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==