This pairing is a bad trip in the best way—a jagged pill chased with blood and neon. Outer Order Video throws down again with a combo that dares you to squint into the strobe light of human extinction, dressed up in punk fashion and island dread. Both films ask the same question in radically different tongues: what happens when innocence becomes lethal?
Liquid Sky (1982)
Welcome to the post-punk planet. Liquid Sky is what happens when aliens land in early-'80s downtown NYC and decide the best way to get high is to absorb the energy of human orgasms. It’s not a metaphor—it’s the actual plot, and somehow it works. Everything here is weaponized: fashion, gender, sex, art, light.
Anne Carlisle gives an iconic dual performance, embodying androgyny, alienation, and nihilism in a world where style is both armor and trap. The visuals are pure chrome-and-dayglo. The synth score isn’t just accompaniment—it’s the heartbeat of a dying youth culture about to be devoured by Reaganomics and AIDS.
It’s avant-garde, unhinged, and aggressively beautiful. Think Fassbinder by way of MTV, if MTV had a death wish.
Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
And now we flip the switch from electric to eerie. Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s Who Can Kill a Child? is a sunlit nightmare that turns innocence into its own apocalypse. A British couple vacations to a Spanish island, only to find all the adults mysteriously gone… and the children smiling a little too widely.
This is dread on a slow simmer. It plays like The Wicker Man if the cult was a bunch of dead-eyed kids with sticks and smiles. No music cues, no gore fetishism—just the creeping realization that something ancient and merciless is playing out, and the children aren’t just symptoms, they’re the disease.
It's colonial guilt, generational sin, and loss of control wrapped in one deceptively simple package. And yes—someone eventually has to answer the film’s question.
The Pairing
Together, these films create a perverse symphony. Liquid Sky shows the future devouring itself in a synthetic orgasm. Who Can Kill a Child? shows the past come back for revenge in silence and sandals. One is loud, artificial, and hypermodern; the other, quiet, organic, and folkloric. Both are alien.
Both tell you: innocence is a lie. And sometimes, it kills.
Final Verdict:
9.5/10 – A sensory overload double bill of cosmic kink and sun-bleached horror. You're not ready. That’s the point.
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