This year’s The Mummy reboot shares a surprising amount with the 1985 sci-fi horror classic, Lifeforce…
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NB: The following contains spoilers for 2017s The Mummy and 1985s Lifeforce.
A modernMummyhad to have scale, spectacle and, perhaps most importantly of all, franchise-able longevity.
The plot ofLifeforceis draped in a sci-fi dressing gown, but its broadly the same.
A British space mission to the tail of Halleys Comet leads to the discovery of a hidden alien ship.
Fortunately, theres a hero waiting in the wings to save the day.
In the original novel, the space vampires are simply found in an asteroid field.
What Universal might not have reckoned on wasThe Mummys fortunes at the box office.
In 1985,Lifeforcehad a similarly dismal time of things.
It was hardly the blockbuster that Cannon Films had presumably hoped from its considerable investment.
In time, of course,Lifeforcewould become regarded in some quarters as a work of camp genius.
Where else could you see a pre-Star Trek: TNGPatrick Stewart possessed by a female alien?
(I am the feminine in your mind, Carlsen!)
Still, there are at least a few moments of true, who signed off on this madness.
Take, for example, Russell Crowes stunningly bad turn as the maniacal alter-ego, Mr. Hyde.
Im offerin you a partnership!
Mr Hyde says, in a truly avant garde interpretation of a Cockney accent.
The ladeez will love us!
Someone give that guy an Oscar, already.
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