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Richard Rush - The Stunt Man (1980)

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Turkey Shoot UK poster (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1982)

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Lifeforce (1985)

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“'I will speak, although I know it is useless. No one here is concerned with justice. But I would like to point out a simple fact. The Nioth-Korghai, like the human race, are mortal. We of the Ubbo-Sathla have achieved a kind of immortality. Is it nothing to have discovered the secret of living forever? You will say that we have achieved it by destroying lives. That is true. But is it not also a law of nature? All living creatures are murderers. Human beings feel no compunction about killing the lower animals for meat. They even eat the flesh of newborn lambs. And the cows and the sheep eat grass, which is also alive. Dr Fallada here has studied vampirism. He will tell you that it is a basic principle of nature. If that is so, then in what way are we guilty?'

Fallada said: 'Are you denying that you destroy for pleasure?'

'No.' The voice was calm and reasonable. 'But since we have to kill to survive, is there any reason why we should not take pleasure in it?'

Carlsen was less concerned with the words than with the power that accompanied them. It surged into his consciousness like an electric current, producing a vision that brought a sense of ruthless delight. Human beings were trivial, irredeemably trivial; personal, self-obsessed, lazy, stupid, dishonest; a race of feeble-minded drifters, hardly better than imbeciles. If the law of nature was extinction of the weak, survival of the strong, then human beings were asking to be destroyed. In the essence of their being, they were victims.

Heseltine cleared his throat. 'But surely . . . cruelty springs out of weakness, not strength?' He spoke hesitantly, without conviction.

The vampire said reasonably: 'No one has a right to speak of weakness or strength who has not experienced total despair. Can you imagine what it is like to struggle for a thousand years against this possibility of extinction? After that, we saw no reason to accept death while there was still a chance of life. Do you condemn us for that?'

He was speaking to Heseltine and Fallada, but it was Jamieson who answered. He said: 'You condemn yourself. You have just said that murder is a law of nature. You intended to murder us. Is there any reason why we should not murder you?'

'If you had the power, that is what I would expect of you.’” - Colin Wilson, ‘The Space Vampires’ (1976) [p. 200, 201]