Liquid Sky (1982)

Director:

Slava Tsukerman

Writers:

Slava Tsukerman (screenplay) &
Anne Carlisle (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

15 April 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New...

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Heroin | Dual Role | Drugs | New York

Awards:

7 wins

Cast

Anne Carlisle	...	Margaret and Jimmy
Paula E. Sheppard	...	Adrian
Susan Doukas	...	Sylvia
Otto von Wernherr	...	Johann
Bob Brady	...	Owen
Elaine C. Grove	...	Katherine
Stanley Knapp	...	Paul (as Stanley Knap)
Jack Adalist	...	Vincent
Lloyd Ziff	...	Lester
Harry Lum	...	Deliveryman
Roy MacArthur	...	Jack
Sara Carlisle	...	Nellie
Nina V. Kerova	...	Designer
Alan Preston	...	Photographer
Christine Hatfull	...	Hair Stylist

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (TVC)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:R | Finland:K-18 | France:-16 | UK:18 | USA:R | Norway:18 (video premiere) (1984) | Norway:(Banned) (1983-2003) (cinema release)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Z Films Inc.

Trivia:

A rarity; filmed in America by a completely Russian Production team.

Quotes:

Sylvia: That's really quite a world that you've shown me. German scientists are as tall as the Empire State Building, and aliens are as big as jumbo shrimp.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Fifty Pills (2006)

Soundtrack:

Laurel Waltz

Underground Sci-Fi

"Liquid Sky" (1982 - 114 minutes), film written, produced and directed by the Russian director Slava Tsukerman, can be considered a classic underground cinema full of fantastic realism. Liquid Sky means "heroin" in the New York slang of that time. This is a scientific fiction movie whose scene is the world of the fashion and the heavy drugs in Manhattan.

The plot seems comic but the result is surprising: a flying saucer lands on the penthouse's roof of a famous model called Margareth [the actress Anne Carlisle, who also interprets the androgynous model Jimmy]. A very small alien creature hidden in a spaceship of the size and format of a little signature TV antenna, captures the energies of the place, earning force through a substance produced in the human brain at the moment of orgasm. So, the extraterrestrial exterminates one by one, the partners of the model. These events are followed by a German astrophysicist that also researches Ufology. The film presents a savage sense of humor and an elaborated visual technique through blown up colors, fluorescent makeup, melting forms, many neon and ultraviolet lights.