Friday, October 26, 2007

Liquid Sky

     Liquid Sky is without a doubt the most colorful movie I've ever seen. Besides being shot in what I like to call "psychedeliscope", it also cashed in on the whole luridly multicolored non-gender-specific early 1980s. 

      Margaret is a fashion model and lives in a penthouse in Manhattan. She also lives with Adrian, her heroin-pushing lesbian girlfriend. One day, an alien spacecraft the size of a dinner plate lands on their penthouse roof searching for heroin but instead finds something better. That something is a chemical reaction in the brain produced during orgasm that is similar in chemical composition to heroin. Unfortunately, it kills its victims when it shoots out of their heads in the form of glass-like arrows when they reach orgasm. 

      This alien has chosen Margaret as its tool to obtain this chemical.  I guess one would naturally expect a sexy fashion model would have many orgasms, even though she never does because she's either being raped or somehow having sex that she's absolutely not into. 

     Since everyone she has sex with keeps dying, she decides to have sex with her biggest fashion rival Jimmy, who seems oddly feminine (even for the eighties). This is probably because actress Anne Carlisle plays the roles of both Margaret and Jimmy. 

      This film is so bizarrely colored that one must assume that it was only meant to be watched on some really strong LSD, I know I did. From the unbelievable makeup (even for the eighties) to the rainbow vision that results from seeing things from the aliens' perspective. 

      Take more color than most televisions can handle and an electronic soundtrack that could literally drive someone insane and you get one of the most notorious movies of the whole cult film phenomenon. In fact, the director Slava Tsukerman was reportedly exiled from Russia for making weird movies.  I don't doubt that this could very well be true.

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