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| “ | The web of destiny carries your blood and soul back to the genesis of my lifeform. | „ |
| ~ The Space Girl |
The Space Girl, also known as the female space vampire, is the main antagonist of the 1985 sci-fi/horror film Lifeforce.
She was portrayed by Mathilda May.
Biography[]
Space girl and her two male consorts were discovered by the HMS Churchill, a space shuttle sent to investigate what seemed to be derelict space ship hidden in the tail of Haley's Comet. Inside the seemingly abandoned spacecraft, the European and American crew found three humanoid beings in suspended animation inside crystal coffins, along with deceased non-human forms. They then decided to bring the female and two males back to Earth. However, while returning to the planet, all communications with the Churchill ceased abruptly. A rescue shuttle was dispatched to retrieve any survivors. Finding that the crew had all perished in mysterious fire, the rescue party returned to Earth along with the three bodies.
Back in the Space Research Faculty in London, the female is scheduled to be examined first. Suddenly, she awakens from her slumber and promptly feeds on a security guard that was looking over her, draining him of his life energy and leaving a desiccated, shriveled corpse behind. Space Girl then successfully escaped from the faculty. The next day, another shriveled corpse is found on a park. The investigation is cut short when news of a survivor of the Churchill arrive: one of the escape pod of the shuttle has crashed in Texas, USA and it belongs to Col. Tom Carlsen. He is immediately taken into custody where he's interrogated and then put into observation. Back in London, the shriveled corpse of the security guard revives during the autopsy and drains one of the doctors; authorities realize that the victims of the Space Girl become vectors of infection and the situation will soon get out of control.
At night, Carlsen is visited by Space Girl during his dreams, who drains more of his energy as they have physical contact. Via hypnosis, it's stated that the female vampire has established a psychic connection with Carlsen. Using this, the investigation team, led by SAS Colonel Colin Caine, manages to track the now body-hoping vampire into Doctor Armstrong, the director of a psychic hospital. As they took the possessed doctor to London, Space Girl bursts into a new body formed by the blood of Armstrong and quickly escapes from the helicopter. As the team is forced to make a emergency landing, they realized that London is in flames, as the males vampires had unleashed a purge that destroyed most of the city and turned the vast majority of the inhabitants into life energy craving zombies. Britain's national leadership are infected or killed in the chaos. The British military surrounds the city, placing it in quarantine and preparing to use use nuclear weapons to destroy it if necessary, while Colonel Caine bravely ventures into the city to stop the vampiric outbreak on his own.
Carlsen finally corners Space Girl in an abandoned church where she is redirecting the life energy harvested and beamed into the spaceship in stationary orbit over London. Here, she revealed to Carlsen that he was one of them. Using a lead sword provided by Colonel Caine, Carlsen impales himself and Space Girl while they are intimate. Seemingly defeated, the space vampire teleports herself and Carlsen into the spaceship along with all the life energy collected, leaving Earth for good.
Trivia[]
- Lifeforce was based on the 1976 novel The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson. The film adaptation changed the properties of the titular vampires in several ways, making them much more dangerous in that the spread of their contagion was much faster.