Several Stanford University acid heads of the late Sixties are experiencing a delayed reaction to a special LSD recipe called "Blue Sunshine," a reaction characterized by a complete and embarrassing loss of hair and a subsequent urge toward gruesome homicide. (Nice touch: one of the drug victims loses a clump of hair while telling the story of Rapunzel to two kids.) If in Squirm writer-director Jeff Lieberman exhibited a strong personal feeling for the sci-fi films of the Fifties, he here expands that feeling further into Real Life. Without ever reducing narrative speed, he keeps a constant lookout for signs of the political and cultural heritage of the Class of '68, whose lives are landmarked by such things as the Japanese monster movie, Rodan, and the breakup of the Beatles. Quite frightening; equally touching. The well-chosen cast includes Zalman King, Mark Goddard, Robert Walden, Charles Siebert, and Deborah Winters (the teenage drug abuser from The People Next Door). (1976) — Duncan Shepherd
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