Lifeforce [Soundtrack, Limited Edition]

Henry Mancini | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 17, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Soundtrack, Limited Edition
• Label: Buysoundtrax
• ASIN: B000JQV9CI
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,845 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title

2. The Discovery

3. drained

4. rescue mission

5. the vampire lives

6. Nervous Time

7. feeding time

8. wild woman

9. prelude to carlsons story

10. carlsons story

11. carlson Sleeps

12. evil visitation

13. Energy Crisis

14. Its Immense

15. Are You In There

16. Let Me Go!

17. Chain Reaction

18. Anyone For Tums

19. Horny Alien- London Burns

20. Its Martial Law

See all 46 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

This 3000 unit limited edition release of a 2CD set of music from Lifeforce, composed two legendary composers, Henry Mancini and Michael Kamen. The package contains the complete original score composed by Mancini, the additional music by Kamen, the Film Version of "Grandson of Web", in addition to the original soundtrack album. Lifeforce was the film adaptation of the novel The Space Vampires, by Colin Wilson. Director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist), took some liberties with the story to tie it in to the reappearance of Halley's Comet. A space shuttle mission investigating the comet inadvertently brings back a race of space vampires to London who seek to transform the populace into zombies. Cannon Films, felt the title Space Vampires seemed too low budget and the film was renamed Lifeforce. In 1985 when the vampire science fiction film Lifeforce was in need of a composer, the Academy Award® winner Henry Mancini seemed an unlikely choice. But when Hooper's first choice, James Horner, hot off the heels of his work with the first two Star Trek films, proved unavailable, Mancini was brought on board. Henry Mancini may best be recognized for his work with more lighthearted film fare, like Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Pink Panther film series, but earlier in his career Mancini was a member of the music department at Universal Pictures. As such he composed the scores for numerous horror and science fiction films like It Came From Outer Space, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Monolith Monsters, which led Hooper to see if Mancini was interested in revisiting the genre. Mancini composed a provocative, dramatic and dynamic orchestral score, an hour and forty minutes of music, which mostly fell victim to the cutting room floor. When Mancini did not want to go back and compose new materials for the film, itself now 20 minutes shorter, Michael Kamen was called in to fill in the musical blanks. Kamen was an up-and-coming composer, havi

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lifeforce(1985), January 27, 2011

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Jorge A. Zarco (Fresno, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lifeforce (Audio CD)

Lifeforce(1985) was a critical and commercial flop in 1985, but time has been kind to the film. Ideas from the film have been used in other sci-fi movies and TV shows. The film is based upon Colin Wilson's 1976 novel The Space Vampires. Henry Mancini's epic, loud, sweeping music score for Lifeforce is an underrated masterpiece! Mancini is the same guy who wrote the jazzy Pink Panther and Peter Gunn theme music! This CD also has the alternate music cues(composed by Michael Kamen) that were used in the shorter U.S. version of Lifeforce. Keep in mind that the tracks sound a little damaged! Mancini's Lifeforce theme music has been ripped off for video games and TV shows! Also, Tobe Hooper's movie has no connection to the Nintendo game Lifeforce(known as Salamander in Japan)! This limited edition CD is a must for music buffs. I hope more copies are made one day.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good, January 28, 2010

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lifeforce (Audio CD)

This is a good science fiction soundtrqck by the great Henry Mancini.

Like a lot of 1970s scores from the genre, this uses a full orchestra. This is fine if you like this, but contains none of the blues jazz or choral music that are the master's trademarks.

Get this. Just don't expect your typical Henry.