Lifeforce (1985, 67%)
Species (1995, 36%)

Another week, another Tobe Hooper movie! As it crystallized for Hooper that he’d never match Texas Chainsaw‘s impact and that 1982’s Poltergeist would be his commercial peak, the director made the most out of being alive in the ’80s and unleashed the outrageous Lifeforce, starring Mathilda May as Space Girl, aka naked comet-riding vampire come to turn the greater London population into zombies. Bizarre sci-fi/horror material with sublime special effects.

10 years later, Species took the same idea and downplayed the metaphysics and upped the titillation. It was the ’90s and Hollywood churned out R-rated mainstream sleaze on the regular, though rarely involving beautiful women spilling out of oozing cocoons or tongue-through-skull puncturings. A pleasant guilty filthy pleasure.