This excellent second feature from SQUIRM director Lieberman veers into early Cronenberg territory with its harrowing combination of detective, horror, and sci-fi genres. King stars as a man, on the run for a murder he committed in self-defense, who uncovers the solution to a string of
killings that has been plaguing a comfortable suburb. It seems that, 10 years ago, a Stanford professor (Goddard) created a form of LSD, dubbed Blue Sunshine, and administered it to several students in the name of science. Now--when all the human guinea pigs are well-to-do, middle-class members of
society--a delayed chromosonal imbalance is kicking in, resulting in the subjects' sudd...
Released:
1976
Rated:
R
Length:
97 mins