{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"BLUE SUNSHINE (1977) \u2013 Episode 176 \u2013 Decades Of Horror 1970s","description":"\u201cThere\u2019s a bald maniac in there, and he\u2019s going bat shit!\u201d Believe it or not, this is an accurate description of several scenes in this movie. Join your faithful Grue Crew \u2013 Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr \u2013 as they check out this representative of the 70s LSD-scare hype, Blue Sunshine (1977) from Jeff Lieberman, the director of Squirm (1976). Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 176 \u2013 Blue Sunshine (1977) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! https:\/\/youtube.com\/gruesomemagazine A bizarre series of murders begins in Los Angeles, where people start going bald and then become homicidal maniacs. But could the blame rest on a particularly dangerous form of LSD called Blue Sunshine that the murderers took ten years before? Writer\/Director: Jeff Lieberman  Selected cast: Zalman King as Jerry Zipkin Deborah Winters as Alicia Sweeney Mark Goddard as Edward Flemming Robert Walden as David Blume Charles Siebert as Detective Clay Ann Cooper as Wendy Flemming Ray Young as Wayne Mulligan Alice Ghostley as O\u2019Malley\u2019s Neighbor Stefan Gierasch as Lieutenant Jennings Richard Crystal as Frannie Scott Bill Adler as Ralphie Barbara Quinn as Stephanie Adriana Shaw as Barbara O\u2019Malley Bill Sorrells as Ritchie Grazzo Jeffry Druce as Junkie Brion James as Tony Blue Sunshine is a request from a Grue Believer that has popped on and off the 70s schedule depending on its streaming availability and that of other films on the Grue Crew\u2019s list. At long last, it made it through to the recording schedule as Jeff\u2019s pick for this episode and he is impressed with the surprisingly good cast of actors familiar to TV viewers of the time. He kind of likes the idea of the chromosome-altering, 10-year time bomb included in a designer version of LSD, and the trippy music \u2013 highly appropriate for the period and the subject \u2013 is to his liking. However, Zalman King\u2019s overboard approach to method acting, though he\u2019s directed to do so as a red herring, is off-putting.  \u201cThe longest hour-and-a-half he\u2019s had to sit through\u201d is how Chad describes Blue Sunshine. He didn\u2019t care for the story or the characters and Zalman King\u2019s character\u2019s lack of feeling for personal space is annoying as hell. On the plus side, he is hilariously amused by Ray Young\u2019s portrayal of Wayne (or \u201cBiff,\u201d as Chad calls him) and his final rampage. Bill agrees with Chad on the unlikeability of King\u2019s character calling his performance more like meth-head acting than method acting. He doesn\u2019t buy into the conspiracy presented, but admits, Blue Sunshine is definitely a 70s film. Doc had a great time with Blue Sunshine. The bizarre and quirky lead, Bryon James flapping around, \u201cBiff\u2019s\u201d murder spree, and the crazed bald maniac look are just a few of his trigger trippers in this movie. Blue Sunshine certainly isn\u2019t for everyone, but if you\u2019re a director Jeff Lieberman (Squirm, 1976) completist or are in the mood for some LSD-fueled political intrigue dressed up as a horror movie, this should fit the bill. At the time of this writing, Blue Sunshine is available to stream from Shudder. Be sure to check out The Black Saint\u2019s and Doc Rotten\u2019s take on Squirm in Decades of Horror 1970s #6! SQUIRM (1976) \u2013 Episode 6 \u2013 Decades Of Horror 1970s Gruesome Magazine\u2019s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule, chosen by Bill, will be The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975), an ABC TV movie of the week starring Elizabeth Montgomery. How does that go? Forty this and forty-one that or something like that? We want to hear from you \u2013 the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com. ","author_name":"Decades of Horror | Horror News Radio","author_url":"http:\/\/docrotten.libsyn.com","html":"