Ranking Every Tobe Hooper Film From Worst To Best
3. Lifeforce
There's a reason why Tobe Hooper stuck to indie projects from the '90s onward, and it's called Lifeforce.
After making a name for himself with Texas Chainsaw and Poltergeist, Hooper was handed a beefy budget to bring Colin Wilson's 1976 novel The Space Vampires to the big screen, and the movie tanked big time.
It's a shame because Lifeforce is, at worst, a guilty pleasure, and at best the most original vampire movie to come out of the '80s.
The scenes of an apocalyptic London are not to be missed, but there's more going on than lavish doomsday visuals. Lifeforce is a thinking man's film that effortless straddles the divide between two genres and looks stylish doing it.