Remembered watching this as a kid and being in love with the Vampire Goddess. Recently rewatched and still blown away by the perfection that is Mathilda May.
I saw this when it came out with my dad (took me and my brothers to a lot of exploitation films with boobs). Outside of one girl I met IRL I don’t think I’ve ever scene a woman as beautiful as her. She became permanent spank material even before I knew there was such a thing.
Whats more attractive is she and other 60 / 70 woman had natural beauty, no surgery, no CGI body touch ups, yes life is not fair and few will look as good but it proves these bodies occur naturally, and should not be shamed off screen or for advertising.
Lifeforce's vindication comes from the fact that its loved and cherished 35 years later,and has also found a legion of new admirers born after it was made
My copy is on VHS!!! I loved the movie and still pop it into my VHS player once in a while. One of my reasons for loving Lifeforce was it starred Steve Railsback who played the character Charles Manson in Helter Skelter and was delighted to see him in a couple of episodes of The X Files! I loved Lifeforce too because it was so campy, serious but comedic at times! Being a bit sexy with the two beautiful actresses also didn't hurt!
@@toddy2519 While I loved Railsback as Mason (iirc it was a made for TV thing), my favorite of his was The Stuntman with Peter O'toole. This is a film that completely subverts your expectations at every turn. It needs more love.
Fell in love with Mathilda May (aka Space Girl) when I saw this movie in the theatre. I'm surprised Minty was able to find enough footage of her with clothes on for this video.
I agree. I haven't seen the movie yet, but two things interested me about it when I was young. A fascination with vampires (space vampires intrigued me) and a crush on her that I developed after seeing her on the back of the vhs copy in stores. Sadly I was too young to buy it back then and had no allowance at the time.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Mathilda May was likely the cause of many jumpstarted puberties. Lifeforce being a box office bomb is one of those sad facts of life that is hard to believe. I am glad this one found an audience.
Because of the rating my mother took _13 year old boy_ me to see it in the cinema, she knew I liked Dr Who and thought it was like _Quartermass and the Pit._ I spent a lot of the movie hugging my knees to my chest - but not out of fear. To say the meal at McDonald's afterwards was awkward is a understatement.
@@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser Matilda May was in the film The Jackal with Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, J.K. Simmons, Jack Black and many others. It was her first film in America. All the rest were in Europe after Lifeforce.
One of my all time favorites! I still watch it around Halloween every year. Needless to say, the actress who played the lead vampire had a substantial effect on 13 year old me. I realized years later that I unintentionally married someone who looks a lot like her!
I love lifeforce its one of my favorite movies and directed by my favorite horror director Tobe Hooper. Mathilda may one of my favorite women of cinema. A great 1 hr 56 minute movie.
I loved the sci-fi/horror aspect of the movie and seeing that I was 12 at the time thought the brunette was beautiful. The 80s were such a great time for movies. Another video gem, thanks Minty!
Matilda May was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Perfect. Besides that it was a fun /great movie. Good effects for it's time and good story telling. A fav from the past. If a critic puts a movie down, you know it's usually a good movie.
Fun fact: Patrick Stewart wasn't the only Star Trek alum Steve Railsback worked with. He also appeared in an episode of the 80s Twilight Zone with John DeLancie (Q) and Brent Spiner (Data).
Thank you for this review. I remember watching this on cable with my friends in the 80's. Let's just say the only special effects we were concerned with were those of the female vampire.
I always think this movie is older than it is. I get a strong connection/feel with this movie and 1967's Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Years to Earth.
Call me shallow, but I mainly remember Lifeforce because of Mathilda May's body. Epic! Lol I also love the charging vampire exploding on the cell bars..I also love Linnea Quigley's dance in graveyard in Return of the Living Dead. They were onto something there😄😄
You're not shallow, or at least not for the reason you watched this movie. Whether they want to admit it or not, everyone commenting here watched this movie for the body, then watched it again for the brains. It is a cool movie, but a gorgeous naked woman is going to win everytime....and I say that as a self proclaimed prude.
I love one of the behind the scenes pictures of the film where Mathilda May is standing completely naked hands on hips while her co-star is chatting with her😄
This movie was playing at a small theater about a mile or so from my house. Between this movie, Return of the living dead and Fright Night, I pretty much spent my summer at this theater. It didn't hurt that the manager of said theater was my old 6th grade math tutor, so he would let me in for free almost all the time....not to mention that he would let a 14 year old in with no guardian...man, 1985 was a pretty good year for horror films!!!!
THIS IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE 80'S FILMS.I LOVED MATHILDA MAY'S PERFORMANCE.IT'S A SHAME THE FILM DON'T GET THE CREDIT IT DESERVES.HANDS DOWN ONE OF THE BEST CULT CLASSICS SINCE JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING REMAKE THAT CAME OUT OF THE 80'S WELL DONE MINTY.😎
Back in the 80:s, At the age of 15 this was one of my favorite movies, and hearing you speak of mathilda may, I now remember why. Strange how I forgot her, but remembered the zombie guy running at the bars and blowing up into dust.
In 1985 I saw both cocoon and Lifeforce in the theater. Since then I’ve gone on to watch Cocoon one more time on video but I’ve seen life force a dozen or more times. Life force is so underrated!
A clip from Lifeforce turns up in Tobe Hooper's next flick Invaders from Mars the following year when the boy turns on the TV and tunes into a channel showing the movie. You should do The Keep, a similar film from the same period which is also overlooked.
I agree! I love "The Keep"!!!!!! The Keep was an amazing movie even though the "monster" in its "smoke" form was a bit cheesy. I always felt the professor's daughter, ( Alberta Watson ) was so beautiful and the plot, as well as the photography, was top notch. The music by Tangerine Dream was awesome!!!!
I’m surprised that Over The Top was a flop. It came out when I was in 2nd grade and I remember my whole class saw it. We were all arm wrestling each other the week after it came out.
My favorite 🍿🎥🤓🤗💕 I was 13 I remember when it came out I didn't see it in the theater saw it on VHS I immediately was scared and fascinated loved that it was filmed in England made it even more regal the cast perfect Matilda was definitely luminous Beauty and sexuality this movie and Excalibur my top two favorite movies of all time
If you're a fan of this flick, make sure to check out Brandon Tenold's 2-part video review of it if you don't already follow him. Which you 100% should.
What's insane is I used to get pissed when I saw that Superman was on TV and it wasn't part 4, my favorite one only to grow up and find out it was despised by critics and everyone and their mothers along with Masters of the Universe which I still love and waiting for the sequel to this day. Also, the one damn time I caught Over the Top on TV, I freakin loved it! Never saw it again. I'm sure ill hate it lol!
Classic?? The films constant rewrites, contradicts it self, the pacing is all out, the first victim explodes, then all the other victims become zombies??
@@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser No, they explode when they don't get "fed" for the first time as we see with the surgeon. Space Girl infects other victims in London and they then feed off other people in a chain reaction. I love the pacing, the last 3rd just ramps things up brilliantly, .
Hard to believe this film came out 6 years after Alien, it looks like it was made earlier in my opinion. It’s also pretty amazing that Alien only cost $11m compared to the $25m of Lifeforce.
I have seen it! A couple times at the Cinema, and of course, on DVD. Without a doubt, one of my favourites. And Matilda May certainly grabbed screen presence… I'd like to see the full movie. I certainly hope that it is released sometime. BluRay edition maybe?
I know this movie only from my brothers old Fangora magazines. I used to have nightmares after even movies like The Toxic Avenger until my brother (against my parents best judgement) gave me a small stack of Fangoras and I never had a problem after that. I was young and I felt like I really knew something my friends didn’t know yet. Freakin awesome!
I remember seeing scenes back when I was a kid and it freaked the hell out of me. Years later I tried to rediscover that film for a while because I didn't know the name of it.
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Huh? Have you seen her? She went on the usual actress crash diet a couple years after Lifeforce and lost ALL her wonderful baby fat and her super wonderful breasts. Now she looks like a typical older skinny French actress. Meh. Check her out in The Jackal with Richard Gere and Bruce Willis. She plays a Basque terrorist. Cute but nothing like The Space Girl.
In addition to John Dykstra's visual effects, respect also goes to Nick Maley's makeup and creature effects. Watching Lifeforce as a preteen was a good news/bad news trade-off; good news was I got to see Mathilda May, the bad news was those dried-out, living-dead corpses gave me the creeps.
This movie was AWESOME!! Naked chicks, space vampires, special effects...my brother and I loved when this came on (cable tv, we had it on navy base in the 1978-1986)
I was in my thirties when I first saw this and man it scared the piss out of me. I sat through and enjoyed The Thing with no problem and several other movies but this one got to me. To this day I can make through the space scenes and some of the earth stuff but once the life sucking begins I'm out.
I first saw Life Force at a Drive In. Towards the end of the movie, a thunder storm rolled in. All the on screen lightening with the real thing happening in the sky behind the screen, made for truly stunning viewing!
Badly underrated and always worth a repeat viewing - if only to admire MS May's talents - with more than a few memorable scenes, the crazy blood image in the helicopter is a standout. Remember I found this as a £1 bargain bin video back in the day, believe or not with a copy of Bladerunner for the same price
I loved this movie! 11:20 Wasn't it said that Lucas came up with the design for the Millenium Falcon after he ordered a burger at a diner and it arrived with a pickle hanging out the side?
Thanks for doing this one Minty, I'd asked for this in the comments only a few months ago. I really need to see the longer version now as I haven't seen this film for a long time but remember it well as when I was a young teenager I recollect a big article about it in one of the UK Sunday paper supplements at the time making me want to see it.
This movie gave me nightmares as a child. Then when I was 14 I decided to watch it, just because I wanted to know what was so scary, then...my sis and I just started to laugh at it
While it is true that Mick Jagger's brother, Chris Jagger, played one of the male space vampires, the actor you showed in your video was actually Bill Malin, who played the other male space vampire.
In all these years I've been watching your channel, this is the first time you showed me a movie I haven't ever heard of. I NEED TO LOOK THIS ONE UP!!!
Thanks for this 10 things episode. Love Lifeforce, actually only watched it for the 1st time 5 years ago, even though I'm an 80's kid who is also a movie buff. Somehow this just slipped past me, but so glad to watch it when I did. Makes me appreciate the 80's even more.
Seen this movie about a dozen times since it's release. I feel I enjoy it more every time I watch it. I would recommend watching it 3 times before final judgement. I love this flick.
If you are reading the comments first and have not seen the movie - go watch it first! It is so much better to go into the movie cold. I do have to say, it is good that now more people will see the movie.
I came here expecting a review of a classic NES game that involved spaceships flying around and fighting random enemies. Instead, I got a review of some movie I'd never heard of before...
@@eq1373 He did both. Dykstra worked on Superman after working on Star Wars. Who do you think did that opening title sequence with the actors' names streaking across the screen from the foreground to the background? That didn't look at all familiar?
