10 80s Movie Hidden Gems You Can Watch On Netflix

If the creatures from another dimension in From Beyond aren't quite your thing when it comes to 1980s horror films, Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce offers something different: a sexy, naked vampire from outer space, prowling the streets of London looking for fresh victims to devour the life force of anyone who gets in her way.

While Lifeforce isn't a direct adaptation of Lovecraft as From Beyond was, it's nevertheless cut from the same horror cloth, adapted from Colin Wilson's Lovecraftian novel The Space Vampires by Dan O'Bannon (writer of Alien) and Don Jakoby. Astronauts discover three humanoids in suspended animation on a strange craft and bring them back to earth, leading to the inevitable (and silly) carnage as London descends into the apocalypse.

Critics didn't know what to make of Lifeforce when it first came out - there are few other horror films out there which are so uniquely bizarre. But Lifeforce has garnered a cult following since its release, and when you delve into it and witness the special effects, design work and quirky script for yourself it's easy to see why.

Director Tobe Hooper might be best known to horror fans for his earlier films The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist, but it's Lifeforce which remains the real hidden gem of his cinematic output from the 1980s.