Stuff To Buy - Lifeforce On Blu-Ray

Shout! Factory is releasing Lifeforce (1985) on Blu-Ray next week. For those unfamiliar with the film, it's from Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) as part of a three picture deal he had with Cannon (which also saw him make Chainsaw 2 and a remake of Invaders From Mars). It takes place in the near future (at least, the near future as far as 1985 is concerned). An expedition to Haley's Comet finds a massive alien spacecraft in the tail. Three space vampires are brought back to Earth (London to be specific) and start to infect humans as they drain their "life force." The film has a pretty good pace, decent mid-Eighties effects, a good cast (Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Patrick Stewart, among others), an energetic (if kind of baffling) finale in a London overrun with energy vampires and Mathilda May as the lead space vampire who spends most of the movie naked. And I am looking forward to seeing her glorious...ummm...talents in HD.

Anyway, not a great movie, but a fun one.