Elvira's Movie Macabre: Blue Sunshine/Monstroid

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Elvira's Movie Macabre: Blue Sunshine/Monstroid
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ASIN: B000N2HDOG
Release Date: 2007-09-25

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Blue Sunshine; After a batch of LSD turns his friend into a psychotic killer, Jerry (Zalman King) must find the dealer responsible, before he's wrongfully convicted of the murders. Monstroid;A small village is attacked by a creature from a nearby lake,and a corrupt chemical company sends a specialist to destroy the beast and cover up its own responsibility.

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One of the best sci-fi thrillers of the 70's....
Blue Sunshine Radiates..
"There's a bald maniac in there! He's going bat s**t!"
Just say no!
As usual...

Blue Sunshine
Starring: Zalman King , Deborah Winters , Mark Goddard , Robert Walden , and Charles Siebert
Director: Jeff Lieberman
Manufacturer: Synapse Video
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ASIN: B00008DDIH
Release Date: 2003-04-15

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One of the best sci-fi thrillers of the 70's...........2006-08-19

Jeff Liberman, directing his second film, seems to resemble a David Cronenberg, in delivering his material with a dead-on seriousness interlaced with a sense of humor at times. A case-in-point is the opening party sequence where a partygoer imitating Sinatra goes beserk--a preview of things to come.

The premise of this film traces a form of LSD that leaves those who took it with a delayed chromosonal imbalance triggered by sudden hair loss and then psychosis marked by violent, homicidal impulses.

With the bad LSD linked to a Stanford ex-professor to local campaigning politician, unlikely hero Zalman King must find the answers to the mystery behind a rash of murders amidst the normalcy of respectable suburban types of middle America.

Shocking as it was on its original release, this once hard-to-find film in this DVD set offers an exemplary transfer from the original print, a full-length commentary by the director, trailers, and some of Liberman's earlier satirical film shorts. Although not as well known as it should be, "Blue Sunshine" is undoubtedly one of the better sci-fi thrillers of the late 70's.

Blue Sunshine Radiates.........2006-07-06

I bought only because I am a big fan of Mark Goddard and was pleasantly surprised. Horror/sci-fi/suspense/just enough gore.... It delivers. Not typically my cup of tea but I liked it and my husband thorougly enjoyed it.

"There's a bald maniac in there! He's going bat s**t!".......2006-03-26

A bunch of college kids did some acid called Blue Sunshine now 10 years later the acid is making them go bald and freak out complete with the killing and the stabbing and the blood. Sadly there's a lot of talking and not enough freakin'!

At the original freak out a innocent bystander gets blamed for the murders and now - on the run - he has to find out what caused his friend to freak out and obviously that takes a lot of talking. Even with the excessive talking BLUE SUNSHINE is still worth watching just to laugh at the freak outs.

Just say no!.......2005-10-20

Although I'm far too young to have experienced the heady joys of the Woodstock Generation (I was born in 1970, just in time to enjoy the wonderful fashions of the Nixon/Ford/Carter decade), I've eagerly watched the selfish, egotistical cads otherwise known as the Baby Boomers make total fools of themselves. Think I'm being a bit harsh? Go watch the movie "Woodstock" for proof of this assertion. Come on, could we expect anything other than total idiocy from a bunch of people who thought getting hopped up on brown blotter and rolling around in the mud was the end all be all of human existence? It'll be worth kicking an extra ten percent of the paycheck into Social Security for a few years if it means we won't have to listen to these dolts any longer. Prepare to meet your maker, Baby Boomers, and don't let the door hit you in the you know what on the way out! Of course, we all could have been spared the nightmare that is the Baby Boomers had Jeff Lieberman's nightmarish vision encapsulated in "Blue Sunshine" become reality. He thought of an excellent way to rid the world of these buffoons. Too bad it's only a movie--OR IS IT?!?!

The opening sequences of "Blue Sunshine" tell us rather quickly that something is amiss. We see a cop, a babysitter, and a couple of other members of the Boomer generation going about their business. Oddly, they all seem to suffer from extreme headaches and, even more disturbing, hair loss. Maybe it's the full moon that keeps popping up in these scenes that's causing these problems? They wish. No, it's something far more sinister and personal than that. We first learn exactly what's going on when we see Jerry Zipkin (Zalman King) and his girlfriend Alicia Sweeny (Deborah Winters) laughing it up with their friends at a party. They're just sitting back to enjoy the antics of his bestest pal Frannie (Richard Crystal), who is preparing to sing a song for the crowd, when a shocking revelation rears its ugly head (pun intended). Someone bumps Frannie the wrong way, revealing the fact that he wears a wig over his nearly bald pate. Funny thing is, no one can remember male pattern baldness in Frannie's family. Not that they have the time to ask, unfortunately, as our hairless friend suddenly flips out and starts killing people. Jerry tries to stop him, leading to a confrontation outside that results in a vehicle crushing the nearly rabid Frannie. Now Jerry's on the run, hunted by the cops and haunted by the vision of his pal going nutso.

What's going on? Good question, and one that Zipkin plans on getting to the bottom of as soon as possible. He quickly enlists the assistance of a doctor friend, David Blume (Robert Waldron), to help put the pieces together. It turns out that a guy named Edward Flemming (Mark Goddard), now attempting to run for a seat in Congress, sold some bad blotter called Blue Sunshine ten years ago in college. Frannie bought some, and so did the people we saw in the opening sequences of the film. Yep, that's right. We're talking about the ultimate flashback, one that turns the people who dropped the tabs into bald, raving psychotics. While Jerry goes about his mission to expose the madness, the movie cuts away from time to time so we can see these nuts killing their families, strangers, and generally anyone who gets in the way. It's not pretty, not in the least. Zipkin's going to have a tough time proving his theory, however, especially since Flemming isn't about to admit publicly that he once sold drugs. Fortunately, Flemming's beefy henchman Wayne Mulligan (Ray Young) goes of his rocker in a very public way. The message of the film? Nancy Reagan was right--JUST SAY NO!

I wasn't sure what Lieberman tried to accomplish with "Blue Sunshine." Is it a comedy or a serious message film about the dangers of drug use? As many times as I busted a gut over the ridiculous shenanigans unfolding every couple of minutes, I'm strongly thinking it's the former. How can we take bald psychos on a rampage seriously? How about the scene where Wayne rampages through a disco? Should I take that seriously as well? Heck, the fact that Jerry Zipkin uses a pellet pistol to bring down a Blue Sunshine nut is enough to elicit guffaws for a week and a half! Throw in some seriously over the top acting, television movie of the week production values, and a score that sounds like Edvard Munch's "The Scream" set to music and you've all the trimmings for a laughfest of epic proportions. Every time I saw Jerry Zipkin I had to roar. He sweats, twitches incessantly, and looks like he slept in his clothes for a year. This guy looks worse than Kate Moss on a two-week nose candy binge. I guess I shouldn't be too hard on the movie--I thought the opening sequences were incredibly well done, and the idea behind the madness is a bit intriguing. The execution is a laugh riot, though.

The DVD contains a boatload of extras. We get a Lieberman short film called "The Ringer" that's nearly more enjoyable than "Blue Sunshine," a lengthy interview with the man himself, a trailer, a still gallery, a commentary track, and a restoration comparison that shows us just how bad of shape the film was in (and how good the transfer looks). I'm not the biggest Jeff Lieberman fan out there--I witnessed first hand the horror that is "Squirm"--so I can't say I would watch "Blue Sunshine" again. I do recommend watching it once, though, if for no other reason than to marvel at its abject weirdness. Good luck!

As usual..........2005-09-29

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Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics Boxed Set

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Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics Boxed Set
Starring: Ed Sullivan , Beatles , Elvis Presley , and The Supremes
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ASIN: B00006ADZZ
Release Date: 2002-09-24

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With a total of 144 songs (including repeats) and well over 500 minutes of playing time, this massive boxed set, whose nine discs each contain between 12 and 19 performances, truly is, as host Ed Sullivan famously said, "a really big show." With some 20 songs between them, the two most important rock acts of the 20th century, Elvis Presley and the Beatles, both of whom received huge career boosts from the Sullivan show (garnering a reported 80 percent audience share and 70 million viewers, respectively), are well represented; so are other genres, like Motown and '60s rock. And wonderful, galvanizing performances by, among others, the Jackson Five (especially "the little fella in front," as Sullivan calls Michael), the Animals, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Jackie Wilson, the Rolling Stones, and even the Association ("Along Comes Mary") are enough to counter the curious inclusion of the Brooklyn Bridge, Jay and the Techniques, and other obscure minor talents.

Still, the boxed set (whose DVD bonus features include "trivia tracks" and limited discographies) has serious flaws. Audio and video (color and black and white) are good, but far too many songs are repeated (the Jefferson Airplane's "Crown of Creation" appears twice on the same disc!), while others are obviously truncated; and there's no excuse for programming two songs each by the likes of Dino, Desi and Billy, and Freddie and the Dreamers. In the end, the good music saves the day, but the set's drawbacks keep Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics from being an essential purchase. --Sam Graham

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On Sunday nights throughout the '50s and '60s, Ed Sullivan brought pop culture into America's living rooms with th e most influential show of its kind. If you made it there, you had it made because for the first time, the entire county was at home watching. During the course of the show's run, many of the early rock and roll legends were featured in career-defining p erformances. These cultural milestones have been compiled for Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics, along with archival footage and narration for insight on the artists, their eras, and their classic appearances. Now seen with half a century of hindsight , it's clear Ed Sullivan was right--his was a "really big show."

•Chart Toppers Volume 1: Top Hits of 1965, Top Hits of 1966, Top Hits of 1967
•Chart Toppers Volume 2: Top Hits of 1968, Top Hits of 1969, Top Hits of 1970
•The Soul of the Motor City: Motortown Review, Sweet Sounds of Soul, Motor City Magic
•Elvis and Other Rock Greats: Elvis Presley, Move to the Music, The Temptations & The Supremes, The Temptations, The Supr emes
•Love Songs: Classic Love Songs, Rock 'n' Roll Love Songs, Teen Idols
•Rockin' the Sixties: San Francisco Scene, Smash Hits of the Sixties, Psychedelic Sixties
•Legends of Rock: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rock Legends - Vol. 1, Rock Legends - Vol. 2
•The British Invasion: The British Invasion Vol. 1, The British Invasion Vol. 2

Plus trivia tracks, selected discographies, interview with John Moffit (director), rare footage of Ed & Sylvia, variety acts.

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Exelent.......2007-03-13

We are very pleased with the way the set has been digitally reproduced and presented, well worth the money for all those wonderfull memories.

Can't live without.......2006-02-11

So many DVDs, so many performances! I still haven't checked out all of them yet. A must-have for artists, musicians, and anyone who appreciates and wants to re-live the music of the 60's.

A Great Disappointment.......2005-12-30

Imagine my delight when I got this set for Christmas! But the anticipation was far better than the reality. Granted the performances were great. However, the old question of what is Rock 'n' Roll burns brightly!

I'm old enough to have lived through the years represented on this set, and recall seeing many of the broadcasts. I am also old enough to recall that we called James Brown,The Supremes, Temptations, Four Tops and The Jackson Five, "Soul" music not Rock n Roll.

I have three main gripes...
Why nine discs??
Why all the repetition?
Where's the rest of the real Rock acts?? Far too much Motown!

There are lots of great vintage Rock n Roll DVDs available please see and buy, The Music Scene and Hullabaloo sets everyone a winner!

If any DVD companies happen to read this in future please put Rock acts together and Soul acts together. Each is to be treasured but there are a lot of us who see Rock and Roll and want the Beatles, Stones, Herman's Hermits, Doors etc. I would be happy to buy a Soul R&B Sullivan Box Set!! I love Jackie Wilson, James Brown, Little Anthony and especially Smokey Robinson but not served with my Billy J Kramer.

Lets not confuse the issue...or re-issue. You wouldn't mix Buck Owens or Tammy Wynette into this set so why combine Rock & Soul?

God Bless Ed...let's see more, just packaged better.

A great trip back in time.......2004-12-13

First the negatives,as other reviewers have pointed out:Too much repetition, this could have easily been a 5 or 6 disc set and the fact many of the songs are heavily edited. That said, I did enjoy this package..a wide variety of music including shows devoted to Elvis,the Supremes and the Temptations..by shows I mean the half hour syndicated shows that make up this collection.I enjoyed the background information along with the historical clips and the narration by Jay Thomas..same guy from Murphy Brown and Cheers and a very good disc jockey.This is probably the most comprehensive music set put together and those Sullivan intros are priceless. He once forgot the Supremes name and said "here are the girls!" There are a lot of great artists represted and goes back to 1955 right through the end of the show in 1971/The asking price is a bit steepbut if you can find it for under $100..go for it. A better rock and roll time capsule you won t find.

Good Set.......2004-08-30

I love the Ed Sullivan Show, and these DVDs bring you the greatest rock acts of all time - all in one place! In this excellent 9-DVD package, you will find Elvis, the Beatles, the Doors, the Rolling Stones and many more. Yes, some songs repeat throughout the set, and yes, the discs are a little too short, but I'm willing to overlook that and enjoy my favorite rock acts again and again. Now it's your turn.

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