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 - Der Kontrabulle (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 - Invasion der Bestien (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
Die unendliche Geschichte III - Rettung aus Phantasien (1994).
He also produced and directed TV commercials throughout his career.
