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From the liner notes

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.

Review

Flying saucers, fatal orgasms, rampant androgyny and relentless nihilism make Liquid Sky a most original and hallucinatory film. Coauthor Carlisle stars in dual roles as Jimmy, a snarling junkie, and Margaret, his female nemesis, a languid model with an unusual kiss of death. Perched atop Margaret's penthouse terrace are mite-sized aliens who crave the sensation of a heroin rush, which, it seems, is duplicated organically during human orgasm. A stunning cultural collage that offers an alien's-eye view of Manhattan's lurid clubs, majestic skyline and jaded populace.