Blue Sunshine
Year: 1976
Director: Jeff Lieberman
Written by: Jeff Lieberman
Threat: Bald, Murdering Drug-Trippers
Weapon of Choice: Tranquilizer dart
Based upon: none
IMDb page: 
Blue SunshineYear: 1976 Director: Jeff Lieberman Written by: Jeff Lieberman Threat: Bald, Murdering Drug-Trippers Weapon of Choice: Tranquilizer dart Based upon: none IMDb page: |
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Rish's Reviews
Blue Sunshine was cheap, folks. Seventies cheap. It was cheap and not terribly well
done.
But it was fun to watch nonetheless.
Pursued by the authorities, Jerry Zipkin, who may have the coolest name in movie
history (tied, perhaps, with Travis Bickle), investigates an odd phenomenon: it seems
that everyone who did an experimental hallucinogenic drug in the Sixties called Blue
Sunshine is becoming murderously strong, losing all their hair, and going violently
insane. Other than that, the side effects are minimal.
From the director of Squirm!, I don't know if this was Horror in the strictest
sense (tyranist once used those words against me and it cost him his left ring finger
. . . still the fastest typist in your building, pal?), but it comes pretty close.
Plus, it's got Bald, Murdering Drug-Trippers in it!
Zalman King, who starred as Zipkin (again, I cannot get over how great that name
is . . . say it with me, kinder: Jerry Zipkin), is much more famous as the director/producer of such
timeless Eighties masturbation fare as 9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid, and
Two Moon Junction. As far as I could tell, the most famous member of the
cast was Alice Ghostley, who was only slightly more well-known for playing Esmerelda
on "Bewitched" as she was for having the last name "Ghostley."
For a moment, let me tell you something about my bald friend. He knows EVERYTHING
about movies. You can watch a film with him and he'll point to Extra Number 2 and say,
"Wow, that guy played Extra Number 1 in The Happiest Millionaire!" So everything
we watch together is made interesting by his presence.
Unfortunately, I didn't see this with my bald friend. I saw this instead with my Irish
friend, who hates everything, and guess what? He said the movie was shite. I don't
know if I agree or disagree, except that I have very little to say about the film at this
time, and that can't be good.
Parts of the film were much more funny than they were scary. And in this case, that's
definitely a plus.
In the scene that supposedly made this movie famous, a huge ex-football player goes
insane in a disco and starts throttling and throwing people around. Our heroine hides
from him in the DJ booth and plays an extremely loud, extremely terrible Disco song
to chase the killer away. That was pretty cool, come to think of it.
I'd Recommend It To: Did I fail to mention the bald, murdering drug-trippers?
Posted: July 8, 2004
Total Skulls: 8
| Sequel | ||
| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution |  |
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| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | ||
| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | |
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| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | |
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| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | ||
| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | |
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| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | ||
| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | |
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| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | |
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| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? | |