Blue Sunshine (film)
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Blue Sunshine is a 1978 horror film directed and written by Jeff Lieberman and starring Zalman King
Zalman King
Zalman King is an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His directing and writing productions are known for incorporating erotica as a centerpiece to plots which are nevertheless about greater issues.-Acting:As a young man in 1963 he played a gang member on Alfred Hitchcock Presents...

 and Deborah Winters
Deborah Winters
Deborah Winters is an American actress and businesswoman. Winters is probably most remembered for her roles in Kotch, The People Next Door, Class of '44, and The Winds of War...

. The film has become a cult item among horror fans, remembered mainly for its creatively weird atmosphere and offbeat plot. The film was released on special edition DVD by Synapse Entertainment in 2003.

Plot

In the midst of a party a reveler croons to the rest of the room and has his hair suddenly pulled off by a curious friend. The bald crooner then has a psychotic break and starts killing everyone. Jerry Zipkin (Zalman King
Zalman King
Zalman King is an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His directing and writing productions are known for incorporating erotica as a centerpiece to plots which are nevertheless about greater issues.-Acting:As a young man in 1963 he played a gang member on Alfred Hitchcock Presents...

), is wrongly accused of the murders, and tries to gather evidence to prove his innocence with the help of Alicia Sweeney (Deborah Winters
Deborah Winters
Deborah Winters is an American actress and businesswoman. Winters is probably most remembered for her roles in Kotch, The People Next Door, Class of '44, and The Winds of War...

). He discovers that 10 years prior, a group of college kids had taken a new form of LSD
LSD
Lysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD or LSD-25, also known as lysergide and colloquially as acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family, well known for its psychological effects which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open eye visuals, synaesthesia, an...

 called "Blue Sunshine," which causes its users to lose their hair and become homicidal maniacs many years after their trip is over. Zipkin manages to defeat the crazed bodyguard of a local politician, and save the shopping mall discotheque by carefully remembering the advice of the gun shop employee.

Cast

Zalman King
Zalman King
Zalman King is an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His directing and writing productions are known for incorporating erotica as a centerpiece to plots which are nevertheless about greater issues.-Acting:As a young man in 1963 he played a gang member on Alfred Hitchcock Presents...

... Jerry Zipkin

Deborah Winters
Deborah Winters
Deborah Winters is an American actress and businesswoman. Winters is probably most remembered for her roles in Kotch, The People Next Door, Class of '44, and The Winds of War...

... Alicia Sweeney

Mark Goddard ... Edward Flemming

Robert Walden ... David Blume

Charles Siebert ... Detective Clay

Ann Cooper ... Wendy Flemming

Ray Young ... Wayne Mulligan

Alice Ghostley ... O'Malley's Neighbor

Stefan Gierasch ... Lt. Jennings

Richard Crystal ... Frannie Scott

Bill Adler ... Ralphie

Barbara Quinn ... Stephanie

Adriana Shaw ... Barbara O'Malley

Bill Sorrells ... Ritchie Grazzo

Jeffrey Druce ... Junkie

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