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Jan 28, 2021 · Lifeforce, at $22.5 million is the most lavish production to date from Cannon Films. The special effects were done by Apogee, Inc., and its complement of master craftsmen. Tobe Hooper, the maestro of reality where none exists, is director.
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Nov 13, 2014 · Loosely based on the novel The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson, Lifeforce sees a group of British and American astronauts (aboard a space shuttle patriotically called Churchill) head into the tail...
Jun 6, 2013 · Sullivan tells Hooper that special effects artist John Dykstra claims to have designed the space vampires’ spaceship modeled on an artichoke. “If John said that,” says Hooper, “I’ve ...
The film marked the fourth project to feature special effects produced by Academy Award winner John Dykstra, who in 1986 was granted with the "Caixa Catalunya Award for Best Special Effects" in the Sitges Film Festival (located in Spain) for his special effects work in Lifeforce.
Oct 1, 2020 · Looking back all these years later, however, and Lifeforce has had its reputation rightly redeemed. Now seen as one of the last great movies to be shot on 70mm, and a true gem of the Cannon Films catalogue, Hooper’s ambitious sci-fi thriller undoubtedly altered the scope for digital special effects to progress into the Nineties and beyond…
The script is painful, the special effects are dated, the story is opaque, and the editing haphazard, but it all comes together in a delicious stew of gonzo alien sci-fi centered around a beguiling, naked she-witch that was the stuff of every 80s teen's dreams.
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Mar 21, 2013 · From a technical standpoint, the movie is never less than impressive thanks to the inspired special effects courtesy of the legendary John Dykstra–even though some of them may look a little cartoonish today, they oddly help contribute to the hallucinatory nature of the proceedings.
