Halley's Comet Vampires are the main antagonists of the 1985 sci-fi/horror film Lifeforce.
When a space mission involving American and British astronauts encounters an alien craft in the tail of Halley's Comet, the humanoids within are brought aboard the shuttle. Back on Earth, one of the extraterrestrials, who appears to be a gorgeous woman, proceeds to suck the life force out of various Londoners, turning the town into a city of roaming half-dead people. When Tom Carlsen, a surviving astronaut, realizes what is happening, he sets out to stop the ruthless alien presence.
Appearance
Halley's Comet Vampires appear as humans. Their true forms are on the ship and dessicated. When one of the vampires are stabbed with a sword it reverts to its normal form as it dies in a huge energy release.
Powers and Abilities
Halley's Comet Vampires possess the following powers and abilities:
- Shapechanging
- Sucks peoples soul energy turning them into dessicated corpses which come back to life and suck the souls of other people to regenerate.
Fate
Halley's Comet Vampires are all killed in the film. Two on screen, one off screen. The girl is killed when Tom Carlsen stabs himself and her during a naked embrace.
Trivia
- Tobe Hooper once revealed that in the early stages of shooting they waxed Mathilda May's pubic hair off completely thinking it would make her look less nude. It didn't.
- Tobe Hooper came up with the idea of using Halley's Comet in the screenplay
- The model for the alien spaceship was an artichoke.
- Tobe Hooper nicknamed the victims of the space vampires "the walking shrivelled".
- Mathilda May (Space Girl) has only seven minutes of screen time. Most of these scenes she plays totally nude, while in some she is covered only by a diaphanous robe . By contrast, due to censorship rules that forbade full male nudity, Chris Jagger and Bill Malin (the male vampires) had to be filmed wearing flesh-colored socks over their genitals, in case they were inadvertently picked up by cameras (the socks can be seen in a few scenes by freeze-framing and then advancing through them).
- This was promoted and filmed under the title "The Space Vampires" (the title of Colin Wilson's novel).
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