10 Great Shapeshifter Horror Movies You May Have Missed
4. Lifeforce
Tobe Hooper is an icon of the horror genre, thanks to his work directing movies like Poltergeist and the first two Texas Chainsaw Massacres. He also made a film called Crocodile which, as you'd expect, was about a big crocodile.
In 1985, one year after Poltergeist, Hooper brought the world Lifeforce, adapted from a Colin Watson novel called The Space Vampires, which is a much more useful title for decoding what the film is actually about.
A group of astronauts investigate a mysterious spaceship and find three tanks, each one containing the body of a humanoid alien. Once the tanks are returned to Earth, the aliens awaken and go about draining the energy of every single person they come across.
The intergalactic vamps also have the ability to alter how they look, just in case they weren't frightening enough.
Though not a masterpiece by any stretch, Lifeforce is a great guilty pleasure movie that has amassed quite the cult following in recent years. If you're a fan of Hooper's work but don't fancy watching someone get bludgeoned to death with a hammer, this is the movie for you.