Blue Sunshine

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=125 BGCOLOR="#990000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="043467d1dvldzz.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Book Antiqua" ><B>YikesHorror.com</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|     </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Book Antiqua" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="YikesHorror.com"><U><B>home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Horror Beginning with B"><U>Horror Beginning with B</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id69.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Babysitter"><U>The Babysitter</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id91.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bad Dreams"><U>Bad Dreams</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id92.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Basket Case"><U>Basket Case</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id93.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Basket Case 2"><U>Basket Case 2</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id94.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Basket Case 3: The Progeny"><U>Basket Case 3: The Progeny</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id95.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bay of Blood"><U>Bay of Blood</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Beast Must Die"><U>The Beast Must Die</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id105.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Beast Within"><U>The Beast Within</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id106.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Being"><U>The Being</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id107.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Believers"><U>The Believers</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Beyond Darkness"><U>Beyond Darkness</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id108.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ben"><U>Ben</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id109.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Beyond Dreams Door"><U>Beyond Dream's Door</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id110.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Beyond the Door"><U>Beyond the Door</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id111.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Beyond the Door II"><U>Beyond the Door II</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id112.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bits and Pieces"><U>Bits and Pieces</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id72.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Black Christmas"><U>Black Christmas</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id113.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Black Room"><U>The Black Room</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id114.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Black Roses"><U>Black Roses</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id116.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blackout"><U>Blackout</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id115.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blackenstein"><U>Blackenstein</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id117.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blackula"><U>Blackula</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id514.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Blair Witch Project"><U>The Blair Witch Project</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Blob"><U>The Blob</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id75.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Beach"><U>Blood Beach</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id128.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Cult"><U>Blood Cult</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id129.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Diner"><U>Blood Diner</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id130.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Feast"><U>Blood Feast</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id176.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Hook"><U>Blood Hook</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id76.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Lake"><U>Blood Lake</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id118.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Link"><U>Blood Link</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id119.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Mania"><U>Blood Mania</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Rage"><U>Blood Rage</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id78.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Spattered Bride"><U>Blood Spattered Bride</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id131.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Spell"><U>Blood Spell</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id132.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Tide"><U>Blood Tide</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id133.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bloodstalkers"><U>Bloodstalkers</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id120.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Massacre"><U>Blood Massacre</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id121.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Moon"><U>Blood Moon</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id139.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Relations"><U>Blood Relations</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bloodsuckers"><U>Bloodsuckers</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id140.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bloodsucking Freaks"><U>Bloodsucking Freaks</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id141.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blood Tracks"><U>Blood Tracks</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id142.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bloody Birthday"><U>Bloody Birthday</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id80.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bloody New Year"><U>Bloody New Year</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id81.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blue Monkey"><U>Blue Monkey</U></A>   |   <B>Blue Sunshine</B>   |   <A HREF="id83.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Body Bags"><U>Body Bags</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id84.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Body Parts"><U>Body Parts</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id85.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Body Shop"><U>The Body Shop</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id86.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Bog"><U>The Bog</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id87.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Boogeyman"><U>The Boogeyman</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id88.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Boogeyman II"><U>Boogeyman II</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Boggy Creek II"><U>Boggy Creek II</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id90.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Boneyard"><U>The Boneyard</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id143.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Brain Dead"><U>Brain Dead</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id144.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Brain"><U>The Brain</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id145.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Brain Damage"><U>Brain Damage</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id146.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bram Stokers Dracula"><U>Bram Stoker's Dracula</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id159.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Bride"><U>The Bride</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id160.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bride of ReAnimator"><U>Bride of Re-Animator</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id161.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Brood"><U>The Brood</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id162.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Burial Ground"><U>Burial Ground</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id163.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Buried Alive (1977)"><U>Buried Alive (1977)</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id164.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Buried Alive (1989)"><U>Buried Alive (1989)</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id165.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Buried Alive (1990)"><U>Buried Alive (1990)</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id166.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Burning (1981)"><U>The Burning (1981)</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id167.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Burnt Offerings"><U>Burnt Offerings</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#990000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <B> <IMG SRC="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=2181&sourceid=39400659&categoryid=dvd_scifihor2" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE > <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=2181&sourceid=39400659&categoryid=dvd_scifihor2" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="http://a1204.g.akamai.net/f/1204/1181/24h/www.affiliate.net/affnet/images/vid_dvd120X90C.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="120" HEIGHT="90" ALT="Check Out Our Horror Collection"></A>  </B></div> <div> <B> <IMG SRC="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=26864318&siteid=39400660&bfpage=home" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE > <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=26864318&siteid=39400660&bfpage=home" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="http://www.dvdplanet.com/satellite/banners/generic2b_120x90.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="120" HEIGHT="90" ALT="DVDPlanet.com"></A>  </B></div> <div> <B> <IMG SRC="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=37920209&siteid=39404880&bfpage=logo" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE > <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=37920209&siteid=39404880&bfpage=logo" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/bn/711-1751-4022-7" BORDER="0" WIDTH="120" HEIGHT="60" ALT=""></A>  </B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Blue Sunshine</B></div> <div> <B>(Toxic/Madness)                                5*****skulls</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>*Blood* *Not Particularly Violent* *Strong Language* *No Sexual Situations* *No Nudity* *Not Gory*</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1977/Color/94 Min./Vestron Video & Ellanby Films & The Blue Sunshine Company/Not Rated</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.............Jeff Lieberman (Remote Control, Squirm)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Jeff Lieberman</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Charles Gross</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........George Manasse</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Edgar Lansbury & Joseph Berlin</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up by Norman Page</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Jerry Zipkin......,,,...Zalman King(</B><I><B>Smile Jenny, You're Dead,Tell Me a Riddle</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Alicia Sweeney......Deborah Winters (</B><I><B>The Outing,Tarantulas-TheDeadly Cargo</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Edward Flemming..Mark Goddard (</B><I><B>Lost in Space</B></I><B>-TV)</B></div> <div> <B>David Blume...........Robert Walden (</B><I><B>Bloody Mama, Lou Grant</B></I><B>-TV)</B></div> <div> <B>Detective Clay.........Charles Siebert (</B><I><B>The Incredible Hulk, A Cry For Love</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Wendy Flemming...Ann Cooper </B></div> <div> <B>Wayne Mulligan.....Ray Young</B></div> <div> <B>Neighbor................Alice Ghostley (</B><I><B>Bewitched, Designing Women</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Lt. Jennings...........Stefan Gierasch (</B><I><B>Jack the Bear, Jeremiah Johnson</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Frannie Scott.........Richard Crystal </B></div> <div> <B>Ralphie..................Bill Adler</B></div> <div> <B>Stephanie..............Barbara Quinn</B></div> <div> <B>Barbara O'Malley...Adriana Shaw</B></div> <div> <B>Richie Grazzo........Bill Sorrells</B></div> <div> <B>Junkie...................Jeffrey Druce</B></div> <div> <B>Gun Salesman......Meegan King (</B><I><B>Sweater Girls</B></I><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: </B><B>Allopecia Totalis? </B><B>This is a good film for males who grew up in the sixties, attended Stanford, who are conscious of hair loss (Allopecia) and or took a lot of acid. They can counsel each other and tell drug stories while the videotape drones to its inevitable click. Due to a bad acid trip caused by the "Blue Sunshine" variant, murder and mahem ensues followed by a political cover-up intrigue by the now mainstream and ambitious erstwhile distributors of the drug. </B><B>The crazed, bald blue sunshiners were sometimes pretty entertaining, however, there isn't much else here. The threat to the political campaign like the travails of the individual Sunshiners are portrayed in unprepared blips, which only really works in the case of Franny the party man. His party scene is kind of funny in a disturbing way as Franny acts not unlike old high school or college friends, that is until he kills everybody. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Dr. David Blume goes on his rounds, comforting his patients, one of whom tells him he doesn't look well. Wendy Flemming is a baby sitter, separated from her politician husband. When one of her wards yanks on her hair, it comes out in the child's hand. Barbara tells Richie she feels like a wreck and doesn't know what to do about her policeman husband. John shows up just as they laugh about how he's losing his hair. Enter a late seventies cocktail party in which one of the guests acts up like a bird. Franny, the life of the party, is up and singing when his wig is accidentally pulled off, causing him to run out into the night. Jerry sticks around to look for his humiliated friend Franny in the bushes. The maddened Franny returns and pushes one of the female guests into the fire and stikes the others with an end iron. When Jerry gets back he is disappointed to see the bodies of his friends burning in the fire place. Franny leaps out of hiding and attacks him. Their struggle moves out into the street where Franny is hit by a truck. One of the truck drivers finds Jerry back at the house and confronts him with a gun, finally firing, but Jerry runs into the night. Alicia, Jerry's friend, is questioned by Lt. Clay, but she's not talking. Jerry is a political radical. He goes to see his old friend Dr. Blume (who, like Franny, graduated from Stanford about ten years before) about the gunshot wound. Jerry tells David that it was a hunter, but he doesn't want David to report it. Jerry notices a clump of hair on the floor and asks David about it. Wendy has been having nightmares and is horrified about the way she's been losing her hair. Jerry finally meets with Alicia at their appointed place and admits he isn't thinking too well. He reads that bald John, whom he doesn't know, has made the front page by killing his family and Richie and he head off to inquire. Neighbor Mrs. O'Malley tells him he won't be able to get into the house since the police have secured it. He breaks in the back way to look around. Jerry looks through the house, and imagines he can hear the events that led to the deaths, imagining himself to be strangling the bald madman. John's parrot chirps "blue sunshine!" This leads Jerry to a studio where he finds that aspiring politician Ed Flemming may be suffering similar problems, since "Blue Sunshine" is written under his photo. Jerry goes to the Flemming campaign headquarters and tells Flemming that Franny is dead. When Jerry asks Flemming about Blue Sunshine and the photo, however, he clams up. Alicia tells Jerry that Franny, O'Malley, and Flemming all graduated from Stanford ten years ago. Jerry realizes David did as well and hurries off to talk to him. David is operating as Jerry arrives and it appears he is becoming very erratic. Jerry waits in his office and talks to David about his Stanford connection. David says he knew about Blue Sunshine, a strain of acid, back at Stanford which he got from Flemming and sold to strangers. Jerry wants some barbituates from David to counteract the manic effects of the drug. Flemming's right hand man, an ex football star at Stanford, tells Alicia to meet him at a Flemming rally. He also seems to be exhibiting some erratic behavior. Jerry drops by on Wendy (Flemming's estranged wife), and asks her about Blue Sunshine. She catches him staring at her hair and asks him to leave. When he leaves, the kids are acting up and she looks about to lose it. She starts popping barbituates like candies and slumps over, pulling off her wig. She finds the carving knives suddenly very interesting. Jerry comes back to try again to convince her to talk and finds just the sort of scene he expected. Lt. Clay comes by asking about Jerry. Alicia tells Clay about her suspicions about Flemming's right hand man. Jerry arms himself with a pump gun. Alicia shows up at the bar to meet Flemming's right hand man and he doesn't look too good. When detective Clay arrives, she says Mulligan has gone to the men's room. Clay goes in and finds Mulligan has lost it. The crazed Mulligan stumbles through the disco knocking the patrons around like pingpong balls. Jerry converges on the mall and the bloody and pointless climax ensues.</B></div> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=2181&sourceid=39400659&categoryid=dvd_scifihor2" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE > <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=2181&sourceid=39400659&categoryid=dvd_scifihor2" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="http://a1204.g.akamai.net/f/1204/1181/24h/www.affiliate.net/affnet/images/vid_dvd468X60C.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" ALT="Check Out Our Horror Collection"></A>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>