Search results
- An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during orgasm. Aliens and opiates collide in Liquid Sky, a science fiction jaunt through New York City’s New Wave scene.
scienceonscreen.org/films/liquid-sky
People also ask
What happens in Liquid Sky based on a true story?
What is Liquid Sky based on?
Is Liquid Sky a science fiction movie?
Why did Tsukerman create Liquid Sky?
Who directed Liquid Sky?
Who created Liquid Sky?
Liquid Sky was an adaption and formation from a previous script titled "Sweet Sixteen" from Director Slava Tsukerman. After not being able to fund the script, Tsukerman knew he needed to write a new script that would be producible.
Jul 1, 2024 · A drug-dusted fantasy that explores queer identities, Liquid Sky is a true representation of the New Wave as it was in NYC in the early 80s.
- Trevor Talley
Apr 12, 2018 · The notion of underground subcultures in New York City where sex and drugs would lead to mysterious deaths seemed exactly on target when Liquid Sky was released in 1982, barely a year after AIDS...
Dec 8, 2018 · Liquid Sky matches striking visuals and sci fi plot with fluid queerness, feminism, and fashionable apathy. It’s kept alternative audiences captive with its violence and shock, but held them...
Nov 21, 2015 · Absolutely. This was 1982. “They already had AIDS, but it wasn’t that publicized,” says Tsukerman, who swears the film was conceived as science fiction.
- Marc Spitz
Apr 14, 2018 · The sci-fi Liquid Sky (1982), set in punk- and New Wave–era New York and starring the formidable Anne Carlisle in dual gender-bending roles, is a prime example. It’s often credited as a...
Aliens and opiates collide in Liquid Sky, a science fiction jaunt through New York City’s New Wave scene. Bisexual fashion model Margaret (Anne Carlisle) dreams of stardom but faces abuse from her drug-addicted rival Jimmy (also played by Carlisle).
