Nov 9th 

Lifeforce 

(GB/US 1985)                             

Cannon. 116m. Panavision

An Anglo-American space exploration towards Halley's Comet encounters an organic alien ship, which unleashes a deadly plague of life-sucking aliens across London.
Spectacularly ridiculous sci-fi horror on a cheapjack production that undercuts both its setting and its plot (with Hertfordshire standing in laughably for London), but nonetheless arresting and suspenseful in its shock factor.

Written by: Dan O'Bannon, Don Jakoby, based on the novel "Space Vampires" by Colin Wilson.
Producers: Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus.
Director: Tobe Hooper.
Starring: Steve Railsbeck, Mathilda May, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Michael Gothard, Nicholas Ball, Patrick Stewart, Aubrey Morris.
Photography: Alan Hume.
Music: Henry Mancini.
Prosthetic Make-up Effects: Nick Maley.
Special Visual Effects: John Dykstra.