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LA, the 1980s: Anna (Elle Lorraine) tries to make it on a black music
TV channel, and due to a company reshuffle, she's able to propose her new
channel concept to her new boss Zora (Vanessa Williams) - who loves the
concept but hates Anna's hair, so she gets her an appointment with her own
hair stylist Virgie (Laverne Cox) to get hair extensions - and it works
wonders for Anna, not only does she look much better with the new
extensions, it also gives her the self confidence she has so far lacked to
really get ahead ... and she turns heads, too. One night though, when her
landlord (Steve Zissis) tries to rape Anna and her extensions kill him and
suck his blood, she starts to suspect there's something wrong with her
hair. But for now, Anna still hushes things up as her rise seems
unstoppable. Plus when her hair later kills her cheating ex (Jay Pharoah),
Anna can't but feel this was deserved. But soon the hair isn't that picky
anymore whom to kill. But getting rid of the extensions is harder than it
sounds, and during one such attempt her hair kills the entire staff of a
beauty salon. Anna confronts Zora about her extensions and learns that
Zora suffers from killer hair as well - but what's worse, Zora is killed
by her own hair right before Anna's eyes - but even with Zora dead her
hair might still be alive, so it's no longer just her own hair that Anna
has to fear. But how does one fight hair? Now the basic concept
of the film, killer extensions, is great - the execution unfortunately
less so, as the titular bad hair doesn't even come into play until well
into the movie and too much time is spent on the backstory, which seems to
try a bit too desparately to also serve as social commentary, but really
is just a conglomeration of clichés and thus seems rather bland. Plus the
thing is actually unnecessarily convoluted for its straight-forward
premise. Basically, the film could have easily done with 30 minutes hacked
off its running time and would have come across all the more powerful for
it, because the hair parts of the film are great fun.
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