard | Doctor Bukovsky |
| Nicholas Ball | Roger Derebridge |
| Aubrey Morris | Sir Percy Heseltine |
| Nancy Paul | Ellen Donaldson |
| John Hallam | Lamson |
| John Keegan | Guard |
| Christopher Jagger | First vampire |
| Bill Malin | Second vampire |
| Jerome Willis | Pathologist |
| Derek Benfield | Physician |
| John Woodnutt | Metallurgist |
| Peter Porteous | Prime Minister |
| Katherine Schofield | Prime Minister's Secretary |
| Owen Holder | First scientist |
| Jamie Roberts | Rawlings |
| Russell Sommers | Navigation office |
| Patrick Connor | Fatherly guard |
| Sidney Kean | Brash guard |
| Paul Cooper | Second guard |
| Chris Sullivan | Kelly |
| Milton Cadman | First soldier |
| Rupert Baker | Second soldier |
| Gary Hildreth | Police surgeon |
| Edward Evans | Doctor |
| Nicholas Donnelly | Police inspector |
| Peter Lovstrom | First boy in park |
| Julian Firth | Second boy in park |
| Carl Rigg | First radar technician |
| Elizabeth Morton | Second radar technician |
| Geoffrey Frederick | Communications officer |
| David English | First crewperson |
| Emma Jacobs | Second crewperson |
| Michael John Paliotti | Third crewperson |
| Brian Carroll | Fourth crewperson |
| Richard Oldfield | Mission leader |
| Christopher Barr | Trajectory officer |
| Burnell Tucker | NASA man |
| Thom Booker | First NASA officer |
| Michael Fitzpatrick | Second NASA officer |
| Richard Sharpe | Ship crewman |
| John Golightly | Colonel |
| William Lindsay | Colonel's aide |
| David Beckett | Soldier |
| Sydney Livingstone | Ned Price |
| Ken Parry | Sykes |
| John Edmunds | BBC commentator |
| Haydn Wood | Helicopter pilot |
Notes & Trivia[]
- Based on the novel The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson.
- The tagline for this film is, "In the blink of an eye, the terror begins".
- Production on Lifeforce began on February 2nd, 1984.
- Lifeforce was released to DVD by MGM Home Entertainment on May 27th, 1998.
- Director Tobe Hooper is considered by many to be an icon of the horror genre and is responsible for directing such films as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Eaten Alive, Poltergeist, The Mangler and Night Terrors.
- Michael Armstrong and Olaf Pooley did not receive screenwriting credits on this film.
- Dan O'Bannon is also known for writing the original treatment for Alien.
- Actor John Larroquette provides the voice for the narrator in this film. Larroquette also provided the opening narration for Hooper's first film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.