Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
- space marine
- flying saucer
- based on novel or book
- vampire
- comet
- alien
- epidemic
- halley's comet
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Steve Railsback
Col. Tom Carlsen
Peter Firth
Col. Colin Caine
Frank Finlay
Dr. Hans Fallada
Mathilda May
Space Girl
- Patrick Stewart — Dr. Armstrong
- Michael Gothard — Dr. Bukovsky
- Nicholas Ball — Roger Derebridge
- Aubrey Morris — Sir Percy Heseltine
- Nancy Paul — Ellen Donaldson
- John Hallam — Lamson
- John Keegan — Guard
- Chris Jagger — First Vampire
- Bill Malin — Second Vampire
- Derek Benfield — Physician
- Jerome Willis — Pathologist
- Directed
- Tobe Hooper
- Written
- Don Jakoby, Michael Armstrong, Dan O'Bannon, Olaf Pooley
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 763 ratings
- Studio
- Golan-Globus Productions, Easedram, London-Cannon Films, The Cannon Group
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
