Blue Sunshine

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Movie
German title Blue Sunshine
Original title Blue Sunshine
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1977
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Jeff Lieberman
script Jeff Lieberman
production George Manasse
music Charles Gross
camera Don Knight
cut Brian Semdley-Aston
occupation

Blue Sunshine is an American horror film directed by Jeff Lieberman in 1977.

action

After Frannie Scott has performed a Sinatra song at a party and implies a kiss, a friend pulls his hair, which then falls out. The now bald Frannie gets enraged and goes on the party guests. He kills three women and escapes until he is stopped by Jerry Zipkin and puffed in front of a truck. Zipkin is mistaken for the murderer and flees. However, he is injured by a gun.

To prove his innocence, he turns to his friends Alice Sweeney and surgeon David Blume, who also tends his gunshot wound. His research leads to the case of a police officer who killed his family. He comes across a variant of LSD called "Blue Sunshine," which was distributed in the 1960s by today's politician and congressional candidate Ed Flemming. Ten years later, this caused a rampage and led to the loss of hair. Flemming's involvement turns the case into a political issue and Jerry has to be even more subtle in his investigation.

He first visits Flemming's wife, Wendy, who looks after the children at home. After initially pretending to be ignorant, she loses her hair and tries to kill her children. Jerry can just intervene and pushes them down the balcony. This act is also counted as murder.

Jerry is now trying to find someone who has taken the drug and can have a chromosome test. With a stun gun, he makes his way to Fleming's campaign manager Wayne Mulligan, to whom this applies. Alicia finds the manager in a nightclub, but suddenly runs amok. After killing some of the disco goers, Jerry manages to stun the maddened man. Jerry's assumption is correct, the drug has changed the chromosome structure over the years and caused the rampage. At least 255 cans of Blue Sunshine were still sold, the users at the time are unknown.

background

Originally, the film had a budget of $ 3.5 million and was set to take place in Manhattan. But when Jeff Lieberman's father died, he tried to distract himself and throw himself into work. So he didn't wait for bigger investors and shot the film for half a million US dollars, a much tighter budget, in Los Angeles. The disco scene was actually shot in a cowboy bar.

The film was shown at two film festivals in England and in Cannes , but since the festival management only paid for the accommodation and not the airfare, he stayed at home. Since the means of production were limited, the film was only shown in a few cinemas. The film was then supposed to be bought by ABC and NBC, but the two television stations demanded too many cuts. Ultimately, the film fell short of its expectations and only developed into a cult film over time.

In Germany it had its theatrical release on May 11, 1979 in Fantasia Filmverleih and was later brought onto the market by UFA as a VHS, with an edited and an uncut version being released. In 2005 the first DVD version about cmv laser vision was released . The film was also digitally remastered to 4K in 2015 by the original master, who was discovered in a warehouse . Lieberman himself oversaw the mastering process.

reception

The film was treated as a cult film, especially in the punk scene. The disco scenes in particular played a part in this. Disco was one of the main musical enemies of the punk scene at the time and so the scenes that made fun of the disco scene were well received in the punk scene. Video clips from the film were shown in the background in the CBGB , among others , while bands, including the Ramones , played. The new wave / synth pop band The Glove named their only album from 1983 after the film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Blue Sunshine. In: TCM.com. December 17, 2014, archived from the original ; accessed on April 20, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Blue Sunshine (1976) - Jeff Lieberman / Sense of View Review. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The 'Sunshine' Cult: Jeff Lieberman's Far-Reaching Rays at Anthology | The Village Voice. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Blue Sunshine in the online film database . Retrieved April 20, 2020
  5. ↑ Interview: Director Jeff Lieberman Talks BLUE SUNSHINE 4K Restoration. October 30, 2015, accessed April 20, 2020 (American English).
  6. ^ Lieberman on Lieberman . Video interview. DVD version of Blue Sunshine . CMV Laservision 2005
  7. ↑ People Lose Their Hair - and Their Minds - in 'Blue Sunshine'. October 26, 2011, accessed April 20, 2020 .