Oct 09 2008
BALDIES GONE WILD: BLUE SUNSHINE
See what drugs can do?
PLOT
A group of friends gather together for a party. During some zany 70’s hijinks, one of the guys grabs another one’s head and suddenly his wig falls off. Frannie goes crazy and runs off into the night, leaving everyone scratching their head. They all kind of laugh it off, but Jerry Zipkin decides to stick around and try to find him. He finds Frannie, but not before the other man kills three women. The two men fight, Jerry pushes him in front of a truck and suddenly everyone wants to find him and put him in jail. At the same time the ex-wife of political candidate Ed Flemming is losing her hair and another man who loses his hair goes on a rampage and kills his entire family. Jerry and his girlfriend Alicia are able to put the pieces together and connect everyone back to a LSD type drug called Blue Sunshine that they took as college students.
TRIVIA
Blue Sunshine was almost sold as a television movie. Imagine how different that version would be!
THOUGHTS
I’ve wanted to see Blue Sunshine for awhile, but it’s not exactly the easiest movie to track down. The video stores around here don’t carry it and since I only wish I attended some of these horror conventions, I never managed to find it. Enter Netflix, which I finally joined and suddenly it appeared on my doorstep.
Now that I’ve seen it, I have to say that I really liked this movie though I’m not sure why. The movie itself is a real product of the 1970s: the hair, the clothing, the music, the sets but somehow it all seems to work. Yes I giggled when they went to the “discotheque” and yes I giggled when the people turned into mindless killers, but damn it, I was thoroughly entertained.
I put Blue Sunshine in thinking I’d watch a little bit before I went to bed and ended up watching the whole thing. It’s one of those movies that doesn’t make a lot of sense (why didn’t he shoot the guy when he had 4,000 chances to do so) and I really didn’t mind. It isn’t scary, but it’s entertaining and that’s saying a lot. If you haven’t yet seen Blue Sunshine, give it a shot now.
A stranger gave me a VHS copy of Blue Sunshine on a whim several years back …I’ve never understood what he DIDN’T see in this movie. There’s like an entire 70s sub-genre based on the latent effects of drugs …and though this isn’t quite Scanners, it does easily rank up there with Firestarter. Couldn’t agree more, Horror Queen: check this one out! (if you can find it)
Good words.