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Arrow Video bringing Lifeforce to 4K Ultra HD with new restoration

December 7, 2024 by Gary Collinson

Arrow Video is set to unleash Mathilda May’s Space Girl in 4K Ultra HD this coming February with the release of a new limited edition release of Tobe Hooper’s 1985 cult classic Lifeforce, complete with an all-new restoration of the 116-minute International Cut. When a space shuttle crew finds a mysterious spacecraft containing three human-looking […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Physical Media, Top Stories Tagged With: Frank Finlay, Lifeforce, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Peter Firth, Steve Railsback, Tobe Hooper

Sirens from Space: Species and Under The Skin

August 30, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe double bills Species and Under The Skin… The sexy siren, luring men to their inevitable doom by taking on the form of a gorgeous woman. Like cats to catnip, the men salivate their way to demise. In one corner we have Species, the tale of a scientific splicing of human and alien DNA […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Glazer, Lifeforce, Marg Helgenberger, Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Roger Donaldson, Scarlett Johansson, Species, Under the Skin

Fantastical, Flawed and Madcap: 80s British Horror Cinema

March 9, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look back at the curious case of 80s British Horror – an era of odd fusions, oddities, indulgent auteurs and flawed cult favourites… Think of those iconic periods in horror around the world. German expressionist horror of the 1920s and 30s, the Giallo boom of the 60s and 70s, British hammer horror […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Alien, An American Werewolf in London, Annabelle Lanyon, Black Rainbow, dream demon, Hellraiser, inseminoid, Lifeforce, Maryam d'Abo, the company of wolves, The Hunger, The Lair of the White Worm, xtro

Lifeforce is coming to 4K Ultra HD from Shout! Factory in May

April 29, 2022 by Gary Collinson

Here’s some great news for fans of Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce, as we’ll soon be able to enjoy the filmmaker’s 1985 Cannon Films cult classic – and the talents of French starlet Mathilda May – in full 4K glory, with Shout! Factory announcing the upcoming release of a 4K Ultra HD Collector’s Edition set this May. […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Physical Media Tagged With: cannon films, Lifeforce, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Steve Railsback, Tobe Hooper

Nine Gems from Cannon Films

January 1, 2022 by admin

Marvelous Videos presents nine gems from Cannon Films… If you grew up in the 80s, chances are you became (intentionally or unintentionally) familiar with a production company called The Cannon Group, Inc. They were responsible for an influx of action pictures throughout the 1980s that featured to some of the most iconic action heroes we […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Random Videos, Red Stewart Tagged With: allan quatermain and the lost city of gold, american ninja, Bloodsport, breakin', cannon films, Cyborg, Invasion USA, Lifeforce, Marvelous Videos, over the top, Runaway Train

Marvelous Sci-Fi Horror Movies for Alien Lovers

August 2, 2021 by Red Stewart

Marvelous Videos presents alien creature features galore…. Ridley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s Aliens were truly something special. They not only took the preexisting concept of an extraterrestrial threat and made it fresh, but they also made it iconic. This was thanks, in large part, to the titular antagonist(s)- the xenomorph. Designed by H. R. Giger and played […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Random Videos, Red Stewart Tagged With: Attack the Block, Dark Star, Event Horizon, galaxy of terror, Leviathan, Life, Lifeforce, Marvelous Videos, Mimic, Pandorum, The Andromeda Strain, Underwater, xtro

October Horrors 2017 Day 28 – Lifeforce (1985)

October 28, 2017 by Graeme Robertson

Lifeforce, 1985. Directed by Tobe Hooper. Starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Melinda May, and Patrick Stewart. SYNOPSIS: A joint UK-US space mission aboard the HMS Churchill takes a strange turn when the crew stumbles upon an enormous craft hidden in the tail of Halley’s Comet, with three seemingly humanoid bodies entombed within. Contact […]

Filed Under: Graeme Robertson, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Frank Finlay, Lifeforce, Melinda May, Patrick Stewart, Peter Firth, Steve Railsback, Tobe Hooper

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