- Original name: Bad hair
- Country: USA
- Genre: horror, comedy
- Producer: J. Simien
- World premiere: 23 january 2020
- Premiere in Russia: October 29, 2020 (Volga)
- Starring: E. Lorraine, W. Williams, J. Faro, L. Waite, B. Underwood, L. Cox, M. Hurd, J. Scott, R. Theede, E. Blaine Featherson, et al.
- Duration: 115 minutes
Watch the trailer for the comedy thriller My Hair Wants to Kill, which will appear in online cinemas in Russia on the eve of Halloween on October 29, 2020. The release date and the cast of the film have long been known. Satire and horror in one tape - isn't that what you've been waiting for?
IMDb rating - 4.5.
Plot
1989 year. An ambitious young woman from Compton, Los Angeles, dreams of becoming a VJ, but is told that she has the wrong hairstyle and image, the wrong facial features and the wrong skin color. She signs a contract with the new head of music television, who advises her to get artificial hair extensions, and this new hairstyle turns out to be very difficult to maintain, and the hair is alive, eager to kill ...
Production
Director and Screenplay - Justin Simien (Dear Whites, Dear White People).
Voiceover team:
- Producers: J. Simien, Julia Lebedev ("The Prophet"), Leonid Lebedev ("Swing", "Geographer Drank the Globe", "Poddubny"), etc .;
- Cinematography: Christopher Osborne (The Candy Bank);
- Artists: Scott Cusio (Victim, Until I Disappear, Sinner), Alex Gaines (How to Be a Latin Lover, American Housewife), Ceci (Ladies Joke Black), etc. ;
- Editing: Phillip J. Bartell (Miss You Already, To All the Boys I've Loved Before), Kelly Matsumoto (The Mummy, Fast and Furious 5, Van Helsing, The Mummy Returns);
- Music: Chris Bowers (When They See Us, Mrs. America, Black Monday, For the People).
- Culture machine
- Sight Unseen Pictures
Actors
Leading roles:
- El Lorraine ("Dear Whites", "White Crow");
- Vanessa Williams (Odysseus, The American Family, Desperate Housewives, The Good Wife, Star Trek: Deep Space 9);
- Jay Faro (Saturday Night Live, BoJack Horseman, A Million Little Things, Portlandia, Family Guy);
- Lina Waite (“Not a Jack of All Trades”, “This is Us”, “Westworld”, “Bones”, “Obvious”);
- Blair Underwood (Gattaca, Challenge, Abyss Impact, Battle Rules);
- Laverne Cox (Kill the Boredom, Orange Is the New Black, Law & Order. Special Victims Unit);
- Michelle Hurd ("Beach Cop", "Ambulance", "Pretty Little Liars");
- Judith Scott (Guess Who ?, Fracture, Illusion of Flight);
- Robin Theede (Key and Peel, Worst Week of My Life, Pretty Women in Cleveland);
- Ashley Blaine Featherson (The Losers).
Interesting Facts
Did you know:
- The slogan of the film: "Fear takes root."
- The age limit is 18+.
- Due in 2020, My Hair Wants to Kill is also known as Justin Simien's Nameless Project.
Material prepared by the editors of the website kinofilmpro.ru
