Blue Sunshine (1976)

[lester1/2jr]

     Some low budget movies are exploitation films made as quickly and cheaply as possible for maximum investment return.  Others are labors of love by people with scant resources.  many are somewhere in between.  Al adamson's ouvre is closer to the former, Ed wood is somewhere in the middle, and stuff like "Blue Sunshine" is , I think,  towards the latter.

     This film tops off the "paranoid insanity with the backdrop of a political campaign" genre  (Clonus, Parallex View) of the Nixon era.  DId they have alot of elections back then or something?  maybe everyone was having to resign so they always had to replace them I don't know.  anyway,  in this one a type of LSD was made that ten years later turns you into a stark raving lunatic. 
   
     Despite the low budget it's clear alot of care was put in to this film and the story, acting, and plot are all consistently good.  The DVD also contains "the ringer" a short film by the same director that attempts to disuade young people from doing drugs by equating drugs and drug culture with a ridiculous marketing scheme to get kids to wear big nose hoops of various shapes and is reasonably effective in communicating this.

[RCMerchant]

I have heard alot about this movie...it sounds great. I did LSD a few times  in the early 80's....still waiting to go stark raving mad,though! (some would say it has already happened!  )

[lester1/2jr]

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[voltron]

Awesome flick. Directed by Jeff Lieberman (Just Before Dawn, Squirm).