Blue Sunshine

1978 "Did you ever hear the words "Blue Sunshine"? Try to remember...your life may depend on it."
5.9| 1h34m| R| en| More Info
Released: 20 March 1978 Released
Producted By: Ellanby Films
Country: United States of America
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At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry is on the run. More bizarre homicides continue with alarming frequency all over town. Trying to clear his name, Jerry discovers the shocking truth...people are losing their hair and turning into violent psychopaths and the connection may be some LSD all the murderers took a decade before.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life
mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
dougdoepke Ragged around the edges, this little indie production is still pretty effective. Seems an LSD derivative has long-term effect of turning ordinary people into hairless raging killers. These episodes are truly jarring and the movie's highlight, especially when Mom turns from Donna Reed into a baldie Jack the Ripper. Director Lieberman lightens the mood with an amusing jape at disco music, which turns out to be ultimate protection against these marauding psychopaths. Plus, King looks and acts nothing like the usual movie hero as he plows glumly through his monster hunting mission. However, the pacing's uneven, while the various narrative threads sometimes dangle. Also, suspense doesn't really build despite the pregnant premise, maybe because the threads too often meander rather than build. Then too, I agree with others that the climax is too tame and fails to top the intensity of what's gone before as it should. It's like they were running out of film and had to wrap quickly.Nonetheless, the movie's highly original with a number of good touches (the real department store, the undercover narc) and real shockers when the hairpieces come off. So even if the film is one of parts rather than a polished whole, the highlights are still worth it.
utgard14 Checked it out because it was directed by Jeff Lieberman, director of a great underrated slasher called Just Before Dawn. It stars Zalman King. Yeah, the Red Shoe Diaries guy. King plays Jerry Zipkin, who is accused of murdering his friends. But it really wasn't him, it was another guy who lost his hair and went psycho due to some bad LSD (Blue Sunshine) that they all took years before. Zipkin pretty much makes every wrong decision you can possibly make and gets himself deeper and deeper into trouble. The plot is ridiculous and it's hard not to laugh at the bald killers when they trip out and kill people. The sight is pretty silly. Still, Lieberman manages to overcome this and provide some nice atmosphere and genuinely creepy moments. But yes, there's also plenty of unintentionally funny stuff: "We want Dr. Pepper," "If you jerk it won't work," and my personal favorite scene when the sad sack junkie watches Zipkin run away with his money.Also worth mentioning is that the music that is played whenever someone "freaks out" is very similar to the music that was used in Friday the 13th a few years later. All in all, Blue Sunshine is an interesting cheapie that should appeal to most genre fans. There's a sort of Larry Cohenesque quality about it.
Boba_Fett1138 In all honesty, this movie had all of the ingredients in it to be a good and original genre movie and perhaps even a cult-classic but yet ultimately the movie just isn't.It's as if this movie is one big, long, anti-drugs ad, by showing what using drugs can do to you, even when you did this only maybe just once, as long as 10 years ago. But still, the movie its concept remains its strongest point. It's something original, that also really could had worked well, if only the movie got done by a bit more talented people involved, behind the camera's especially.It just isn't a very well made film, or rather said it's lacking in about every way imaginable. The story isn't flowing well because the pacing is a bit off at times and the movie doesn't really succeed in building up its tension properly. The mystery elements and some of the more standard horror elements of its time also get poorly handled, which causes the movie to be a bit too much of an ineffective one. It's such a shame, since this movie obviously had so much more potential in it, judging on its premise and some of the ideas that the movie showed had in it.But another reason why I think the movie doesn't always work out too well is because of its main character, who got played by Zalman King. He has got a good distinctive look to him but zero charisma. He's such a boring guy, who besides doesn't even speak all that much throughout the movie. Why is the main 'hero'? And why should we really care about this person in the first place? At the start of the movie it doesn't even become apparent that this guy is going to be the movie it's main character. He's just a person sitting in the background and he should had stayed there really.It's not like this movie is bad and disappointing because it's a B-type of movie. On the contrary really. The movie is quite unique with both its story and style but unfortunately the style just isn't much good. It's not cheap but just very bland looking all. I don't know, perhaps the film-makers were trying to go for a more realistic approach to the genre but it just never really paid off.I don't want to bash this movie too hard, since I still overall enjoyed it for what it was, it's just so that the movie so obviously could had been a so much better and more effective one, with just a few minor changes to it. Best thing would had been a different director. Jeff Lieberman directed the movie in even perhaps a boring kind of way, that made the movie too often feel like an ineffective one.6/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
Bolesroor So I was going through The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film many many years ago and one movie jumped off the page and into my head. It was called "Blue Sunshine," and the description was quite simple, something like "Tainted LSD causes people to go bald and become blood-thirsty maniacs." Naturally I was drooling...It took me over ten years to track the movie down and I must say- it was worth the wait. "Blue Sunshine" is both the title and the type of LSD with supposedly scary side-effects. The movie begins with a very clever sequence in which we tilt down from the full blue moon to three seemingly-unrelated sequences... in time they'll come together. Its clear from the very beginning that director Jeff Lieberman has every frame planned, and this holds true throughout: the movie is built like a brick house- simply, logically, building tension, with no wasted scenes or dialogue.The cinematography is great as well: Lieberman lights the whole frame, and you notice little details and textures that add to the mood. This lighting style also helps the movie stay young- aside from the fashion and cars you'd have no idea it was filmed in '76. But the best part of the movie are the scares- in major and minor keys... a man losing every hair on his head in one shot... a psychotic murderer forcing a woman's body BACK into a roaring fire as she tries to crawl out... a babysitter going insane while the children she's watching chant "We want Doctah Peppah! We want Doctah Peppah!" The disco finale is classic, and makes a sly statement about disco music and 70's culture as a Blue Sunshine user goes bats in a shopping mall nightclub. The movie ends rather quickly, and while some people complain about this, I prefer a clean break over a drawn-out exposition-filled "wrap-up." "Blue Sunshine" is not for everyone... if you don't like psychotronic movies (exploitation films, horror movies, sci-fi, etc) you won't be interested. But if you're looking for a good nightmare seek this movie out! GRADE: A