Blue Sunshine

BLUE SUNSHINE-1978-People are losing their hair and going crazy! At a small get together a guy sings and dances but it's revealed that he's wearing a wig. He bugs out and runs away but later returns and burns three women to death. Nice guy Jerry Zipkin (Zalman King) is blamed for the murders. He and his girlfriend Alicia (Deborah Winters) investigate. It seems everyone who goes crazy graduated from Stanford in the same year. It all leads to Edward Flemming (Mark Goddard), a former drug dealer now running for office and a type of LSD called "blue sunshine". The weirdest part is when a babysitter (Ann Cooper) freaks out, takes off her wig and tries to kill two kids. It's basically a good story done in by poor direction, a dumb script, bad acting and out of place close-ups of King. The funniest part is when Flemming's bodyguard (Ray Young) goes crazy in a disco and starts throwing everyone around ("There's a bald maniac in there. He's gone bat shit!"). The piss poor ending tries to make it seem like it's based on a real story. Also with Robert Walden as doctor, familiar TV actress Alice Ghostley in one scene, Brion James and pro-wrestler Rock Riddle.

Writer/director Jeff Lieberman had made the worm horror movie SQUIRM in 1976 and later made the TV movie DOCTOR FRANKEN and the hillbilly slasher JUST BEFORE DAWN.

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