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Bookmark this pageLiquid Sky (1982)
Director: Slava Tsukerman
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From Time Out Film Guide
Film-maker Tsukerman's personal comment on, er, the State of Western Man, magnified through a thoroughly unpleasant bunch of New York junkies, poseurs and twits. Claiming to subvert a host of Hollywood verities, Tsukerman unleashes a parasitic alien being on the New York smack'n'sex demi-monde. Junkies and sex fiends start dropping like flies, and not even the Bruno Ganz-alike scientist can stop the voracious bug. Tsukerman stops short of his original intention of offing the whole cast, allowing for an extraordinary fairy-tale ascension at the end, but his aim of highlighting social malaise gets happily mislaid in a bizarre, often hilarious melee of weird drugs, weird sex and off-the-wall camp SF. Close Encounters for acid casualties.Author: JG
Cast & crew
Director: Slava Tsukerman
Producer: Slava Tsukerman
Cast: Anne Carlisle, Paula E Sheppard, Bob Brady, Susan Doukas, Elaine C Grove, Otto von Wernherr full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 112 mins
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