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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

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Director: Shion Sono

Cast: Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi

Rated: NR

Duration: 108 mins

US Release: Feb 17 2007


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