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Just what I expected

The acting in this movie is really good.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Wanted by the police in connection with several murders, Jerry Zipkin (Zalman King) attempts to clear his name, his investigation leading him to politician Edward Flemming (Mark Goddard), who helped fund his university tuition by selling a form of LSD called Blue Sunshine. Now, ten years later, those who took the drug are losing their hair and losing their minds, becoming uncontrollable, hairless homicidal maniacs.If there's one thing that can be said about all of Jeff Lieberman's movies, it's that they're quirky. His debut, nature amok movie Squirm, was about killer worms—not giant worms… just regular sized worms with an appetite for flesh. Backwoods slasher Just Before Dawn boasted an original and unexpected twist that made it stand out from its many contemporaries. '80s oddity Remote Control saw aliens trying to take over the world through VHS tapes. And 2004's Satan's Little Helper featured a kid teaming up with a serial killer to teach people how to do Halloween in style.Blue Sunshine, Lieberman's follow up to Squirm, is no exception: it's totally bonkers and utterly unique, with a frantic Zipkin tracking down the bat-s**t baldies, but only making matters worse for himself by being on the scene every time someone turns up dead. It's all very silly, but hugely entertaining, highlights being Flemming's ex-wife Wendy wigging out and whipping off her wig to chase a couple of brats with a carving knife, and bald brute Wayne Mulligan (Ray Young) going crazy on the dance-floor. There's not much in the way of gore to speak of, and even scares are few and far between, but a smart script, a rollicking pace and solid performances all go to make this one a lot of fun.7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.

Welcome to Los Angeles, where a series of Stanford graduates and ex-acid users are inexplicably losing their hair, going mad, and committing the most gruesome of murders. Jerry Zipkin (Zalman King) happens to be attending a party where one of the incidents takes place, and has to evade police and try to solve the cause in order to exonerate himself from blame.Jeff Lieberman ("Squirm"; "Just Before Dawn") writes and directs this spunky and surreptitiously bizarre thriller, and as usual, his own unique flair pervades every scene. At times the film plays out like a corky 1960s European detective thriller, while at others it is surprisingly macabre and unsettling. Other unusual touches make the film stand out prominently, such as the drawn out opening credits: we are given introductory snippets of the characters affected with the hair loss/mania which are interspersed throughout the opening credit roll. After each appearance, the camera reorients itself on an ominous blue moon over which the credits continue to be played. It is idiosyncrasies such as this that "Blue Sunshine" is riddled with, and that's part of its appeal. The film has an episodic feel as well, but the unsettling tone is continuously revived through a jarring and memorably creepy score, as well as the wonderfully executed psychotic breaks of the affected characters (a mad bald woman chasing children with a kitchen knife? Count me in).The acting in the film is a mishmash of solid performances with less-than stellar ones; Zalman King somehow works for the leading part, and Deborah Winters is also memorable as the feisty yet peripheral girlfriend character. The film's prescient disco death blowout is the icing on the cake here, and while it may be a bit anticlimactic overall, the film still holds its ground.Overall, "Blue Sunshine" is one of Lieberman's stranger offerings, but if nothing else, it's an original. There are some seriously creepy scenes that accent the ominous atmosphere, and there is a persistent L.A. noir-ish feel to the proceedings that leave you never quite knowing what to make of any of it at any given moment. Not a film for everyone, and not profoundly terrifying, unless you're an ex-LSD user from Stanford, but it is definitely a one of a kind. 8/10.

Wrongly convicted of murdering his friends, a man sets out to find the truth and learns that a group of friends who took a tainted batch of drugs are responsible for the deaths and tries to stop their rampage before he gets caught by the police.This here turned out to be quite an excruciating, and at times, barely-passable horror effort. One of the biggest issues with that is the fact that the majority of the film plays off as an investigation movie into the mysterious habits of the murderer who had already struck and was himself put down earlier in the movie, so that means very little screen-time is spent on the lead actually being in danger throughout. It's around a half-hour between the last attack at the party and the second scene where the next victim comes into play, and then it's another twenty-plus minutes again after that before we get to the finale so there's so much searching going on that it really takes a toll on where this one gets its scares from since it's all about who's infected and who isn't, but yet it does nothing to assure that the hero is in any danger throughout by not having others out there just like it. Overall, this creates an immensely plodding, boring film that doesn't have much of anything going on here until we get to the three big scenes in this which are the attack at the cabin, the mother's sudden turn and the final stalking in the department store. Each of these are great fun for their own individual reasons, as the cabin attack is far more gruesome and intense than anything else in here which results in quite a jolt, the mother's attack is based on a continuing storyline that gets paid off nicely, and the finale in the store is just a good-old-fashioned stalking scene in a massive layout with plenty of room to hide and sneak attack on the victims. These here save it, but it's still not as good as it should've been.Rated R: Violence, Language, drug use and children-in-jeopardy.

This surprisingly intriguing horror film has people turning into bald,blue-skinned killers after dropping contaminated LSD ten years before."Blue Sunshine" is more fondly remembered for it's bald,thirty-something,ex-hippie murderers who are easily the most bizarre descendants of the living dead yet to reach the silver screen.This film is not easy to categorize:it's a horror film mixed with drug movie and also features paranoid urban legends and bizarre conspiracy theories.The title of this movie is taken from the name of a bad batch of 60s acid that seems to have some rather unfortunate long-term side effects.The film is badly lit and there are some dull spots,but "Blue Sunshine" is a must-see for experimental cinema enthusiasts.7 out of 10.