BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

GL84 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.

Boba_Fett1138 In all honesty, this movie had all of the ingredients in it to be a good and original genre movie and perhaps even a cult-classic but yet ultimately the movie just isn't.It's as if this movie is one big, long, anti-drugs ad, by showing what using drugs can do to you, even when you did this only maybe just once, as long as 10 years ago. But still, the movie its concept remains its strongest point. It's something original, that also really could had worked well, if only the movie got done by a bit more talented people involved, behind the camera's especially.It just isn't a very well made film, or rather said it's lacking in about every way imaginable. The story isn't flowing well because the pacing is a bit off at times and the movie doesn't really succeed in building up its tension properly. The mystery elements and some of the more standard horror elements of its time also get poorly handled, which causes the movie to be a bit too much of an ineffective one. It's such a shame, since this movie obviously had so much more potential in it, judging on its premise and some of the ideas that the movie showed had in it.But another reason why I think the movie doesn't always work out too well is because of its main character, who got played by Zalman King. He has got a good distinctive look to him but zero charisma. He's such a boring guy, who besides doesn't even speak all that much throughout the movie. Why is the main 'hero'? And why should we really care about this person in the first place? At the start of the movie it doesn't even become apparent that this guy is going to be the movie it's main character. He's just a person sitting in the background and he should had stayed there really.It's not like this movie is bad and disappointing because it's a B-type of movie. On the contrary really. The movie is quite unique with both its story and style but unfortunately the style just isn't much good. It's not cheap but just very bland looking all. I don't know, perhaps the film-makers were trying to go for a more realistic approach to the genre but it just never really paid off.I don't want to bash this movie too hard, since I still overall enjoyed it for what it was, it's just so that the movie so obviously could had been a so much better and more effective one, with just a few minor changes to it. Best thing would had been a different director. Jeff Lieberman directed the movie in even perhaps a boring kind of way, that made the movie too often feel like an ineffective one.6/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

ShadeGrenade In 1967, at the height of the Summer Of Love, a new strain of L.S.D. - Blue Sunshine - became popular among drug-taking students at Stanford University. Edward Flemming ( Mark Goddard, of the 'Lost In Space' television series ) made money selling the stuff but sensibly did not take it himself. Its horrific side-effects only kick in ten years later. The users go bald ( women included ) in the blink of an eye, grow sensitive to loud noises, their eyeballs roll in their sockets, and they get the crazy urge to kill! First victim is Frannie Scott ( Richard Crystal ) who goes berserk at a party in a log cabin, hurling three young women into a blazing fire. Jerry Zipkin ( Zalman King ) is blamed for the killings. To clear his name, he teams up with Alicia Sweeney ( Deborah Winters ). Finding a poster of Flemming in the studio of one of the Blue Sunshine victims, he goes to see the man himself. The ex-drug dealer is now running for Congress! Not wishing to see his seedy past raked up at such a delicate time, he tells Zipkin to keep away from him. But Ed's campaign manager - Wayne Mulligan ( Ray Young ) was also a Blue Sunshine taker, and begins exhibiting the first signs of madness...Written and directed by Jeff Liebermann, also responsible for cult horror movies 'Squirm' ( 1976 ) - not one to see if you've just had a spaghetti lunch - and 'Dead Before Dawn' ( 1981 ). 'Blue Sunshine' has an original idea at its core, and the shocks and scares are well coordinated. Wendy Flemming ( Ann Cooper ) goes nuts while baby sitting two children, and her creeping up on them with a knife is a very Hitchcockian image indeed. How rare to see a horror picture with a strong anti-drugs message. There's an air of melancholia to the story, as it effectively mourns the end of the hippie generation. Hero Zalman King makes a refreshing change from the usual handsome hunks who grace these sorts of pictures, looking as he does like the late comedian Charlie Callas. Goddard is slimy enough to be completely credible as a Senator! Some have commented on the 'rushed' ending. I for one think it better to have an ending like that, rather than one of those protracted 'Friday The 13th' style finales in which the killer won't stay dead. They just are not very believable. I would have liked Flemming to have been creamed by Wayne though.If the idea of bald psychos on the loose strikes you as absurd, well yes it is. But 'Blue Sunshine' is one hell of a scary film. You'll never look at Ross Kemp in quite the same way again.

HumanoidOfFlesh 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.