Blue Sunshine

Director: Jeff Lieberman 

Cast: Zalman King, Deborah Winters, Mark Goddard, Robert Walden, Alice Ghostley, Stefen Gierasch

Genre: Horror/Thriller 1978

Running time: 90 mins.

Rating:★★

At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry is on the run. More bizarre killings continue with alarming fruquency 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 maybe a drug all the murderers took a decade before. Soon, if Jerry can't stop it, the horror will become uncontrollable... the horror caused by Blue Sunshine!

Headaches, hair falling out, irritability, nightmares, and complete delirium with the full blue moon as the "guide" to each character being introduced until it finally comes to the party, where our hero Jerry shows up to the film. Then after the initial three murders and havin read the synopsis, I can help but wonder, if all this is happening because of a drug that people took a decade ago, what was the original intent of the drug? Was it an antibiotic? A vaccine? Or just the new drug to get off on? As Jerry continues to try to clear his name of the party murders, he breaks into the house of another murder scene with a similarity to the one he witnessed. He relives that murder in his mind, almost making wonder if he's starting to suffer the symptoms of the drug too. 

An acid drug, Blue Sunshine, sold by Ed Flemming, running forCongress candidate, back in his college years at Stanford ten years prior. You find that the people, who are suffering from the drug and are going on a killing spree, went to Stanford the same time Flemming did and bought from him. Why is this Flemming guy claming up then, when hearing the name of the drug (aside from the obvious)? The film never answers that and leaves the audience with Jerry tranquilizing Flemming's right-hand man with text on the screen about what was medically discovered about Flemming's guy and what the U.S. Government is doing to control the matter. Leaving the audience a bit frightened that this kind of thing could happen and no satisfying conclusion. 

Fantastic seventies' red undertones, dark contrasts, and magnificent make-up artwork! Kind of wish there were more violence, just so I can bear witness of the creatively inventive era in the special effects/ make-up. But at last, there wasn't and with its ending too, it left me a bit dissatisfied. It could have been pushed a bit further.