1986. A joint US-UK space mission is approaching Halley's Comet to conduct a close inspection of the famous rock. Imagine their surprise when they discover what appears to be an artificial object some 150 miles long within the vast coma that surrounds the comet itself.
Naturally, they investigate, discovering a derelict alien ship filled with dead, human-sized bat things and what appear to be three nude humans in crystal cases. There are two males and a female, but you can rest assured that it isn't the males the camera spends all its time on. The astronauts load one of the dead bat-things and the three "humans" into their own vessel and head back to Earth.
So far, so sleazy knock-off of Alien, and this does in fact have the same screenwriter as that 1979 classic: Dan O'Bannon. O'Bannon also wrote Return of the Living Dead, and the echoes between that film and this one is even more apparent than the connection to the acid-blooded xenomorph's debut.
"Echoes of other, better films" is actually a recurrent theme in Lifeforce, which leaps between SF and horror sub-genres with the deft grace of a pub crawl participant seeking their twelfth watering hole of the night. Aliens! Vampires! Gothic asylums! Zombies! Swirly whirly ghost powered nonsense! It's all an utter mess, frankly.
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