Like Waters' Female Trouble!

This might seem like a bizarre comparison, but I just realized that this film is similar to John Waters' Female Trouble. They are unlike in most ways. Here is an excerpt from a review of Lifeforce: "When you think that the movie couldn't possibly become more demented, that it was already as nutty as anything could possibly be, it outdoes itself ... "Lifeforce" elevates craziness to an art form."

While Female Trouble (1974) is low budget, it also elevates craziness to an art form. You go from one crazy scene to another, and it gets crazier and crazier. Yet, at least for me, it's fun. Never boring. The dialogue is so funny that many people can recite it from beginning to end.

The critic Oliver Harper says Lifeforce could not be made today. Studios wouldn't be willing to take so many chances on a movie. I wonder if the same could be said of Female Trouble. We have reached a place where movie making is entirely a corporate activity, and "the bottom line" controls everything. Not that there's no creativity, but the studios are not willing to take big financial chances.


"Extremism in the pursuit of moderation is no vice."