Lifeforce is a 1985 science fiction film directed by Tobe Hooper from a screenplay by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby, based on the 1976 novel The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson. While investigating Halley's Comet, the crew of the space shuttle Churchill finds a 150-mile long spaceship hidden in the corona of the comet. Upon entering the alien spacecraft, the crew finds hundreds of dead and shrivelled bat-like creatures and three naked humanoid bodies in suspended animation within glass coffin-like containers. The crew recovers the three aliens and begins the return trip to Earth. During the... return journey, Mission Control loses contact with the shuttle as it nears Earth and a rescue mission is sent to find out what happened on board. The rescuers find the Churchill completely gutted by fire, except for the three suspended animation cases bearing the aliens. All three are taken to the European Space Research Centre in London where they are watched over by Dr. Leonard Bukovski and Dr. Hans Fallada . Prior to an autopsy, the naked female "vampire" awakens and sucks the titular "life force" out of a guard.
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