LIQUID SKY
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| | Copyright 1982 Z Films Inc.
| | Reviewed by Andrew Borntreger on 'a long time ago'
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- Margaret - Freaky fashion model. It's her sexual partners that the aliens kill off. Vaporized in the end.
- Adrian - Another psycho woman and Margaret's lover. She likes to make up songs about everything and they're none to easy on he ears. Dissolved by the aliens.
- Jimmy - Supposedly a dude (Played by the same girl as Margaret actually.) who hates Margaret. Dissolved by the aliens.
- Johann - German scientist who has been studying the aliens. Stabbed by Margaret.
- Sylvia - Jimmy's undersexed mom.
- Owen - Margaret's old professor who has spent some time in the sack with her. Has a glass pipette stuck through his head.
- Paul - Heroin addict. Gets the old glass pipette through the head then dissolves.
- The Aliens - Little guys who look like irritated eyeballs, they feed on heroin and a chemical produced in the human brain during orgasm.
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| Few movies are specifically tailored for appeal to those on controlled substances, here's one film though. Heralded as a great work in science fiction and so on... ...well, my ass. There is no damn way this thing sits alongside Alien, Bladerunner, or The Thing. What you have is a great number of lifeless and disturbed people having sex with Margaret then dying. Aliens come to Earth looking for heroin but find that the chemicals produced by human brains during orgasm are even better. So they park their flying saucer, it's about two feet wide, on top Margaret's apartment and begin killing everyone who has sex with her. Then we have a barely understandable German scientist who is studying the aliens, at least he describes the plot to us. Throw in a crazy girlfriend and a few other weirdos to fill gaps. Margaret finally goes completely bonkers, it's difficult to find that special someone when everybody you sleep with dies, and gets vaporized. In addition, her face is always covered with smudged makeup, probably to disguise that the actress played Jimmy as well. My main problem with this movie wasn't that there are aliens. Nor that these aliens were after heroin or human brains. You just have all these dysfunctional relationships between the characters and nobody ever goes postal. Even talking to most of these people would be like getting beaten in the head with a sock full of quarters. |
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- Aliens are best represented by something which belongs in an eyedrop ad.
- Microphones make handy stethoscopes.
- Philosophy is less convincing when dispensed by a heroin addict.
- Telescopes are equipped with crosshairs. (Shoot the moon you say?)
- Some women take pride in being told they dress like a hooker.
- Junkies often mistake German scientists for police officers.
- The brain produces a chemical that tastes just like heroin during orgasm.
- Having your toes stomped doesn't hurt.
- A dozen people screaming at you to have an orgasm can be distracting.
- Don't have sex with someone if their partners mysteriously dissolve.
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- 3 mins - Is that a flying saucer or two light covers?
- 8 mins - RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST SHOES!
- 11 mins - Hey Adrian, shut the hell up! Do you make enough money to eat singing like that?
- 24 mins - What sort of goofy alien tracking telescope is that?
- 26 mins - Whoa! The "C" word! And I don't mean communist, try "see you next Tuesday." (Think about it.)
- 44 mins - Glass pippette through the brain huh? Yeah, we get that around here.
- 48 mins - Any particular reason you're sitting on a dead man's face Adrian?
- 58 mins - She's half your size Johann, kick her ass - good grief.
- 63 mins - Another guy died on top of you Margaret? Maybe you should get that thing checked.
- 84 mins - Why are you all looking for the body? You watched the um, guy I think, dissolve.
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| | Audio clips in wav format | SOUNDS | Starving actors speak out | |
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| File | Dialog |  | liquidsky1.wav
| Margaret: "Whether or not I like someone doesn't depend on what kind of genitals they have."
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| Adrian: "Margaret is an uptight WASP c**t (Word bleeped here, even I don't throw this one around.) from Connecticut."
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| Johann: "The most interesting fact we've found, these killings occured during sexual intercourse."
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| Johann explaining to Margaret about aliens, heroin, and orgasms.
| | Theme Song | Listen to a clip from the soundtrack. | |
| | Click for a larger image | IMAGES | Scenes from the movie | |
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| | Watch a scene | VIDEO | MPEG video files | |
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| Owen and Margaret were going to town when he became more lifeless than normal. Why does having a probe stuck into your brain kill you anyway? Wouldn't it just give some people a lobotomy?
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Reply #33. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Zenman
My wife and I are mad about this movie. We now live in a very rural area and are unable to find the film. We went back to the video store where we originally rented LIQUID SKY. Their copy was worn out from use. We helped by viewing the movie over 15 times. What a great flick. In this day and age when everything is formula, bang, bang, shoot to kill, it was refreshing to find a movie that we could not predict. One of the aspects of the movie that intrigued us was the sound track. Adrian's voice, what a hoot. We would laugh every time we saw the movie. WATCH OUT FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE IN SAUCERS.
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Reply #34. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Jane Doe
I stumbled on it in '83 with a boyfriend in a Denver theatre. We had no idea what we were going to see. Totally BIZARRE is the only way I can describe it. I actually was quite entertained. Twenty years later it is still on my mind - enough to do a search for it. I guess I run with the mainstream because nobody I've bothered to ask has even heard of this movie. Gosh I guess that means I'm not an "artsy" type and am just a boring average consuming middle to upper middle class American. Well gotta go get in my SUV and pick up my 'tweens from soccer practice and the mall now.........
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Reply #35. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Liz
I loved this movie just because it was different from all the rest of the stuff that was out there at the time. It is great to find a site that has other like minded people. Since I saw it I have never found any one that has ever seen the movie. I loved the colours of this movie, the movement, the clothes and the make-up. The music was different a mind trip. I have the Lp and just looking at the cover brings back great memories.
There are three types of people, those who love LS, those who don't and those who will never know what they have missed.
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Reply #36. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by motomerle
Back before in the "bad old days" before there was satellite TV in Antarctica, picking up this movie at the tape library and putting it in the lounge VCR was a sure fire way to clear the drunks out of the lounge so you could watch a movie you wanted to see without a peanut gallery.
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Reply #37. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Rob
I saw this film about three years ago and couldn't really figure out what it was that appealed to me so much. I'd really like to see it again, or own it. There's something about Liquid Sky..........
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Reply #38. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by circkle k
If you like 'Me and My rhythm box' from Liquid Sky, there is a CD out called Death Before Disco that has I Am Spoonbender (with Jimmy/Margaret) doing "My Rhythm Box Has Teeth", a cover (of sorts). Really awesome take on it, with great vocals. Very different for I Am Spoonbender too 'cuz they use a drum machine on this one i think (they have a super bad-ass drummer usually, but the drum machine fits this song perfectly- go figure). If i remember right, I think they did this cover years before the revival of this kinda stuff. Anyway it's cool.
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Reply #39. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by ordinary guy
I saw this little weird thing in '82 & felt invaded. Probably the music. Loved the time lapse street scenes in NYC. I'd heard a Russian guy did most of the filming. One of my favorite films because it is so wacko, but with relentless sound and images. Of course I loved Baraka too which is both wordless & plotless.
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Reply #40. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Mark
At some level, this film really isn't so bad. When I saw it a few years after its release, I understood it as a numbed but negative reaction to the whole arty NewWave culture of the time. Some of it is also quite beautifully shot. Unfortunately, the screenplay is underdeveloped, the dialog is terrible, and the acting is even worse. By far not the best arty/junkie/New York movie - that prize goes, of course, to _Trash_ (which I suspect inspired this film).
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