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Initial guess: Outland. But I have a funny feeling you are trying to trick me.

Hrmm. Lifeforce?

Space Cowboys

2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010 would be too easy.

Mission to Mars? Event Horizon?

That's *definitely* Camelot. I know it.

Third clue is up. Camelot, you say?

D'oh. Ok, maybe it's Three Men and a Little Lady.

I ahve a feeling that everyone except Chuck is just going to be saying "Huh?" at the end of this one.

Is it that Time-Something movie with Billy Connolly that I didn't like very much and I think it caused Maggie to pass out?

No, that can't be it. I don't know what it is.

Okay this is LifeForce. I suspected it might be in image 1, but I wasn't sure if it was Outland or not, which also has long corrugated hallways with floor-level fluourescent lighting and folks in spacesuits.

Image 2 didn't remind me of either movie.

The sword on the altar in image 3 ties it quite certainly as LifeForce, one of James' old faves, with the very lovely (and very naked) Mathilda May. It was this movie in fact that typecast Mathilda May as "naked person" and made it hard for her to get roles in movies where she wasn't called upon to be in the buff.

Fourth image: well yeah, at this point I already knew it was lifeforce. James, you should have uploaded a pic of Patrick Stewart... that would REALLY have messed people up.

"People" being not you. I had no idea that spacesuit pic would give it away so quickly for you.

But, as I suspect no one else has even seen this film, I'll throw up the remaining pictures. This was a bad film choice on my part: nealry impossible to fool you on, nearly impossible for other people to get.

So, anyhow.

Lifeforce is one of the best bad movies out there. Pretty decent FX for the time. It's hokey, it's got zombie/vampire/aliens. It's got Patrick Stewart (who is actually in that 4th picture, lying down). It's got all sorts of undertones. Er, and overtones. And, yes, it has naked Mathilda May which was a shock to both me and my father when he took me to see it in the theatre in the year of its release. Heck, I was 18, but it was still awkward.

Anyhow, Mathilda May's facial expressions make you feel like she actually could vacuum up your lifeforce right through the screen.

I messed up. I had originally meant to include among the images one of the guard on the phone as Ms. May is about to walk by and her shadow is cast (in profile, very orchestrated) on the wall behind him. Yikes, even her shadow was PG-13.

...Patrick Stewart (who is actually in that 4th picture, lying down)...

Ah, so he is. I just can't recognize him in an image this small and from this angle. Silly me.

LifeForce was sexually perverse in a number of ways, especially for the era in which it was produced. The vampire queen is bisexual, then there's the masochist nurse who wants to be beaten up, the voyeur who wants to stick around and watch, faux-effiminate Patrick Stewart possessed by the vampire queen, lots of nudity, and the way in which the vampire queen lures her victims. Typical sexually frustrated geek sci-fi writer type stuff.

I was convinced after seeing all these pictures that I had never seen this movie. After reading the last couple posts, I realized that this was the first movie I ever rented. A friend and I got it from a local convenience store and watched it one afternoon. It's been so long that I really only remember movies final couple scenes.

"I wasn't sure if it was Outland or not, which also has long corrugated hallways with floor-level fluourescent lighting and folks in spacesuits"

As opposed to the four movies he can name which have corrugated hallways with mid-level fluourescent lighting, and the six that have corrugated hallways with eye-level fluourescent lighting. Don't even get him started on the non-corrugated hallways.

Is there really any hope of ever fooling Chuck if he's actually seen the film?

Oh heck, I've been fooled lots of times. I had a rough time with Pulp Fiction, Jaws, Home Alone, and Soylent Green as I recall. I needed a lot of pictures for all of those... and I did positively dismal on the Christmas special.

Thanks for the vote of confidence though! :-)