Directed by Slava Tsukerman | USA | 118 mins

Part of our Defiant Women Series. 

A cult classic and the most financially successful independent film of 1983, this bizarre tale of the New York new wave fashion synthpunk night scene features Anne Carlisle in the dual role of bisexual model Margaret and her arch rival Jimmy. Carlisle also wrote the film's story, wherein Margaret discovers she can kill people by having sex with them, and uses this newfound ability to cut a swath of death through her social circle of phonies, assholes, and bigots. Could this strange power have anything to do with the aliens living on the roof of Margaret's apartment? Having never experienced an orgasm, Margaret uses the orgasms of those who see her only as a sex object against them in this visually inventive indie darling was made completely outside the standard systems of filmmaking by Russian director Slava Tsukerman and is a beloved midnight movie to this day.

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