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		List Price: $27.95		Label: Synapse Films Salesrank: 62348 Released: April 15, 2003
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD

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Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 09/23/2004

Blue Sunshine Reviews:
NEWSPAPER TAXI'S APPEAR ON THE SHORE...READY TO TAKE YOUR BUTCHARD BODY'S AWAAAAY......
2008-10-01 - The VERY underrated Jeff( SQUIRM-JUST BEFORE DAWN )Lieberman comes up with a very HORROR/BIZARRE flick here. Blue Sunshine tells the story of a decade-delayed reaction for a group of former hippies who turn into homicidal maniacs after having one hell of a FLASHBACK on the LSD drug Blue Sunshine. This is full of marvelous touches (the former longhairs go bald with their insanity) and has deft performances from the cast. Watch this movie and trip out....MAN!

One of the best sci-fi thrillers of the 70's....
2006-08-19 - Jeff Liberman, directing his second film, seems to resemble a David Cronenberg, in delivering his material with a dead-on seriousness interlaced with a sense of humor at times. A case-in-point is the opening party sequence where a partygoer imitating Sinatra goes beserk--a preview of things to come.

The premise of this film traces a form of LSD that leaves those who took it with a delayed chromosonal imbalance triggered by sudden hair loss and then psychosis marked by violent, homicidal impulses.

With the bad LSD linked to a Stanford ex-professor to local campaigning politician, unlikely hero Zalman King must find the answers to the mystery behind a rash of murders amidst the normalcy of respectable suburban types of middle America.

Shocking as it was on its original release, this once hard-to-find film in this DVD set offers an exemplary transfer from the original print, a full-length commentary by the director, trailers, and some of Liberman's earlier satirical film shorts. Although not as well known as it should be, "Blue Sunshine" is undoubtedly one of the better sci-fi thrillers of the late 70's.

Blue Sunshine Radiates..
2006-07-06 - I bought only because I am a big fan of Mark Goddard and was pleasantly surprised. Horror/sci-fi/suspense/just enough gore.... It delivers. Not typically my cup of tea but I liked it and my husband thorougly enjoyed it.

"There's a bald maniac in there! He's going bat s**t!"
2006-03-26 - A bunch of college kids did some acid called Blue Sunshine now 10 years later the acid is making them go bald and freak out complete with the killing and the stabbing and the blood. Sadly there's a lot of talking and not enough freakin'!

At the original freak out a innocent bystander gets blamed for the murders and now - on the run - he has to find out what caused his friend to freak out and obviously that takes a lot of talking. Even with the excessive talking BLUE SUNSHINE is still worth watching just to laugh at the freak outs.

Just say no!
2005-10-20 - Although I'm far too young to have experienced the heady joys of the Woodstock Generation (I was born in 1970, just in time to enjoy the wonderful fashions of the Nixon/Ford/Carter decade), I've eagerly watched the selfish, egotistical cads otherwise known as the Baby Boomers make total fools of themselves. Think I'm being a bit harsh? Go watch the movie "Woodstock" for proof of this assertion. Come on, could we expect anything other than total idiocy from a bunch of people who thought getting hopped up on brown blotter and rolling around in the mud was the end all be all of human existence? It'll be worth kicking an extra ten percent of the paycheck into Social Security for a few years if it means we won't have to listen to these dolts any longer. Prepare to meet your maker, Baby Boomers, and don't let the door hit you in the you know what on the way out! Of course, we all could have been spared the nightmare that is the Baby Boomers had Jeff Lieberman's nightmarish vision encapsulated in "Blue Sunshine" become reality. He thought of an excellent way to rid the world of these buffoons. Too bad it's only a movie--OR IS IT?!?!

The opening sequences of "Blue Sunshine" tell us rather quickly that something is amiss. We see a cop, a babysitter, and a couple of other members of the Boomer generation going about their business. Oddly, they all seem to suffer from extreme headaches and, even more disturbing, hair loss. Maybe it's the full moon that keeps popping up in these scenes that's causing these problems? They wish. No, it's something far more sinister and personal than that. We first learn exactly what's going on when we see Jerry Zipkin (Zalman King) and his girlfriend Alicia Sweeny (Deborah Winters) laughing it up with their friends at a party. They're just sitting back to enjoy the antics of his bestest pal Frannie (Richard Crystal), who is preparing to sing a song for the crowd, when a shocking revelation rears its ugly head (pun intended). Someone bumps Frannie the wrong way, revealing the fact that he wears a wig over his nearly bald pate. Funny thing is, no one can remember male pattern baldness in Frannie's family. Not that they have the time to ask, unfortunately, as our hairless friend suddenly flips out and starts killing people. Jerry tries to stop him, leading to a confrontation outside that results in a vehicle crushing the nearly rabid Frannie. Now Jerry's on the run, hunted by the cops and haunted by the vision of his pal going nutso.

What's going on? Good question, and one that Zipkin plans on getting to the bottom of as soon as possible. He quickly enlists the assistance of a doctor friend, David Blume (Robert Waldron), to help put the pieces together. It turns out that a guy named Edward Flemming (Mark Goddard), now attempting to run for a seat in Congress, sold some bad blotter called Blue Sunshine ten years ago in college. Frannie bought some, and so did the people we saw in the opening sequences of the film. Yep, that's right. We're talking about the ultimate flashback, one that turns the people who dropped the tabs into bald, raving psychotics. While Jerry goes about his mission to expose the madness, the movie cuts away from time to time so we can see these nuts killing their families, strangers, and generally anyone who gets in the way. It's not pretty, not in the least. Zipkin's going to have a tough time proving his theory, however, especially since Flemming isn't about to admit publicly that he once sold drugs. Fortunately, Flemming's beefy henchman Wayne Mulligan (Ray Young) goes of his rocker in a very public way. The message of the film? Nancy Reagan was right--JUST SAY NO!

I wasn't sure what Lieberman tried to accomplish with "Blue Sunshine." Is it a comedy or a serious message film about the dangers of drug use? As many times as I busted a gut over the ridiculous shenanigans unfolding every couple of minutes, I'm strongly thinking it's the former. How can we take bald psychos on a rampage seriously? How about the scene where Wayne rampages through a disco? Should I take that seriously as well? Heck, the fact that Jerry Zipkin uses a pellet pistol to bring down a Blue Sunshine nut is enough to elicit guffaws for a week and a half! Throw in some seriously over the top acting, television movie of the week production values, and a score that sounds like Edvard Munch's "The Scream" set to music and you've all the trimmings for a laughfest of epic proportions. Every time I saw Jerry Zipkin I had to roar. He sweats, twitches incessantly, and looks like he slept in his clothes for a year. This guy looks worse than Kate Moss on a two-week nose candy binge. I guess I shouldn't be too hard on the movie--I thought the opening sequences were incredibly well done, and the idea behind the madness is a bit intriguing. The execution is a laugh riot, though.

The DVD contains a boatload of extras. We get a Lieberman short film called "The Ringer" that's nearly more enjoyable than "Blue Sunshine," a lengthy interview with the man himself, a trailer, a still gallery, a commentary track, and a restoration comparison that shows us just how bad of shape the film was in (and how good the transfer looks). I'm not the biggest Jeff Lieberman fan out there--I witnessed first hand the horror that is "Squirm"--so I can't say I would watch "Blue Sunshine" again. I do recommend watching it once, though, if for no other reason than to marvel at its abject weirdness. Good luck!