Director: Sandy Whitelaw
None of you will ever see Lifespan, which is just fine; you probably shouldn't. Somehow a film with Klaus Kinski performing simulated cunnilingus in a Faust mask, grave robbery, Anne Frank's house, a Terry Riley soundtrack, and a conspiracy involving a method to stop the aging process adds up to way less than the sum of its parts. The film is ruined by an absurd amount of narration and the poor performance of the lead actor, not to mention the awkwardness of the writing and staging. There's a lot of elements here for a low-budget sci-fi/horror type deal like Scanners, and there's even some good Hitchcockian elements to the film (I was reminded of Rebecca), but overall it's a mess.
Kinski is supposed to have rejected a part in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark by calling the script a piece of shit - I'm not sure how he accepted this one.
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