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Liquid Sky<\/strong>\u00a0 (1983)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinevista\/Sci-Fi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 112 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong sexual content throughout, brief nudity, rape, pervasive language and drug use, some violence)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Slava Tsukerman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: \u00a0Slava Tsukerman, Anne Carlisle and Nina V. Kerova\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Slava Tsukerman, Clive Smith and Brenda I. Hutchinson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Yuri Neyman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: April 15, 1983 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas, Otto von Wernherr, Bob Brady, Elaine C. Grove, Stanley Knap, Jack Adalist, Lloyd Ziff.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $1.7 million (US)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: ****<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I remember when film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert reviewed Liquid Sky<\/strong> on their show in \u201984 (the clip is available on YouTube). They both gave it a thumbs down, calling it \u201cboring\u201d and \u201cunpleasant\u201d. Thankfully, I never let negative reviews influence what I choose to see.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Liquid Sky<\/strong> looked interesting to me but alas, I knew I wouldn\u2019t get to see it at the cinema because that kind of movie never goes into wide release. It\u2019s a low-budget (made for $500,000) independent film set amidst the punk rock\/bohemian subculture in New York City. It doesn\u2019t feature any big-name stars. Sex, drugs and aliens from outer space figure prominently into the plot. It\u2019s a weird movie, the kind that never plays outside the arthouse circuit. Thanks to my alarmist parental units, I wasn\u2019t able to travel into the city alone to see these movies and there\u2019s no way either of them would have sat through the ones I wanted to see. They wouldn\u2019t have made it through five minutes of Liquid Sky<\/strong> before getting up and walking out. Thank God for VCRs. I finally got to see it in summer \u201987 and I LOVED it! It\u2019s funny, original and absolutely brilliant.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Model\/performance artist Anne Carlisle stars as Margaret, an aspiring model targeted by aliens for her active sex life. A small alien spacecraft has landed on the roof of the penthouse apartment she shares with her lover, performance artist Adrian (Sheppard) who does a number called \u201cMe and My Rhythm Box\u201d at a club the main characters frequent. They\u2019ve come to Earth in search of heroin, a drug that\u2019s plentiful on the early 80s punk rock scene in New York. However, they find something they like better. It seems the brain produces endorphins with similar properties to heroin during an orgasm. The aliens lay in wait until one of Margaret\u2019s lovers has an orgasm and extract the endorphins, killing the person in the process. This is all observed by Johann Hoffman (von Wernherr), a scientist from Germany who knows all about the aliens. He watches from an apartment across the way belonging to a lascivious woman named Sylvia (Doukas) who also happens to be the mother of Margaret\u2019s main nemesis, an androgynous model named Jimmy (also played by Carlisle).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0At first, Margaret is freaked out but comes to appreciate what\u2019s happening to her sexual partners, two of whom are rapists. At one point, she declares, \u201cI kill with my c–t.\u201d It\u2019s one of my all-time favorite movie lines. Liquid Sky<\/strong> is everything a low-budget independent movie should be. It\u2019s raw, ragged and rough. It has a shabby look and gritty feel to it, perfect for the specific subculture that constitutes this movie\u2019s setting.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The special effects are cheap-looking but still a step or two above Ed Wood\u2019s hubcap flying saucers in Plan 9 from Outer Space. The score consists of a series of synthesizer music pieces which give the movie an eerie feeling. The acting, although amateurish, is very good for this type of movie. Carlisle does a great job in her dual role. I LOVE that she plays both genders. It\u2019s put together in a rather slapdash manner. It has none of the polish and sheen of a Hollywood production which is precisely the point. All the things that would ordinarily make for a bad movie work in Liquid Sky<\/strong>\u2019s favor.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Independent filmmakers like Slava Tsukerman, who directed, co-wrote the script AND helped compose the score, have more creative leeway than the ones working for major studios. There\u2019s no way any major studio would touch a movie like Liquid Sky<\/strong>. It\u2019s too strange for mainstream audiences. Me, I LOVE that it\u2019s so strange. It\u2019s the kind of movie you see at a small downtown theater at midnight. It occupies the same realm as Repo Man and The Brother from Another Planet. Oh, it\u2019s dated, that\u2019s for sure. The clothes and interior decors scream early 80s boho-punk culture, not to mention the free-wheeling sex and drug use common in the pre-AIDS era. I can\u2019t praise Liquid Sky<\/strong> enough. The storyline is very original and that counts for a lot. I highly recommend it for connoisseurs of cult flicks and weird movies.<\/p>\r\n Liquid Sky\u00a0 (1983)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinevista\/Sci-Fi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 112 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong sexual content throughout, brief nudity, rape, pervasive language and drug use, some violence)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Slava Tsukerman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: \u00a0Slava Tsukerman, Anne Carlisle and Nina V. Kerova\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Slava Tsukerman, Clive Smith and Brenda I. Hutchinson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Yuri Neyman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: April 15, 1983 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Anne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cool-cult-flicks","category-weird-ones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Liquid-Sky-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Liquid-Sky-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C890&ssl=1\")
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