A new standard for the bizarre
“Liquid Sky,” which will start tomorrow at the Academy, sets a new standard for the bizarre. Its heroes and villains are the punks, pushers and assorted nasties who occupy Manhattan’s sex and drugs New Wave scene. It takes a while but gradually it becomes obvious that this odyssey into alientation is really a black comedy. It is heavily disguised at first by a vicious rape and lots of snarls and curled
lips. But what else is there to make of a story about an alien in a U.F.O. who camps outside a pusher’s apartment and kills everyone in sight who has an orgasm? It just so happens that all its victims, men and women, are sexual partners of the same person, Margaret, who not unnaturally comes to believe someone out there is watching over her interests and this is the prince she has been searching for.
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Press, 25 October 1984, Page 22
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