RADIOACTIVE MOVIES!
with Instructor JEFF LIEBERMAN
at Blue Sunshine – 3660 St-Laurent, ,3rd Flr
Sunday June 26 – 11am-2pm
Registration: $15 (or $25 combo ticket available that includes screening of Blue Sunshine)
The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in a new element of fear for modern civilization, both impending doom, and the horrific effects of this new thing called ‘radiation’ on the human body and mind, making it a natural area for filmmakers to exploit. Gradually this fear was replaced by new ones; the effects of LSD, then later the effects of manmade pollution, all the while employing the basic
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About Jeff Lieberman:
Writer-director JEFF LEIBERMAN has crafted a handful of highly quirky, creative, and distinctive horror movies that are much enjoyed by fans of offbeat and imaginative genre pics, for their novel oddball plots and an amusingly eccentric off-center humor.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947, Lieberman attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His first film credit was co-writing the script for the gritty police action thriller
Blade (1973), which was directed by his mentor Ernest Pintoff. Lieberman made his debut as a writer-director with the excellent and inspired revolt-of-nature killer-worm outing
Squirm (1976). He followed this substantial drive-in hit with his best and most beloved film to date,
Blue Sunshine (1978), which tells the extremely absorbing and original tale of a bunch of hippies who take a lethal form of LSD that causes them to lose their hair and become insane psychotics 10 years Effictive and really good and can't wait to have more,
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Just Before Dawn (1981).
Remote Control (1988) was a hugely entertaining science-fiction alien invasion romp that Lieberman himself considers to be his worst feature. After a regrettably lengthy absence from directing, Lieberman made a triumphant return to fabulously freaky form with the enormously fun-n-funky psycho hoot
Satan’s Little Helper (2004).
About the author:
Kier-La Janisse
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books best online generic levitra including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
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