Lifeforce (1985) poster
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Lifeforce

HorrorScience FictionAction

Directed by Tobe Hooper

A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos. From TMDB

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Lifeforce is a 1985 horror science fiction action film, directed by Tobe Hooper, starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth and Frank Finlay.

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  • Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @slimyswampghost.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2025

    Closest we're ever going to get to a Resident Evil movie that feels like the original Resident Evil 2 or 3, aside from the last half hour of Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce.

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  • Neil Grayson @neilgrayson.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    Watched the utterly deranged 1985 sci-fi vampire epic Lifeforce and I respect any film whose central plot is basically “space nudity causes the apocalypse.” Best line in cinema history remains: “Now she has clothes!”

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  • Boovacado Ghost @bavacadotoast.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2026

    It's amazing how well this poster captures the spirit of the movie. #NowWatching Lifeforce (1985) #horrorsky

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    Lifeforce (1985) Directed by Tobe Hooper starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, and Mathilda May. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office failure, but has since become a cult classic.

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  • Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2025

    Less than 1.5 hours until LIFEFORCE, the 1985 space vampire movie that I have been aware of for quite some time without ever actually seeing it. That changes tonight, when we will experience it collectively for #horrorwatch. Be there (Tubi at 9 ET) or be square!

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  • Philby Bear (they/them) @philbybear.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2025

    4. Lifeforce (dir. Tobe Hooper, 1985). Is this a good movie? Absolutely not. Is this a fun, batshit, one of its kind movie? 1000% yes. It's like an episode of Doctor Who fed enough viagra to kill a herd of elephants and locked in a room with nothing to read but Freud and Stoker.

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  • Imran Sheikh @indieimmy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2025

    Happy 40th anniversary to the sci-fi horror film #Lifeforce which was released On This Day 21/6/85. Directed by Tobe Hooper.

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2026

    Lifeforce (1985) Directed by Tobe Hooper starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, and Mathilda May. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office failure, but has since become a cult classic.

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  • Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @slimyswampghost.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2024

    no matter what you can almost always watch the 1985 tobe hooper film LIFEFORCE with your friends. this is almost always an option available to you.

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  • Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2025

    I've been working all day and can't decide on anything new to watch, so I'm watching LIFEFORCE for the 4,689th time.

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  • Vinson Loves Comics @vinsonlovescomics.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    Tonight's movie, Lifeforce (1985) I know it has a cult following, but never did see it

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    My man Patrick Stewart said LIFEFORCE was “a deliriously entertaining bad movie” and boasted that his first on-screen kiss was with Steve Railsback Who didn’t love him? RIP

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    Lifeforce (1985) Directed by Tobe Hooper

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  • Pazuzus fathers brothers nephews cousins former roommate @mark-80.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2025

    #NowWatching Lifeforce (1985) #Sci-fi #Horror #Movies #Film

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  • Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2025

    Revisited LIFEFORCE tonight and what an opulent, stunning, whole lot of movie. It’s Bram Stoker’s 2001 by way of a two-page Fangoria magazine gore spread. I don’t know if it’s Tobe Hooper’s best, but it might just be my favorite of his work. So many ideas, so much delivery. Sometimes more IS more.

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  • ⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.comBluesky · Nov 2, 2026

    Saw #FrightClub was watching LIFEFORCE tonight and while 10pm is too late for my old ass to start a movie, I thank them for the idea because it's probably what we're going to watch now But if you'll be up, join them and follow @frightya.bsky.social 🤘📽️🩸

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  • ɢᴇᴍɪɴɪ @gemini8.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2026

    #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #horrorsky #filmsky Lifeforce: Fun sci-fi to zombie movie Two Evil Eyes: 2 stories, pretty tame Noseeums: not much to see here An American Werewolf in Paris: romance more than transformation, disappointed

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2025

    Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #137 "Lifeforce" (Tobe Hooper/1985) Hooper's epic and completely bonkers Cannon film about space vampires. This film is worth watching just for how crazy things get and how over the top it goes. Check it out!

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  • feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    I’ve wanted to watch Tobe Hooper’s horny, campy space vampire movie Lifeforce forever. I forgot Patrick Stewart is in it and he has a weird male to male kiss scene too lol

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  • Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    I feel like not enough people know that the creepy animatronic head at the core of Duran Duran's iconic Wild Boys video, shot at Pinewood Studios, is *literally* the rubber cast of Patrick Stewart's head used in Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce, which was shot at Pinewood Studios *right* before Wild Boys.

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  • JustinallecBOO @justinallec807.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2026

    Cleaving my life into the "hearing about Lifeforce" phase and "having watched Lifeforce" phase, forever changed. Weirdly solidifies into a true apocalyptic nightmare of horny paranoia + desperate scifi action. Railsbeck, May, Firth, Stewart (RIP) all mvps, this was awesome. Hooper, you're a madman!

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  • Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2025

    "Lifeforce" had alien vampires, and I'm pretty sure this is the only scene in the movie where she wore clothes.

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  • Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @slimyswampghost.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2024

    LIFEFORCE is legitimately a great movie, zero irony

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  • Anguirus @anguirus.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2025

    just rewatched LIFEFORCE (1985) and by god this film has EVERYTHING -a score ripped off by "Baldur's Gate" -a 3rd act ripped off by "Mass Effect 3" -a lead villain who's naked for 90% of her screentime -Patrick Stewart making out w/a guy -based on the novel "The Space Vampires" -fucking grim ending

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2024

    Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #30 "Lifeforce" (Tobe Hooper/1985) Hooper's completely bonkers film about space vampires. This was Cannon Films' most expensive production. You got to check this one out!

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  • James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2026

    The NERVA rocket in Lifeforce is wildly overpowered. How am I supposed to take this space vampire movie seriously?

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  • Aaron - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    Our #HalloweenRecs for tonight is Lifeforce. A wild film about space vampires that steal your lifeforce by... let's say unconventional methods. I had another film planned tonight but in honor of the late great Sir Patrick Stewart, I wanted to share the film where he had his first on camera kiss

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  • Toby Hadoke @tobyhadoke.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2026

    On Sundays I observe Quatermass: on 1st Nov I will be introducing (alongside @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social) a thrilling double bill of Quatermass and the Pit (film) and Lifeforce. Big trouble & frenzied destruction in London: sci-fi horror-tastic. Tickets selling fast! www.homemcr.org/whats-on/qua...

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  • Odrok the Deceiver @odrok.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2026

    Mathilda May in Lifeforce. Slightly goofy movie, but if we're talking "best anyone has ever looked" she's def on the list. (This is a SFW pic, she has to be one of the most physically flawless humans ever born)

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  • Reel Obscure Podcast @reelobscurepod.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2026

    And here it is, you sick, shameless deviants. My discussion of the 1985 "movie" LIFEFORCE. youtu.be/U8L37wKt6WI?... YouTube has limited ads on this one so if you do enjoy it and would like to help support me financially you can do so with the Thanks option under the "..." below the video. Thanks!

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  • Paul Jessup @pauljessup.comBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    Tomorrow! Tomorrow! It will be the greatest night of the week! #horrorwatch, our #horror #watchparty on #horrorsky! Join us 9PM EST as we watch Lifeforce, the classic Toby Hooper filmed Space Vampire movie, written by none other than Dan O'Bannon, mister Alien himself! Free to watch on Tubi

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  • Miss Machete, Pumpkin Spice Cannibal @miss-machete.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    #nowwatching Lifeforce (1985) Okay, so I love this movie. There's psychic space vampires, a zombie apocalypse, and London burns to the ground. What's not to love? Oh, and Patrick Stewart's here. Rock on. #horrorsky #filmsky #moviesky

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  • that nerd Logan @datlogan.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2025

    #LastFourWatched for this blessed #LetterboxdFriday - This week was a banger. The Holiday was a super ridiculous romcom, Jude Law is far too attractive in this movie; it's distracting. One Battle After Another was an absolute banger, so suspenseful the entire second half. Lifeforce... Words cannot

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  • Blaze @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 22, 2025

    Lifeforce at 40: A Film Only Cannon Could Have Made.

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  • Seven of Sixty Nine @internetperson69.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    I just saw this vampire movie Lifeforce (1985) for the first time. Patrick Stewart is listed in the credits but the first half of the movie was so campy and ridiculous, and I didn't see P.S. anywhere, so I started to doubt myself, and I thought that maybe it was a different actor of the same name

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  • 💖Super Marcey💖 @supermarcey.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2026

    #Junesploitation 2026 Day 20 ‘80s Sci-fi’ Film Watched: Lifeforce (1985)

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  • The Digital Bits @thedigitalbits.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2026

    Bits #4K Review – @sbjork.bsky.social dives back into Tobe Hooper's 1985 #scifi #horror film LIFEFORCE, available as a Region-Free 4-Disc #4K #UltraHD #Bluray Australian import from @imprintfilms.bsky.social & Via Vision Entertainment. @billhuntbits.bsky.social thedigitalbits.com/reviews/item...

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  • SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2025

    Colin Wilson was born on this day, so here's three book covers and a film poster (Artists 2nd by Karel Thole, 3rd by Leo Musch; couldn't identify the other artists). 'Lifeforce' was based on Wilson's novel "The Space Vampires":

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  • 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    1985, I was in the Manchester University Bookstore with a friend, and we were making fun of the movie "Lifeforce". A head wearing a beret slowly extended around the corner. Looked at us like microbes, raised an eyebrow. Patrick Stewart. RIP, Sir Pat. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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  • Bryant Durrell @innocence.comBluesky · Jan 19, 2025

    Quite happy to be surprised by Lifeforce as the #horrorwatch pick! I have cherished this movie since my teenage brain was shocked by it; haven’t seen it in decades. Mute the tag as needed.

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  • Stuart Webb @inflatabledalek.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2025

    Been a week, so a late night movie with Lifeforce! A film with two big things everyone remembers. Patrick Stewart having a gay kiss and Dwayne Barry from the X-Files having more trouble with aliens.

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  • Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2024

    Now watching: Lifeforce (1985), which is apparently either a terrible movie or a space vampire cult classic depending on who you ask

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  • 🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2026

    RLM is doing a best of the worst which includes Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce (1985), a film in which all of patrick stewart's blood pours out of his head and becomes a hot goth babe

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  • Erin Snyder @erinlsnyder.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 4, 2025

    I watched Lifeforce, and it is, indeed, a batshit crazy weird movie. Picture a reimagined Plan 9 From Outer Space filled with sequences borrowed from a bunch of successful genre movies made in the late 70's and early 80's.

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  • allfrightner @allflicker.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2026

    You can tell a lot about a movie from how it portrays two men kissing #Lifeforce #FrightClub #filmsky #scifi 

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  • alternate ending @jamiroqueer.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2026

    the weekend horror marathon continues with LIFEFORCE, the most bizarro movie Tobe Hooper made for Cannon Films if you ask me. This got added to the pile as the Patrick Stewart tribute, though GREEN ROOM would of course be a phenomenal choice

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  • H. J. C. @thebisexualfury.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    Dr. Armstrong Lifeforce (1985) (This whole film is underrated)

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  • S A M @comicnerdsam.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    One of the more awesome developments in my life as of late is my sister getting into genre film and us strengthening our bond over movies like Lifeforce and The Guyver

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  • Jandri🔞 @jandri.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2026

    This movie is Lifeforce (1985) for people who don't know what sex is

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  • Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.meBluesky · Aug 20, 2025

    Tonight’s movie was 1985’s LIFEFORCE from @arrowvideo.bsky.social. It was… really great actually? Totally bananas, a bizarro R-rated Doctor Who/Quatermass mash-up. For a film made in 1985 it sure looks like it was made in 1975 (just with better SFX). Great 4K restoration.

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  • Tales From the Cryptlette @manofthetown.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2026

    He finally shows up in my version of the film. #Frightclub #Lifeforce #PatrickStewart

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  • Terroresin82 @taliesin82.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2026

    I love that Gene Siskel referred to this movie as one of his guilty pleasures. #FrightClub #Lifeforce

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  • Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2026

    I'm re-watching Lifeforce on the Criterion Channel, which describes the movie as "a mind-scrambling alien-zombie-vampire sextravaganza unlike any other horror film of the 1980s." #FrightClub

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  • Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2026

    Lifeforce is batshit and totally rules btw, it's such a treat when I find a movie I should've been rewatching since high school. I think the title always made me assume it was quiet and cerebral. Nope!

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  • film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2025

    In view of damp conditions, all UK readers have my permission to forward this text to their employer and take the day off on condition that they spend it watching completely bonkers British sci-fi film Lifeforce on tptvencore.co.uk @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social film-authority.com/2025/02/04/l...

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  • Reel Obscure Podcast @reelobscurepod.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 5, 2026

    Tomorrow, be here for my take on the world's worst movie, LIFEFORCE! youtube.com/@reelobscure

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  • DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 27, 2025

    Off to see Lifeforce at the BFI tonight. I still have the movie tie-in edition of the Colin Wilson novel. youtu.be/B18wv1oAJGc?...

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  • Sprockey 🔞 (Commissions Full- Check again soon!) @sprockey.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2025

    Watching this movie Lifeforce it's got the BBB stamp of approval (Boobs Bush Butt)

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  • Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2025

    Lifeforce in 4K is crazy to me. Absolutely no shade to the VFX which are in fact quite good but that movie is the most "made to be watched in pan and scan on Space Channel at midnight" movie to ever exist

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  • Andrew Warren @aawarren.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2025

    I’ll die on the hill that Lifeforce is the ultimate 80s cult horror film!

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