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
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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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Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.
Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
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.
jlgAltman BLUE SUNSHINE Heaven. Simply Heaven. BLUE SUNSHINE is most certainly the first film to slaughter and criticize the boomer, yuppie generation. 1968: A group of Stanford students drop the eponymous acid. Flash forward. 1978: Now professionals living in LA, one by one their hair starts falling out and they become mass murderers! No I am not making this up. Devilishly wonderful with one of the most bizarre performances this side of 1960s Marlon Brando. Zalman King, who later became a noted softcore porn producer, is so bizarre in the central role that in one very serious scene he appears to be sniffing another actors neck. BLUE SUNSHINE is just that kind of movie--an odd delight and a perfect double feature with ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN WE GO.
Uriah43 This movie starts off with a young man named "Frannie Scott" (Richard Crystal) having a good time at a party with friends. Suddenly something unexpected happens and he ends up killing 3 women and throwing them into the fireplace. Not long afterward, a police detective by the name of "John O'Malley" (Bill Cameron) also kills his wife and the next door neighbor. What both killers have in common are headaches, severe hair loss, nightmares and eventually extreme psychosis. Noticing these similarities, and being suspected in at least 4 murders, "Jerry Zipkin" (Zalman King) seeks to find out some answers to prove his innocence and help stop any further bloodshed. Helping him is his girlfriend, "Alicia Sweeney" (Deborah Winters) and a doctor by the name of "David Blume" (Robert Walden). Anyway, for a low-budget production this film wasn't bad at all. Although it had a "made-for-television" feel to it, it still managed to maintain a decent amount of mystery and suspense for the most part. Slightly above average.
HumanoidOfFlesh This surprisingly intriguing horror film has people turning into bald,blue-skinned killers after dropping contaminated LSD ten years before."Blue Sunshine" is more fondly remembered for it's bald,thirty-something,ex-hippie murderers who are easily the most bizarre descendants of the living dead yet to reach the silver screen.This film is not easy to categorize:it's a horror film mixed with drug movie and also features paranoid urban legends and bizarre conspiracy theories.The title of this movie is taken from the name of a bad batch of 60s acid that seems to have some rather unfortunate long-term side effects.The film is badly lit and there are some dull spots,but "Blue Sunshine" is a must-see for experimental cinema enthusiasts.7 out of 10.