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| One truly psychedelic poster for Jeff Lieberman's Blue Sunshine |
QUICK REVIEW:
When a singing guest at a party gets his hair ripped off, he goes amok and burns two other guests, before getting run down. As it turns out, he - and a bunch of other people - go amok and lose their hair, because they took some bad LSD 10 years earlier.
That is the gripping premise in Jeff Lieberman's Blue Sunshine, which both attacks the hippie-culture and contemporary America's close relations to different kinds of chemistry.
Zalman King (The Ski Bum (1971)) isn't bad as the protagonist, but apart from him, Sunshine features an incredible host of terrible actors.
Still in all, it does manage to create images of a haunting nature and some eeriness, a special intro, a crime scene-scene that was later copied in Brett Ratner's Red Dragon (2002) and scary music by Charles Gross (Valdez Is Coming (1971)).
Blue Sunshine is a weird treat for fans of weird 70s sci-fi/horror with political ties, and is reminiscent of David Cronenberg's superior Scanners (1981).
Director Lieberman feature-debuted with Squirm (1976), a film about attacking worms. His last feature, so far, has been Satan's Little Helper (2004).
Title shot from the movie
One of the uncanny, former LSD-takers in Jeff Lieberman's Blue Sunshine
Another striking poster for the film - click to enlarge
The original trailer gives away so much, so here's instead a full scene from Blue Sunshine, and boy, what a scene. If this doesn't hook you, the film isn't for you
Budget: 0.55 mil. $ (est.)
Box office: Unknown
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What do you think of Blue Sunshine?
Have you seen other Jeff Lieberman movies; if so, how were they?
Other trippy 70s genre films worth watching?
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