Liquid Sky (1982)

Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual ... See full summary »

Director:

Slava Tsukerman

Writers:

Slava Tsukerman (screenplay), Anne Carlisle (screenplay),

Stars:

Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas

7 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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

Storyline

Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model. (Both models are played by Anne Carlisle, in a dual role.) Darkly funny and thoroughly weird.

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Plot Keywords:

heroin | alien | sex | drugs | orgasm | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 April 1983 (USA)

Also Known As:

Cielo líquido

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Z Films Inc.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

112 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (TVC)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Only four members of the crew (the director, his wife, the DP and the camera operator) were Russian. Everyone else was American.

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Quotes

Margaret: Whether or not I like someone doesn't depend on what kind of genitals they have.

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Connections

Referenced in 50 Pills (2006)

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Soundtracks

"Excerpts from 'Beautiful Bend'"
By Boris Midney

User Reviews

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.