History Film / LifeForce

* BodySurf: After her escape the female vampire starts switching from body to body to evade capture.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The vampires are stopped from harvesting the entire planet, but at a heavy cost. The entire metro-area of London is dead, and the infection may spread even further. Carlson has either somehow turned into one of the vampires, was consumed along with the other humans' life energy, or is now captive aboard the vampire's spaceship. Caine's chances of survival don't look too good with the remaining vampire zombies roaming the ruins of London. And the ship itself regenerates and returns to Halley's Comet, so it can return in another 95 years to do it all over again.]]

* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead: The two male brides are supposedly blown to bits while trying to escape. Turned out they took over the bodies of the soldiers.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Turns out that the vampire myth stems from these space "vampires", who visit Earth with Halley's Comet to suck the life energy from humans.

* TheVirus: A [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot vampire zombie]] virus.

* {{Badass}}: Col. Colin Caine. Full stop. Wandering through [[spoiler: Vampire infected London]] with the full knowledge of the danger, achieving every objective and coming out alive. Yeah, Badass.
* BigBad: Space Girl.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The vampires are stopped from harvesting even more people by the end, but at what cost? The entire population of London is doomed, and the infection may spread even further if the army can't contain it. Carlson has either somehow turned into one of the vampires, was consumed along with the other humans' life energy, or is now captive aboard the vampire's spaceship, and Caine's chances of survival don't look too good with the remaining vampire zombies roaming the ruins of London. And the ship itself regenerates and returns to Halley's Comet, so it can return in another 95 years to do it all over again]].

* FanDisservice: When space girl visits Carlson in his dreams, she proceeds to make out with him while lightning is engulfing the room and animalistic shrieks and howls can be heard all around them.

''Lifeforce'' (1985), possibly better known as the "Naked Space Vampire Movie," is--[[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs a very strange film]]. In 1985, a European Space Shuttle mission to Halley's Comet finds in the comet's tail an abandoned spacecraft with three (apparent) naked humans, two men and a woman, in suspended animation encased in glass pods. Later, after taking the pods aboard, the Shuttle goes out of contact with ground control. A rescue mission finds that all the crew are dead but the three people in the pods are still alive. The three not-really-humans are brought to Earth, whereupon they wake up, blow the hell out of the European Space Research Center, and escape. Meanwhile, the sole survivor of the shuttle's crew has returned to earth in an escape pod with a tale of terror...

* HeyItsThatGuy : If you're a fan of TV movie crime dramas/miniseries, you'll recognize Carlson as having played both Charles Manson and Ed Gein. Oh and [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Picard]] plays the director of the Asylum.

* FoeYay: Carlson is obsessed with the beautiful space vampire he is hunting, even though to [[KissOfDeath touch her means death]]. There's even a HoYay moment when he's driven to kiss her while she's [[BodySurf occupying the body]] of PatrickStewart. He later discovers the reason for his obsession is that she took the image of the perfect woman from his subconscious.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The zombie corpses are impressive, but they move unconvincingly.

* HeyItsThatGuy : If you're a fan of TV movie crime dramas/miniseries, you'll recognize Carlson as having played both Charles Manson and Ed Gein. Oh and [[StarTrek Captain Picard]] plays the director of the Asylum.

* HeyItsThatGuy : If you're a fan of TV movie crime dramas/miniseries, you'll recognize Carlson as both Charles Manson and Ed Gein. Oh and [[StarTrek Captain Picard]] plays the director of the Asylum.

* CometOfDoom

* Bad Ass: Col. Colin Caine. Full stop. Wandering through [[spoiler: Vampire infected London]] with the full knowledge of the danger, achieving every objective and coming out alive. Yeah, Badass.

* Badass: Col. Colin Caine. Full stop. Wandering through [[spoiler: Vampire infected London]] with the full knowledge of the danger, achieving every objective and coming out alive. Yeah, Badass.

* FanDisservice: When space girl visits Carlson in his dreams, she proceeds to make out with him while lightning is engulfing the room and animalistic shrieks can be heard all around them.

* GenderInvertedTrope: A gender inversion of the ''{{Dracula}}'' model where a male vampire [[VampiresAreSexGods with a couple of 'brides']] dominates weak-willed females -- here we have the beautiful Space Girl (with her two male brides) manipulating the desires of Carlson and other random men. This point has been missed by those critics who accuse the film of being misogynist.

* DownerEnding: The vampires are stopped from harvesting even more people by the end, but at what cost? The entire population of London is doomed, and the infection may spread even further if the army can't contain it. Carlson has either somehow turned into one of the vampires, was consumed along with the other humans' life energy, or is now captive aboard the vampire's spaceship, and Caine's chances of survival don't look too good with the remaining vampire zombies roaming the ruins of London. And the ship itself regenerates and returns to Halley's Comet, so it can return in another 95 years to do it all over again.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Yup, that's PatrickStewart.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting[=/=]AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The vampires assumed human form by probing the minds of the astronauts for suitable shapes. Their real forms are the hybernating bat-like creatures seen in their spacecraft, notably seen when the female vampire visits Carlson in his dreams, and when [[spoiler:the second male vampire is killed at the end.]]

* NoNameGiven: Sorry, "Space Girl" does not count.

* GenderInvertedTrope: A gender inversion of the ''{{Dracula}}'' model where a male vampire [[VampiresAreSexGods with a couple of 'brides']] dominates weak-willed females -- here we have the beautiful Space Girl (with her two male brides) using the desires of Carlson and other random men. This point has been missed by those critics who accuse the film of being misogynist.

* {{Gorn}}: [[spoiler:Patrick Stewart and another guy have their internal organs burst out rather bloodily.]]

* VoluntaryShapeshifting[=/=]AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The vampires assumed human form by probing the minds of the astronauts for [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean suitable shapes]]. Their real forms are the hybernating bat-like creatures seen in their spacecraft, notably seen when the female vampire visits Carlson in his dreams, and when [[spoiler:the second male vampire is killed at the end.]]