Product Details

• Actors: Cotter Smith, Deirdre O'Connell, Robert Wisdom, Ryan Phillippe, Raoul O'Connell
• Directors: Mark H. Baker
• Writers: Mark H. Baker
• Producers: Mark H. Baker, Cindy Gardner, Madelyn Curtis, Rick Baer, Tony Gardner
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lions Gate
• VHS Release Date: September 24, 1996
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304153627
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #223,819 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars LIFEFORM: An Invasion Works Both Ways, February 1, 2003

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Martin Asiner (jersey city, nj United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lifeform [VHS] (VHS Tape)

LIFEFORM is one of the best if not underappreciated alien attacks earth movies ever filmed. Director Mark Baker has borrowed liberally from THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, ALIEN, and other films that have as its basis the theme of a hostile, mobile, and agile alien creature in deadly competition with human beings. Most of the actors, with the exception of Cotter Smith and Ryan Phillipe, are unknown, yet the acting is of a uniformly high level. The fears of both scientist and inexperienced soldier are palpable. What the creature feels is by implication more directed and except for a brief expression of what looks like happiness on its alien face at the end, it goes about its business of survival in a way that punctuates an earlier claim by one of the scientists that it was preprogrammed on a DNA level to survive even in a hostile environment like the earth.

The plot involves a Mars exploratory craft that returns to earth carrying an incubated life form that soon hatches to carry out some undetermined purpose. What this purpose is the creature does not make clear. At one time is is a brutally effective killer, but at another time it confronts the female lead in a scene that brings to mind Sigourney Weaver's face to face encounter with her own alien, and in both cases, the creature allows the woman to survive. Much of the film deals with the standard 'let's kill it first' theme that we first saw directed against James Arness as the plantman in THE THING (1951). In this case, the claim by the scientists that we should understand what we face before resorting to violence does not ring as hysterical pacificism as it did in THE THING. What this film makes clear is that when humanity ever does confront an alien life form, either right here on earth or up there on another world, we had better look carefully at what we are pointing our weapons at before we pull the trigger.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful film !!, November 27, 2002

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Julie B. Thompson (Pembroke, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lifeform [VHS] (VHS Tape)

when I first rented this, I think about two years ago, I instantly fell in love with it. It had all the elements of a Hollywood movie: intellegent script, great acting, and exellent special effects.

The story: A viking lander sent to mars quarter century ago, misteriously lands in the mojiave dessert and a Alien lifeform escapes from it, only to end up in a military base. Like "metamorphosis: the alien factor" (1993), "The Gate" (1986), and "endless descent" (1989), this is another great movie that, for some reason, Has not yet gotten a DVD release (even though it should have, by now) This definitly made my top ten list. a must have.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Cool, March 19, 2001

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Andrew Clark Parker (Gillette, WY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lifeform [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I first saw part of this movie on the Sci-Fi Channel and was totally interested in seeing the whole thing. I watched the movie a second time when it came on the Sci-Fi Channel and was happy with the whole movie. This movie is a little slow at first, but if you take the time to watch the whole thing and enjoy it for what it is worth, then I am sure you will like it.