Beware of Bug-Eyed Baldies: Blue Sunshine
You know all is not right with the world when a guy (Richard Crystal) at a party starts singing “Just in Time,” and in the middle of the song, a friend pulls his hair, his eyes bug out, his wig comes off, and he’s totally bald with the exception of a few stray strands. And there’s no karaoke machine! As three chicks sit around discussing the whole thing (everyone else left) the singer comes back, and throws one of them into the fireplace (yes, there’s a roaring fire) while the other two sit on the couch and scream “No, no!” Fortunately, while being chased by a non-music lover (Zalman King as “Zippy”), the bug-eyed bald-boy runs into the street and gets hit by a truck.
This is Blue Sunshine a cult horror film that debuted in 1978, and is scheduled for release by New Video on September 20, 2011. It seems that when politician Ed Flemming (Mark Goddard) and his chums were at Stanford University in 1967, they were dropping a batch of really groovy acid called “Blue Sunshine.” Ten years later users get severe headaches, alopecia totalis, bug-eyes, and go completely nuts and start killing people—violently.
The audience is spared most of the violence and “pools of blood” (actually puddles, and no arterial spray). They are also spared the bother of a consistent, cohesive screenplay and credible acting. Blue Sunshine is the Reefer Madness of LSD. But, oh!, those seventies’ fashions…
Am I saying Blue Sunshine stinks? No way, man. It is a masterpiece of inept filmmaking that includes scenes that really shouldn’t be missed. One in particular has a bug-eyed, bald babysitter chasing two little kids around her apartment with a butcher knife. A scene like that might be scary, but not when the maniac is so incompetent that she can’t catch little kids cowering in corners. When Zippy takes an elevator, there is much drama as an older man and woman and a German shepherd share it with him—but they have absolutely nothing to do with the story.
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