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Hair Extensions (2007)
Director: Shion Sono
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From Time Out New York
No amount of absurdity—and this film delivers plenty—can clip the essential enjoyments of Sion Sono’s hair-horror flick, about haunted extensions that strangle their style-obsessed victims to death. Sono is still best known for 2002’s grim Suicide Club, but here he takes a likeable turn toward mainstream, almost feminist thrills à la Ginger Snaps, as hairdresser-trainee Yuko (Kill Bill’s stoic Kuriyama) must do battle with the sadistic, woman-hating morgue attendant (Osugi) who commands the killer tendrils. Scary? Hardly. But the film has luxurious height and volume to spare.Author: Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York Issue 664: June 19 - 25, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Shion Sono
Cast: Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi
Rated: NR
Duration: 108 mins
US Release: Feb 17 2007
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