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 enlarge | Director: Slava Tsukerman
Actors: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas, Otto Von Wernherr, Bob Brady
Studio: Telavista
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 19115
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 114
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: 56833
ISBN: 6305660328
UPC: 698140568339
EAN: 9786305660323
ASIN: 6305660328
Theatrical Release Date: April 15, 1983
Release Date: February 15, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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This 1983 science fiction oddity, set in the subterranean world of heroin addicts, performance artists, and androgynous models in New York's East Village, became a staple of the midnight movie circuit and college campus film societies. A tiny UFO lands on the roof of a grungy penthouse apartment inhabited by androgynous model Anne Carlisle and her drug-dealing lover Paula E. Sheppard (the former child star of Alice, Sweet Alice). As explained with deadpan gravity by hilariously naive alien hunter Otto Von Wernherr, the UFOs congregate in areas of intense heroin concentration and feed off the highs of addicts. This alien has found a better high: orgasms. Russian émigré Slava Tsukerman's punk sci-fi feature takes the alien in alienation seriously, charting the mental disintegration of Carlisle as every sexual partner dies in climax and she turns herself into a heroine-chic angel of death. Easily the strangest to come out of the New York indie explosion of the early '80s, this low budget classic is talky and overlong at almost two hours, but remains an imaginative use of bargain-basement effects (heat aura photography, stop motion animation) for a tale of a most unusual alien encounter. Tsukerman co-composed the minimalist electronic score (in the Laurie Anderson vein). Carlisle, who cowrote the film, also appears as a surly gay male model. --Sean Axmaker
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This 1983 science fiction oddity, set in the subterranean world of heroin addicts, performance artists, and androgynous models in New York's East Village, became a staple of the midnight movie circuit and college campus film societies. A tiny UFO lands o
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 LIQUID SKY October 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
'LIQUID SKY' is one of the most irritating, weird and oddly watchable movies ever made. Centered around the underground world of Margaret played by Anne Carlisle, a heroin-soaked fashion model but fashions more suited to Barnum @ Bailey than Park Avenue. Heroin hungry aliens in a pie-plate sized saucer land on Margarets rooftop because the aliens have discovered a heroin-like substance is secreted in the brain at the point of orgasm and Margaret unknowingly dispatches a few donors to the aliens thirst. Each victim is left with a crystal obelisk imbedded deep into their skull-the meaning of the obelisk? Who knows? But in this movie-you just accept it.
Margaret shares her apartment with a vile, foul-mouthed gnome played by Paula Sheppard who is a heroin-pusher and a bizzaro performance artist who performs a rant about the joys of her "rhythm box".
An Alien chasing German scientist arrives by plane in NYC to stake out the activities on Margarets rooftop. How he tracked the aliens in Ny from Germany is never explained. He finds a willing assistant in a Jewish matron who lives across from Margarets apartment building. In one of the most amusing scenes the woman phones in a take-out order from a Chinese restaurant and she orders every item from column A and column B as long as the items contain shrimp.
Margaret soon catches on to the demise of her sex partners and begins to seek revenge on her tormentors including a rapist and a gay fashion model named Jimmy also acted by Anne Carlisle and during a fashion shoot in her apartment she performs a "service" for Jimmy and of course Jimmy ends up with the crystal obelisk in his head. She wanders onto her rooftop more heroin soaked than usual and is sucked into the aliens saucer which then takes off in search of a new supply of heroin.
The film is so heroin obsessed that it pictures the Empire State Building with its reed-thin radio antenna, looking like a humongous hypodermic needle.
This film is definetly not for everyone but if you have a taste for the unusual and yes, very strange and have a lot of patience, you may find the movie worth watching..........but it is bizarre!
 delay February 12, 2008
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I,m from Montevideo, Uruguay, today is February 12th and the DVD is still on the way (????), I payed it last week but I don't get it yet.
Punk rockers and UFOs December 3, 2007
A very quirky movie about the punk rock scene in New York in the 80s. A flying saucer thrown in for good measure.
 wonderfully special and brave still April 6, 2007
this film is gripping and stunning. the director made some very brave choices and manages with the few effects and little finance he had to create an intense experience. in the end it's all up to one's fantasy and imagination and not the budget!!
 Wha? huh? oh. March 27, 2007
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Other reviews for this movie led me to believe that it was going to be something amazing, something I have never seen before, something that I would either love or hate. It was none of these things. It was weird, that's for sure, but it was hardly interesting. The soundtrack alone was enough to make me want to watch the movie muted. But then all I would have been left with would have been the visuals, and I couldn't do that to myself. The lens tricks were disorienting and the color scheme was simply offensive, though I suppose I understand what they were trying to do with the wacky makeup. If I had to pick something that WAS interesting about this movie, it would be the scene in which the two characters, one male, one female, but both played by the same actress, square off in a sexually charged argument before the female character disapears below frame and makes the male character "die" in the Victorian and literal sense of the word. But this is only interesting because it's the same actress playing both parts. Otherwise, it would have been just more of the same psuedo-philosophical nonsense about what is beauty, what is fame, what is sex, blah, blah, blah...
The one guy does look a lot like Norm McDonald, though. That was kinda funny. Particularly when he's feining for more heroin.
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