Thanks for the memories!

The first must-see film of the year.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

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.

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.

Blue Sunshine is a pleasant small movie, without big money and with the very lively rhythm, which takes place by following the search made in Los Angeles of a young journalist (Jerry Zipkin/Zalman King): this one effectively wants to know why so many his friends, couples, and colleagues, suddenly disappeared and which is the intrinsic reason which makes that his newspaper and the authorities refuse his investigation. Typical of the SCI-FI of this time, without too much humor and ungraceful winks, this fiction inspired by a news item is allowed see even if you should not put everything on the back of "blue sunshine" drug. Besides the criticism of the actual society by Liebermann, who masters the codes of the genre, is intelligent, we see that the author wants to alert it by denouncing a manipulation of the media.Moreover, the sequence of the baby-sitter mutating in a ghoul thirsty for blood is clearly horrifying...

I picked this up from GreenCine on a whim, and found it to be interesting, if not particularly suspenseful. It is a combination of violent horror and 70s era paranoia films (e. g. All the President's Men). The plot, in short, follows a young man wrongfully accused of murder who is trying to find out what is causing people in their early thirties to go bald and engage in killing sprees. (Early onset midlife crises???)The performances are nothing to write home about, and the attempt to tack an anti-drug message onto this piece is mainly symptomatic of the anti- drug hysteria that would characterize the Reagan era. Nevertheless, it is a worthwhile watch for a slow night.