Jeff Lieberman(I)
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Writer-director Jeff Lieberman has crafted a handful of highly quirky,
creative, and distinctive horror movies that are much enjoyed and
appreciated by fans of offbeat and imaginative fright-film fare. His
pictures are distinguished by their novel oddball plots and an
amusingly eccentric sense of off-center humor.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947, Lieberman attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Lieberman's 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 (1977), 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 afterward. Lieberman's entry in the popular early-1980s wackos-in-the-woods slasher sub-genre was the potent and harrowing "Deliverance" (1972) variant Just Before Dawn (1981). Remote Control (1988) was a hugely entertaining science-fiction alien invasion romp.
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). In addition to his own pictures, he also penned the screenplays for the TV movie Doctor Franken (1980)--which he also co-directed--and The NeverEnding Story III (1994). He also produced and directed TV commercials throughout his career.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947, Lieberman attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Lieberman's 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 (1977), 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 afterward. Lieberman's entry in the popular early-1980s wackos-in-the-woods slasher sub-genre was the potent and harrowing "Deliverance" (1972) variant Just Before Dawn (1981). Remote Control (1988) was a hugely entertaining science-fiction alien invasion romp.
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). In addition to his own pictures, he also penned the screenplays for the TV movie Doctor Franken (1980)--which he also co-directed--and The NeverEnding Story III (1994). He also produced and directed TV commercials throughout his career.
