Wigging Out.
We spent the first few weeks of June discussing a cisgender male demon trapped in a female body and genderfluid dinosaurs, and now we’re delving into the world of Black women’s hair in Justin Simien‘s (Dear White People, Disney’s upcoming Haunted Mansion) horror comedy Bad Hair.
In the 1989-set film, an ambitious young woman named Anna (Elle Lorraine) gets a weave at the behest of her boss (Vanessa Williams) in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career may come at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.
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Episode 235: Bad Hair (2020)
Don’t wig out and prepare for a whiter– *ahem* WIDER audience, because we’re discussing Justin Simien’s horror comedy Bad Hair (2020)! Weaving her way into this discussion is Fantasia International Film Festival programmer and horror journalist Carolyn Mauricette!
Join us as we try to figure out the many, many things this film is trying to do, praising the intent behind most of the creative decisions while lamenting the confused execution. Is it self-aware camp? Is it self-serious horror? Is it wasting Vanessa Williams? ….Yes?
Cross out Bad Hair!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re taking a look at one of the most infamously queer-coded horror films of the ’80s: Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher!
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