When one film festival closes, another begins…
Now that the NewFestival is over, here comes one of my favorite film festivals of all - the Subway Cinema Asian Film Festival. It’s always the place I see the craziest films - among the highlights this year are the premiere of Hell’s Ground - the supposedly first ever Pakistani gore movie, produced by my favorite trash movie DVD company Mondo Macabro. There’s also the new, and supposedly good Park Chan-Wook Film “I’m a Cyborg… But that’s Okay,” and Takashi Miike’s gay manga “Big Bang Love, Juvenile A.”
And then there’s this little deliciousness which sounds too good to be true (picture above).
EXTE:
“Imagine the grossest thing on earth. Chances are you¹re thinking of a big
swimming pool filled with oily, black hair and you¹re floundering in the
middle of it with hair getting up your nose, tickling your ears, going down
your shirt, getting in your mouth, clogging your throat, cutting off your
breath…ever since Masaki Kobayashi included “The Black Hair” in his 1965
ghost film Kwaidan, hair and horror have been linked in a dark marriage. In
EXTE, director Sion Sono (of the cult hit Suicide Club) pushes the fear of
hair to the edges of sanity and beyond.
Chiaki Kuriyama (Go Go Yubari from Kill Bill) is an assistant hairstylist at
a small town salon, charmingly named after multiple murderer Gilles de Rais.
Her sister is a beer disposal unit who dumps her daughter on her doorstep
and stumbles off into the night. Longtime character actor Ren Osugi
(Nightmare Detective) gets to kick out the jams and turn on the crazy face
as a morgue janitor obsessed with hair who steals a female corpse from his
workplace fridge that won’t stop growing long, looping strands of thick
black hair. He trims the dead locks and sells them as extensions…which go
nuts and start to kill the women who wear them. These divergent storylines
are braided together and come to a head (of hair) in a final showdown
between a heroic hairstylist and a hungry hairstyle. Striking a perfect
balance between outright parody and skin-prickling terror, with Ren Osugi
doing a weird cheer on the sidelines, this movie will finally teach you what
it really means to have a bad hair day.”
You know I’m not missing a film about killer extensions!!!