The joint US/British space shuttle Churchill is sent to observe Halley’s Comet under the command of Colonel Tom Carlsen (Steve Railsback).
While investigating the comet, Carlsen and his team find the naked forms of three humanoid life forms encased in crystal coffin-like containers – one of them a beautiful young female (Mathilda May) – and return them to the Churchill.
Meanwhile, the European Space Research Centre in London loses contact with the shuttle and sends the shuttle Columbia to investigate. They find the crew dead, the Churchill gutted by fire, and an escape pod missing.
When the humanoids are taken back to Earth, Dr Hans Fallada (Frank Finlay) and his team discover they are space vampires who drain the life force from their victims, transforming them into zombies.
Soon, all of London is reeling, and NATO forces threaten to blow the city to smithereens to save the Earth. Meanwhile, the escape pod from the Churchill is recovered in the USA and is found to contain Colonel Tom Carlsen, who claims to be in telepathic contact with the missing female alien.
Based on the Colin WIlson novel Space Vampires, the $25 million film combines elements of such low-budget classics as Planet of the Vampires(1965) and Quatermass and The Pit (1967).
Colonel Tom Carlsen
Steve Railsback Caine
Peter Firth Dr Hans Fallada
Frank Finlay Space Girl
Mathilda May Dr Armstrong
Patrick Stewart Bukovsky
Michael Gothard Derebridge
Nicholas Ball Sir Percy
Aubrey Morris Ellen
Nancy Paul Lamson
John Hallam 1st Vampire
Chris Jagger 2nd Vampire
Bill Malin Pathologist
Jerome Willis Physician
Derek Benfield Metallurgist
John Woodnutt Minister
John Forbes-Robertson Prime Minister
Peter Porteous Prime Minister’s Secretary
Katherine Schofield Rawlings
Jamie Roberts Kelly
Chris Sullivan Police Surgeon
Gary Hildreth Colonel
John Golightly Colonel’s Aide
William Lindsay Ned Price
Sidney Livingstone Sykes
Ken Parry
Director
Tobe Hooper
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Meanwhile, the European Space Research Centre in London loses contact with the shuttle and sends the shuttle Columbia to investigate. They find the crew dead, the Churchill gutted by fire, and an escape pod missing.
Colonel Tom Carlsen
Bukovsky
Pathologist
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