As soon as I saw Franco Nero's beautiful blue eyes peering out from beneath his golden Space Jesus locks I knew that this movie was going to do something weird to my head.
Day of the Dead is often seen as the black sheep of George A. Romero’s original zombie trilogy. For fans and the hardcore however, Day of the Dead may be the best of the bunch.
In an alternate universe very much like our own, few people have ever heard of Jason Voorhees but everybody knows horribly burned summer camp killer Cropsy!
On paper, it sounds like any number of such films that flourished in the late 70’s-early-80’s slasher boom. In execution, there’s a reason why it’s still remembered today.
I’ve always considered Lifeforce to be a genre-fan’s slam dunk: written by Dan O’Bannon (Alien, The Return of the Living Dead) and directed by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist).
The film is all about abuse, sex, violence, corruption, and every naughty thing you ever thought might be happening behind the closed doors of small town America.
