Blue Sunshine

R

1976

1h 37m

Horror

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86%

7 Reviews

Tomatometer

44%

1,000+ Ratings

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A man (Zalman King) accused of murder tries to stop hairless people driven to kill by bad LSD in college.

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James W

This movie feels like it was made by a couple of conservatives who've never done psychedelics. There's no such thing as "strains of LSD" because its a chemical not a plant. Aside from that comical error and the whole idea that psychedelics make you go bald and kill people it's a very meh movie.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

09/08/22

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Matthew D

The movie is great; a classic example of a 70's paranoid conspiracy thriller with the added fun of science fiction and horror elements. The DVD also comes with a satiric short called The Ringer that is arguably better than the movie itself!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/28/21

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Refreshingly distinctive from beginning to end, Blue Sunshine's unsettling, minimalist score and extremely disturbing bursts of madness and violence are anchored by convincing performances within a relatively believable story. A unique gem to be sure.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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delysid d

hilarious movie, LSD can make you go insane and your hair fall out. so watch out!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/10/17

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A bit of an underrated classic. It has a dedicated fan base, but it never seems to be mentioned in the company of other late 70's horror classics like "Dawn of the Dead" or "Phantasm". It's perhaps not quite as good as those films. In particular, I don't think Zalman King is quite up to the task here. In all the films I've seen him in, he registers exactly one emotion: scowly brooding. In films where he's a villain, it kind of works. Here it has a tendency to drag the film down a bit.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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anthony b

Guilty pleasure!!!! ð??³

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Jeff Lieberman

Director

Zalman King

Jerry Zipkin

Deborah Winters

Alicia Sweeney

Mark Goddard

Edward Flemming

Robert Walden

David Blume

Charles Siebert

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Eddie Harrison

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…(its) credentials as an offbeat, counter-cultural B movie are impeccable; there’s fights, car-chases and a healthy dose of cynicism… a well-scripted, memorable little film that looks back to the past to portray how we got to a pre-ruined future…

Rated: 3/5

Aug 29, 2023

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Jas Keimig

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

The plot is honestly a bit murky-but the premise is interesting enough to start making you paranoid.

Feb 1, 2022

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Anton Bitel

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Blue Sunshine poses anxious questions about a late-Seventies America whose middle-aging middle class is made up, inevitably, of casualties from the previous decade, when the current establishment was first establishing itself.

Aug 17, 2015

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Dennis Schwartz

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The melodramatics never get better than intriguing.

Rated: B-

May 21, 2014

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

Seems to have been made to give former hippies the willies.

Rated: B

Jul 22, 2006

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Emanuel Levy

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Rated: 2/5

Aug 11, 2005

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Synopsis

A man (Zalman King) accused of murder tries to stop hairless people driven to kill by bad LSD in college.

Director: Jeff Lieberman
Producer: Joseph Beruh, Edgar Lansbury
Screenwriter: Jeff Lieberman
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 2, 2016
Runtime: 1h 37m