Jeff Lieberman

Jeff Lieberman (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director and screenwriter, known for his cult horror and thriller films Squirm, Blue Sunshine (1977) and Just Before Dawn (1981).

Biography Jeff Lieberman was born in 1947 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. He made his feature film debut as the writer and director of the nature horror film Squirm (1976), about earthworms inundating a small Southern town and wreaking havoc. His following film, Blue Sunshine (1977), followed a series of murders in Los Angeles, connected to the killers' use of a certain strain of LSD. Blue Sunshine screened at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the London Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 1981, Lieberman wrote and directed the slasher film Just Before Dawn, about a group of campers stalked by a killer in the backwoods of Oregon.

In 1988, Lieberman wrote and directed Remote Control, a science fiction film following a video store clerk who discovers a videotape circulating in his store is brainwashing its viewers. He subsequently wrote the screenplay for The NeverEnding Story III (1994). He later wrote and directed the satirical comedy horror film Satan's Little Helper (2004).

Filmography As director Year Title Notes 1972 The Ringer Short film 1976 Squirm 1977 Blue Sunshine 1980 Doctor Franken Television film 1981 Just Before Dawn 1988 Remote Control 1994 But... Seriously Documentary 1995 Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion Television film 2004 Satan's Little Helper

As screenwriter Year Title Notes 1972 The Ringer 1973 Blade 1976 Squirm 1977 Blue Sunshine 1980 Doctor Franken 1981 Just Before Dawn 1988 Remote Control 1994 The Neverending Story III 2004 Satan's Little Helper 2006 'Til Death Do Us Part Television series, creator, 3 episodes