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Found the soundtrack. It’s fire
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I liked the movie too!
I missed you so much, Kennie!!!
1866-98, basically the period of reconstruction. 98 was when the last court case dismantling it occurred. I don’t know the case but I remember the year from AP History-/ it always stuck with me.
Lol I love candy corn but that okay I won’t hold it against you
When "My weave slays" takes a literal turn😂
Oh how the turn tables
Lmao😂
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LMBO!
This is definitely a black american gothic film. It's all about repression within a society. Even the period and sex scenes are gothic.
Nah it was straight up trash
I didn’t know having a period was gothic
@@noellet62able if you didn't like it it's because you didn't understand it
@@Miablakee more the Aesthetic.
M.C. Horns Art lmaooo
"We are looking for a little more rock"
Meanwhile rock was invented by a black woman named Sister Rosetta Tharpe
She didn't invent it, but she damn sure perfected it 😉
@@yasmeen7875 She invented it.
Right! Teach the people. Sister Rosetta Tharpe is in this book I read to my 15 month old called Think Big Little One.
@@yasmeen7875 she invented it
@@yasmeen7875 she invented it
This movie isn't bad, it's just campy. Huge difference. Campy films (which were big in the 80s) tend to be visually ridiculous and over the top, but it's more of a stylistic choice than just a lack of quality. Bad Hair def seems to be going for cult classic status like Rocky Horror. Anyway I watched this Halloween Night and personally I loved it!
Some campy stuff seems to have failed modern day... Few examples being Insatiable and Scream Queens 💔
Yes! Nobody came for killer clowns from outer space 🪐
I think I'll love it too.
It reminds me of Little Shop of Horrors!!! Camp is my favorite style of film
Lmao that. When I saw the ad I just thought it was kinda "cheesy."
It’s also really important to see black folklore, and black tales/History in books and media so I appreciated the book added in
Now I'd like to see more media with black/African folklore and folktales that aren't just dark evil spiritual witch magic.
cim sim yes ! Yes yes
But is that a real story.
@@Slm99 My great grand parents talked a lot about this story whenever my sisters felt ashamed of their black hair and tried to change it the thing about african folklore is we don't really write things down like europeans do or create fairytale books all our tales are passed down through song their song's of caution or simply a small story that just passes down through memory so only those closely tied to the culture will really know for sure
@@niloorenji499 Thank you for sharing and I just wanted to correct you although in my country we do tell fairytales we mostly tell stories similar to you through singing and it was about people from the past and there experiences and life. I was so impressed by the story in the movie so I had to ask if there is this kind of story outside. I hope I made some sense.
The yellow eyes kind of reminded me of Michael Jackson's eyes at the end of thriller
I remember when I was little it scared me sooo bad and idk
Yeah that's what I felt they were going for and it freaked me out as I still can't watch all of Thriller....even with the lights on...in the day time! Scary ass music video >_
It totally looked like what she was going for.
I never thought of that before but I see it now!
Idk why but that still creeps me out
Yes Laverne's makeup was off color, but most black cosmetics foundation was mostly poor and ashen back in the 80s, especially if their complexion was darker! 😊
DAMNIT THERE IT IS AGAIN BEING PERFECTLY EXPLAINED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MOVIE
oh this is so spot on, love it.
Oh I didn’t even think about it being intentional!
There was no Rihanna palette back then
Think she made her scalp bleed on purpose to feed the hair while she was sewing it down.
Nooooooo😭
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God that makes so much fucked up sense
Woah that makes so much more sense!
Oooooh good catch!
People missed that the Bad-CGI hair was paying homage to Asian horror and all its many hair motifs. I'm so glad you called out the DELIBERATE tackiness. It seemed that so many people completely missed that. I LOVED it, and I did catch waaaayyyyyy more on the second viewing. I think it'll be a cult classic later. It'll find its audience in the future.
omg i thought those scenes looked familiar i saw that movie a while ago and thought it looked familiar
Right I liked it. I caught on that it was supposed to be corny! Once you don’t take it serious it’s actually pretty good
Me a Korean: I knew that
I figured that out really quickly with some of the scenes that felt similar to East Asian horror I watched growing up. that and the 80s aesthetic felt like an obvious tribute and satire. I really enjoyed the film for what it was trying to do.
I got Grudge vibes as soon as I saw the hair move
Ironically, as a South African brown skinned woman, I love how they framed the culture. The clothing made me wanna just... cry? As well as the many other afrocentric parts of the movie. It just did so well. For a 'bad' movie, it did so much better than so many other Hollywood movies. It's so good.
🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 I also want to see the movie but I don't have Hulu.
Ayy 🇿🇦 I also don't have Hulu but tbh the trailer looks interesting so it's worth a try 😗
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@@ms.x1669 Sorry, this is so late, but someone uploaded the movie to TH-cam
No ma’am for the closures. They weren’t a thing accessible to the common weave seeker/consumer, if they existed back then. Source: I’m that Auntie viewer 😉
Thank you for answering this. I was really curious too
What IS a closure?
@@christopherbrown2706 Its like a lace front but the lace part is of a smaller area (so instead of a 13 by 4 area its a 5 by 5 area)
yes i concur about the closures. the most that was being done were front laces, and the technique was still wig quality at best.
side note....do you remember transfusions? (not the Bosley "men for hair" type) where they glue hair to a single strand, one-by-one?
@@mollyo4199 I do remember!! 🤭 glad that fad came and went! 🤣 How about those visible tracks and glue though...?
this movie is a cult classic in the making. everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, but i genuinely think people that didn't like it didn't fully understand it's message and should give it another try.
I agree
I think it would have done better going for a full horror. Most complaints I've seen are about the silliness of the later part. Like, I get where they were going with the end, but it was a little too goofy to me.
The movie could had the same 80's aesthetic without the "satire" and would still deliver the whole message just fine. Heck, even changing it to the modern setting wouldn't change much and still as relevant. It's all just a matter of execution.
Agreed. I enjoyed this movie
The message doesn't really come from a place of understanding though. Please keep in mind that the director is a black man and he kinda failed to go more in depth with the relationship black women have with their hair. Not every woman wears weave just because of their job or for acceptance.
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As a black girl, I can say that they hit most of the problem in the black community on the head in this movie. Black women can where weave ,relaxer ,or just be natural. The point is not to let your hair change u as a person. People will always have something to say about our hair. Like you in my business?Don't do that.
I have something to say about African hair. I say that you should be able to wear it, and wear it *PROUDLY!* LOVE YOUR HAIR!!!!!!!! But wear whatever style whatever way you want to. :)
@@awesomedude5558 ur right ,but u could have just said black hair
@@princessk3613 Yeah, true. My bad, lol. 😅 The message remains the same, though. :)
But it is alright if they want straight hair though right? If it's their preference?
@@anonyme252 I'm not Black, but it sounds like that's what she's saying. Wear what you want to wear. Just don't *BECOME* what you wear.
Aunty here, No ma’am closures were not around in the 80s.
Hi aunty! What's a closure?
@Shy A closure is what is used when you don’t want any hair left out of the sew; So a closure lace is used to act as that extra piece that’s designed to resemble the parting of the hairline
@@aasaps.fables Thank you! I know literally nothing about weaves. What does the part look like without a closure? Are weaves done without visible parting when a closure isn't included?
@@theoran7968 usually a section of natural hair is left out. It's usually relaxed and flat ironed to blend in with the rest of the sew-in. At least that is how I've had mine done in the past.
Hi, aunty!
This hit me HARD I remember going to school without straightened hair and a black boy had the AUDACITY to question me on why my hair looked the way it did... alot of ppl dont understand how bad that hurts this happened when I was 11
Oh my god yes!! It’s so sick and tone deaf when black boys AND MEN criticize and complain about when who wear natural non3c and under hair. Like the fact that black people hair type are NOT determined by gender. Kinky hair is the same whether you are a man or woman and women don’t naturally have loose hair (nor should be a requirement to be viewed as beautiful...)
Ironically they would say I had "witch hair" when it wasn't relaxed... that shit fucked up both my self-esteem and my hair that is frail to this day years chemical-free.
@Abidjanaise omg this!!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Exactly - very true. When I finally got a relaxer (instead of my braids) in grade 10, the black people I went to school with were like, you have *good* hair. I've been disgusted with that phrase ever since 😒
I went through hell in middle and high school for not having relaxed hair. What sucks the most is that it was my black classmates that I couldn't walk down the hall past without them saying something. This movie hit on some things for real.
I think in the scene where she kills Julius they kinda hint at the colorist or Eurocentric standard in society by having Julius say “you’ve never looked so beautiful” when her eyes turn light.
I noticed that too!!
Yes! I felt that way as well like boy you don’t see the danger you just say light colored eyes...
So for the door code 186698, there's a book called "The Black Regulars 1866-1898" about how starting in 1866, the US army created all black regiments and it tells the stories of how the soldiers in those regiments helped with the expansion of the US and dealt with the complete social and economic changes as we were becoming more industrialized. The door code might be the years 1866-98.
Or not, but it's an interesting book and this video was awesome as always 🙂
Love a smart Queen 👸
That sounds great. Does it fit into the context of the movie? 1866-1898 was the guiled Age. It was the beginning of the black codes . The black codes led way to Jim Crow. The codes were laws that were restrictive and limited the freedoms of African Americans. At the end of the movie, it shows Grant Madison, who was the head of the Network ,had black people collecting the hair of the witches as if he were a slave master. The witches gained control of the bodies of black women like the slave masters and Grant Madison wanted to change the image of the network to appeal to a wider(white) audience. This changed the 'culture' of the network by force. In order to gain one's freedom from the office, you must enter the emancipation code of 186698. You were free to leave after you entered that code.
@@Tippy2forU a lock goes two ways. It both keeps you in and keeps things out. Think about how within the walls they were being oppressed and told to fit into this standard, and getting fired for not conforming. Think about the importance of her ex boss and what she represents in the film not having the code and also having natural hair. This transaction of her - and her closer position to whiteness - being in the position to give the code to her ex-boss...
@@Tippy2forU It's been awhile since I read it, but now I want to reread it and watch the movie to look for connections so I can give a really good answer lol
@@sylvias190 ❤️❤️❤️
It’s a 80s vibe movie. If it came out in the 80s early 90s people would have loved this silly and thoughtful movie
right! I grew up on so many 80s movies and I miss that element of being silly and goofy lol
@@gissellel663 Same! There’s something about films from the 70s-90s/early 00s that were genuinely fun. They did this stuff just because they could and obviously the cast and crew had fun doing it! We need to bring it back. I enjoy my serious stuff but sometimes I need something light too.
Hopefully, it will get some newfound respect in 10 years like Jennifer's Body.
@@halfdemonprince omg Jennifer’s body is one of my favorite movies.
I thought it was a good movie. As a black girl, I found it like a “bad” horror movie that was having an honest conversation America isn’t ready for. Sure it was cheesy, but I also really appreciated the representation. I think people are being very hard on it and I don’t think they took it the way it was supposed to be taken.
exactly my opinion well said
I think a lot of people really don't wanna acknowledge that getting weave was an appeal to European standards and they hide that fact under the "I can wear my hair how I want" excuse. That's why a lot of people want to hate this movie or say it's "demonizing weave" when in reality it's demonizing the idea of being pressured to change the way you look to appeal to Euro-centeric beauty standards. To clarify I don't hate weaves or black people who choose to wear their hair straight, some wear it because they actually just want to wear their hair that way regardless of what the white man says, but I notice a lot of black people who will actively shame naturals because of their own self-hate and it's just not a conversation people are ready for.
💀💀 the Debby Ryan smirk in the thumbnail sent me
Edit: Also the nails are cute 🥺
Lmao I had to look again
Lmaooo I didn’t catch that at first
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The smirk gave me life lol
There's this Japanese movie called Hair Extensions that basically has a sorta of the same premise. It's one of those WTF JAPAN movies. Give it a watch.
There’s also a Korean movie very similar to both movies called The Wig
That’s the Sion Sono film right?
I was thinking about that movie, but I couldn't remember the name of it. It was pretty good for having such an absurd premise.
@@crystal5919 yup, Exte (2007)
@ALX BO it has been a bit since I have seen Exte, but it was more satire than anything. The only serious thing that I remember it touching on was child abuse. Still an interesting Halloween watch.
Can the next movie you do please be “After We Collided” the sequel to After. Like so she sees
Edit: She saw
Yes!
I watched this last night and it was even worse than the first one. The storyline, the acting, everything about it is terrible 😂😂😂
@@BlakeL623 watched it for Dylan Sprouse looking 👌 and he wasn't even in most of the movie smh 🙄
TRASH😡😧
judging by the heart, she will 😳
I don’t think it’s a bad movie either. I think it was just a corny cute horror film. Like white people are allowed to have 3000 crappy horror films So I like that this one Didn’t take itself seriously. I feel like in a few years time it’ll be seen as a cult classic.
Like "Tales from the Hood", "Bones", "Vampire in Brooklyn", and "Def by Temptation"🖤
"and then we see USHER - idk what his name is in the movie" LMAOOOOOO
Honestly once you understand that it was purposely filmed like an 80s movie its actually pretty good.
I liked the way it looked.
Everyone: *having intelligent conversations about this movie*
Me: “wow, the inner corner highlight hits different”
I CANT be the only one who cussed at my screen when I saw sis throw away TWO PLATES of some thicc-ass burgers.
You broke in LA but you throwin food away. I was fighting air.
Your thumbnail makes it even better. I would’ve been so mad if I was her cousin.
Same
Yessss, I said the same thing 😭 And I love burgers like that. I was mad.
“Girl did they make her bake with tumeric”😭😭😭😭😭😭
The way the girl said: "You gonna sleep yo way to the top like a lil bitch" Made me laugh so hard for some reason.
I’ll die on this hill with Kennie. Bad hair is actually a good movie about the multilayer complexity of Black Hair. If you take the movie at face value it’s “made poorly” but it is made like that for a reason. Things are actually well thought out. Like a white man running a black culture focus media company; the allusion to black slaves and native folklore; black women having to suffer and sacrifice in order to be seen as “black excellent”.
Also I would like to add that the director also created and writes Dear White people so..... brother deserves some type of flowers
@@courtney2578 I agree with you 100% lol
hELP WHEN THE HAIR DRANK THE PERIOD BLOOD I WAS SENT FLYING-
I felt like Hulu hit an all time low with that bs.
I was nauseated after that. Like it was so so gross. But i know how terrible that weave was, it drove home the point
I thought it was pretty convenient actually lol. Sometimes that blood is a lot. Like a lot a lot. I would love to have something that’ll just vacuum it all out, at least until the next batch came out.
My east asian ass sitting here and nodding along🤧 no idea about weaves and wigs and never even heard about pink lotion but its kennie so I'm paying attention!
okay but… i almost feel embarrassed to say this, but i’ve never realized how much of white “culture” (acceptance? i have no idea what the right term is) is pushed onto black women through hair. i mean, obviously as a white woman ive never been told that i can’t have a job because of my hair, but i never realized how the idea that natural black hair is wild or crazy is engrained in the beauty world. personally, i absolutely adore natural black hair, i think it looks absolutely beautiful and should never be covered up if the woman in question is happy with it, but i never really realized how much my idea of “beautiful hair” is white centric. many of my friends who are poc have weaves or wear wigs, and i guess it never crossed my mind how much the cultural stigma surrounding black hair affects them. genuinely eye opening for me. this video has honestly helped me see how privileged i really am to not have to hide my natural hair in fear that i won’t be accepted.
i hope this made sense lol :”) thank you so much for talking about this, kennie!! i always feel like i learn something from you haha.
I'm glad this movie helped you learn about this issue! We literally just got the Crown Act passed in congress, its a law that prohibits hair discrimination in the workplace. Unfortunately the law has only been approved in 7 states and 4 others have already rejected it. :/
Still its nice to see that support for it is growing slowly
That’s one of the main reasons a lot of us wear weaves. It’s more acceptable in the workplace. I’ve noticed at times I do get treated better w a weave. The scene where the protagonist walked into the office the first time w the hair was so relatable.
Yup now that made it a law so they can't do that anymore. So black girls can be natural as they want
Yup ure right. Instead of saying “POC,” just say “black women,” as tho this is a black women’s issue, not a poc issue. When u say “poc” u include everyone non black.
Worst thing WW like us have to deal with is if we color our hair something “unnatural” but that’s not nearly the same.
I don't think it was bad! I mean, it was intentionally "bad" because it was a satire and that's the whole point of satire. I thought that horror was a good framework to make a movie that it trying to tackle the honest-to-god trauma of being a black woman with afro textured hair and trying to navigate anti-black respectability and desirability politics in a racist society/workforce. I especially liked the part where the main character's hair had just murdered her ex-boyfriend and she starts crying in the beauty parlor and her old boss says "calm down, it's just hair." I honestly felt that! Obviously my hair didn't murder anyone, but hair is NOT "just hair" for black women, it comes with a lot of socio-political baggage that a lot of folks trivialize. The movie outright says several times that women should be able to choose how they want to wear their hair, they filmmakers might as well just put a disclaimer "this movie is not meant to demonize women who wear weaves." Also, you didn't mention my favorite part, where they are boinking and her hair is about to kill her ex --you see the "witch" come out in her eyes.... dude said "YOUR EYES HAVE NEVER LOOKED SO BEAUTIFUL" ahhhhh I was dying laughing!!! Like a JAB at black men who fetishize white women and white-adjacent phenotypes!!! Like DUDE there's a lot to dissect with this movie, I liked it!!
capitalize the G in God 🥰
@@oliviagrace6914 not everyone believes in a singular god, and therefore do not have to follow your religion’s rules.
I'm still campaigning to get Kennie to react to A Wife's Worst Nightmare - arguably one of the most toxic husbands to grace our TV screens
I agree that I wouldn’t call it a bad movie though it lost me toward the end. Yea, that’s when it went downhill a bit in my opinion.
I still kinda like it overall though.
when they brought the "comedic relief" I could feel them losing focus
I feel like this movie is going to be considered ahead of its time surprisingly for taking place in the 80s and holding up to 80s CGI. Just like Jennifer's Body was a failure of its time but now everyone I've seen do review or talk about the film seems to like it.
I think the thing with jennifer's body is that the mis-marketing of the film to highlight megan fox's attractiveness was largely why it failed. It was running a bunch of tv ads just on megan fox (bc of transformers) and it was released by a huge production company due to the writer's success with Juno. It was a feminist movie released with a man-eating succubus that a major hollywood studio just hadn't been ready for. This is a streaming movie and I don't think someone without a hulu subscription would have heard of this movie. Streaming movies hardly get any marketing unless it's disney, hence it's why some just get released and then fade into the thousands of content on hulu/netflix/ect. The 80's aesthetic has been beaten down for a while so it isn't even the best 80's media per say. Do I think it will have its fans? Sure. But it definitely won't be as widely misunderstood as jennifer's body.
Exactly
@@xxxXKPoPXxxx Actually, not many have done this era yet. This isn't just the eighties, but the transition from the 80s to the 90s. That was actually a very interesting era for race dynamics and I can't think of any movies from recent that have gone back to this era from a black urban perspective. The only thing I can think of is Pose. Probably bc that era is relatively recent. Just like with Jennifer's body I think ppl mistook the marketing of the film. They expected more of something like Get Out, as I did when I saw horror satire, but got something different. I think streaming movies def have cult classic potential, and like kennie said, I'm pretty sure that's the vibe they were going for or else they would have spent more money on the casting of the main character. Cult films tend to be star studded but the stars aren't the main character.
Exactly I think the same
Oh man my best friend and I saw Jennifer’s Body at the movies when it came out and we loved it. I kept hearing how poorly it was received and I was like really? It was good!
This movie is kinda reminicent of the early 2000s in Nigeria when they said weaves were evil and from the Marine kingdom. Nostalgic.
I looked up the origins of weaves, and apparently, they have been around since Ancient Egypt and were for people of high status.
@@Angi3_6 yeah that's true
Wahala for who go fix Indian hair 😂 😂
This movie gives “scary movie” or “Tales from the Hood” vibes to me, leaning more towards latter. I don’t think it was ever meant to be a serious horror, but rather using horror to spread the messages about such topics like hair in the black community.
I get the Tales from the Hood comparison (1 and 3 at least) but scary movie is a little more actively goofy
I didn't necessarily find the movie bad. I was actually waiting for it to come out since they dropped the first trailer 😂 I really like how the message was kind of reversed on what bad hair is. In our history of texturism and what not, there was always the good hair was closer to straighter or more "eurocentric-type of pleasing" hair and kinkier hair was bad hair. But in this movie, bad hair was the straighter hair because the concept of good and bad hair made us deviate away from loving our natural hair and always seeing our natural hair as unprofessional and whatnot 💀 idk if that made sense. Sorry that this was long 😭
Indeed! ✨
“If you’ve never smelled pink lotion, you’re probably 15.” I guess Kennie forgot non black people are watching lmao
or you didn't grow up around black people...
@@embracethebright1587 You don't have to grow up around Black people to use Black hair products lol.
@@courtr1588 That true. but apparently, Op didn't. soo what's your point?
@@embracethebright1587 My point was that you made a moot point.
@@courtr1588 ah, so you just want to argue in the comments. got it.
I think the hair getting wet is a reference to the wizard of oz famous “I’m melting” when the wicked witch died with water. That’s why it stoped the weave monster thing.
Also it plays on how when black women get weave they can not get it wet or it will be “nappy”
Good point
Nah. If you get your hair wet within the same week of getting a relaxer ....ya done fucked up.lol But for real it messes up the texture.
I did just a little research, and hair weaving was documented as far back as ancient Egyptian times, when Cleopatra ruled! They would even have different colors like bright blue or red. But in the US, I saw the weaving process credited to Christina Jenkins in the early 1950's. She actually started up an at-home salon, and people allegedly paid her to travel to different COUNTRIES to do their hair once it was popularized! The amazing stuff that people can do with their clothes, skin, hair, etc. to express themselves will always fascinate me 😊
“Go forth with your nappy naps and your beady beads...” I cried😂😂😂😂
GIRRLL when you brought up Pink Lotion, my whole childhood was based on that product alone. 🤣
LITERALLY daily. All I knew was pink lotion and knocker balls 😭
Still is for me the only thing my mother chooses to by that and olive oil
That and blue magic
@@karma.chameleon that and blue magic
@@karma.chameleon yes that is true
"Go forth with yo knappy knaps and yo beady beads." 💀💀
Right!! LOL!
okay hear me out
The weave needs blood to stay good and grow.
The lotion is pink.
Normal lotion is white.
Blood is red.
White + red = pink
The lotion is regular lotion with blood in it to feed the hair.
edit: in the last 5 minutes of the video it reveals that there was pigs blood in the lotion, but I will still leave this comment up
The Pink Lotion (also called Pink Lotion) usually sold for Black hair from the 80's onward was light pink in colour.
@@kayade5305 yes I knew that part I was more referring to it in the context of the movie
32:37 you're halfway right, but it's not pink because of the blood. it's a social commentary first and a horror movie second imo.
@@radioreprise yeah I kinda realised that, but thanks for clarifying
So "Little Shop of Horrors" for hair?
when the sew-in scene was happening i was like “THIS. this is black horror.” i felt that through the screen
Don't get it wet. Oh lawd her weave is a Gremlin.
I-
I thought the same thing!! Especially when I saw them all writhing on the floor like melted gremlins
Too bad it can still kill/drink blood after midnight
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this comment is life lol hahaha
Notice how whenever Kennie is confused by a movie she finds a fine ass person to focus on (ie booboo stewart, secret obsession , 365 days of sexual assult, my teacher my obsession, racers)
365 days of sexual assault
Lol
@@Monochrome_11 how was it sexual assault
@@YTD07 She was kidnapped and developed Stockholm syndrome and he took advantage of her....
Wait which video for booboo stewert??
@@octaviawinter9768 think breaking dawn part 1? Or the one before but I think that's right
I might be having a stroke, but the effects don't look THAT bad to me. Only a couple of shots were particularly awful, most looked fairly ok to me. 🤷♂️
I was thinking the same, I dont think it looks that bad?? I feel like many modern movies have that level of cgi...
I love the scene of her ending Julius tbh, now I understand why it was just so iconic for me is because is nostalgic. But I understand how the younger crowd on Twitter will not feel the same way.
Me too, I didn’t even notice.
They're honestly right on par with what'd you expect from sfx from the 80s lol
same, but maybe i just watched almost all of teen wolf
“Little Weave, Little Weave of Horror”
I hear you!
The smell of beauty supply store is universal to the black diaspora truly
Can you do Truth or Dare? It was a trash movie everyone was obsessed with. TW though bc its very gory and just incredibly dumb. I lost brain cells
Is that the movie where they get "joker smile" and then kill ppl?
@@Monochrome_11 yes
OMG I remember that!!! Idk why there was so much hype surrounding it lol
All my friends wanted to see it but it looked so dumb and outside of Bad movies & a Beat I hate horror movies
Is this the one where they pull out their teeth, and start cutting off body parts? Because if it is, my friends watched it during a sleepover in bed, and my other friend who hates horror movies was on the floor trying to go to sleep listening to the screams of torture.
@@Coffee_Enthusiast YES
BAD HAIR:
It’s basically “EXTE” but with black people and a moral.
That’s exactly what I was thinking of when I saw the trailer a few weeks ago!!
was thinking it the whole time... kinda wanna watch it again hahha
I was wondering if Justin Simien had seen Exte while watching this.
I reviewed Exte: Hair Extensions with Bad Hair on my channel. The director said that he was inspired by Asian hair horror movies.
Lord…that scene of her getting the sew-in hurt my soul
when i was younger i used to think thats how sew-in weaves actually went in until my mom was like "no....that's....unethical and would give you one hell of a scalp infection"
The reason they emphasized the door code is because she needed it after running away from her boss’ floating head part. You actually showed a clip in the video! :)
30:29
Also, Code Switching! They switched a code lol
I wanna shout out that Anna's hair was always very cute. So you could see she tried to make the very best of her 4C hair after that perm. Also I know the sew-in scene was dramatized, but I most definitely had a painful experience the first and last time I got a weave. I had so many scabs in my head...🥺
I appreciated your analysis and it was super interesting to hear from someone who actually liked the movie!
I honestly had no problems with the aesthetics/cgi at all, mainly I took issue with the pacing, it had no business being 1 hr and 42 minutes long and the killer weave didn't make its first kill until 1 hour into the film and I think maybe they could've spent more time on the mechanics of the weave (as you noted when you mentioned how getting it wet didn't always kill it, etc.). My main issue though is the fact that although it does raise some questions about black women and assimilation and hair that are important, the premise of the film seeks to punish the black women in it for doing what they felt they needed to survive
TatzRules Yay valid point but when it comes to media targeting or about black women I think the message should be a lot clearer that it's not meant to shame them. Even if that voice comes from a side character. Think of Get Out the main character isn't blamed for being seduced by a crazy family. Black people were the target of the movie but we were also "in on the joke"
Not gonna lie, with the hair wanting to drink blood & moving around like tentacles, I kept hoping it was gonna start singing "Feed Me." Or there'd be a chorus singing a hair version of "Don't Feed the Plants".
Also, those scenes of hair creeping down the walls or through the doors, that's actually a good spooky visual. Looked like something out of a horror manga by Junji Ito.
Lol can a trio of women come in to sing the exposition to us in every scene for no reason and never be acknowledged in any way.
Or the scene where they were drowning in hair moss reminded me to uzumaki (god i thought i blocked off that memory)
@@glitterberserker1029 look out, look out, look out, LOOK OUT!
It wasn’t made carelessly, however, it does reek of Black man writing Black women. Especially that period scene, wtf
i dont see what youre referring to
Think you just mean men writing woman, stuff like periods have nothing to do with race as we can all relate due to gender
i agree with you, this story coming from a Black man is...not my favorite thing. i cant explain exactly why but its just odd
@@Tuncapoo I think it would matter if a white man wrote this instead, the ignorance would be different in a lot of ways. The specification is totally warranted.
@@Tuncapoo I said what I said.
I hated how her boss was making it seem like her natural was ugly. I liked it tf🙄. But ye this is why I dont like weaves or even the topic of hair.
I can see the director was inspired by a lot of Japanese horror with this because evil hair/hair growth has always been a trope in those films, and this trope worked really well for this movie concept! I also can easily overlook camp and bad cgi if the story is good because some people just don't have the budget and it can be kinda fun for me. One of my favorite horror films is this 2019 Thai film called Inhuman Kiss on Netflix based on the lore and myth of a creature called a krasue. The cgi is not good, ESPECIALLY in the last quarter of the film, but I still enjoyed the hell out of it and loved the bit of camp if carried.
I am going to be bold in saying that your demographic is largely likely not black, and not near our age (I think we are close to our age) . The movie touches on a very important topic black women have been dealing with for years and likely will for years to come. With that being said, younger black girls haven't truly dealt with the brunt of what slightly older women have seen or experienced. I am biracial and my hair has always been seen as "acceptable " but I genuinely enjoyed this movie and the way it touched on this issue! Haha thank you for your entertaining review.
Agreed. To everything you just said.
Same girl. I loved this movie
As a Auntie that got her first weave in the 80's at 15. no we or at least where I had mines done you were not getting the closer like that . we had the good leave out working. but that's not the part i remember the most I had to go to a wearhouse to get the hair. there weren't hair stores in any hood at that time. shit was like being in an underground hair syndicate.lol But after that first weave my folliclly challenged ass was full weave a head .
do nappily ever after next, make this a series about black women and their hair
That was a good movie cause alot of people can relate to that we always have to do our hair a certain way just for someone to take interest in you
That was a good ass movie
@@jasminebarnes108 hell yeah it was i believe many women should watch that movie
@@yoshmarsh8412 that movie was amazing 😉 it really touched me ... Its weird how feminine women have to do a lot to get over masculine man
@@leleste5465 true but now aint nobody even worrying about that since corona happened
I feel like I would’ve appreciated this movie more if it was made by a black woman. Everything about it felt like I was being lectured to by a black man who doesn’t really understand why black women get weaves/wigs.
The cheesiness of the plot wasn’t that bad.
I thought it was made by Lena Waithe?
@@queencleopatra007 It was made by Justin Simien
I thought it was again another joke at our expense.
This also brings up the issue of how some of the most judgemental people of black women's appearance are black men. My stepdad wanted me to get a perm when I was 5 because he thought kinky hair looked ugly. Also, my older step-sister had a perm at an early age, and she always got a lot of attention from boys. My mom didn't accept her natural hair until she was in her 40s, and my stepdad still protested a lot about her going natural.
This movie is the perfect example of attempted camp, which is usually done very poorly. I don’t remember the TH-camr who talked about it, but I remember he referenced how the only reason camp of the 1980s is so hard to replicate is because they are unintentionally camp. They never sought it out. Thats why this movie feels so weird and uncomfortable. It’s trying to be something you can achieve purposefully.
Camp movies were definitely often intentional! All John Waters films, Rocky Horror, But I'm A Cheerleader... they were very purposefully over-the-top and silly. Camp takes skill, and it's easy to mess up, but it's for sure a deliberate artistic choice most of the time.
No one:
The cousin after burning the girls hair off: uhhh... I like ya cut g?
Edit: ty for the likes
I’m sorry but I would’ve slapped the hell out of my cousin💀
I think a movie doesn’t have to be “good” for you to like it, as long as you enjoyed it. It’s entertainment. If it has a message that resonated with you, and it’s not irredeemably terrible, then even if it’s not top-tier cinema it still served the purpose it was intended to.
This movie was sponsored by blue magic and pink lotion and you can't convince me otherwise lol
😂😂😂😂
Blue magic, I can smell it right now😭😭😭
Queen Helene paid for the CGI
Still love pink lotion 🖤 that shit hits!!
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It triggered something for me, cause I worked at a hotel last year and I was just getting into wearing my natural hair, and the general manager told me my hair looked wild and crazy and that I needed to change it. 😞
I am so sorry that happened to you! Screw that manager, your natural hair isn't wild or crazy it's just different from European hair and that's a beautiful, unique, and special thing! So tired of this country making everyone try to squeeze into this one overdone look. Wear your natural hair proud luv!
Fuck him he wild and crazy for that!
They should have made her uncle an auntie instead. Because something doesn't sit right with this man telling his niece what to wear. I like the concept, i just wish people would give more black women the resources to make movies about themselves. It was like tiptoing hotep vibes.
I think it still works because black men are just as guilty of judging black women's hair as white men and women. My own dad wanted me to get a perm when I was 5 because he thought natural hair looked ugly.
@@halfdemonprince that’s true
Hoteps are realistic (and annoying🙄)
i cant believe she just hit 500k she's been making good quality videos but she only JUST REACHED HALF A MILLION WHAT
So I just asked my mom (who was around during the 80’s) and she said that no, closures and frontals were not a thing.
Girl you have to watch ‘Idle Hands’! It’s about a stoner who gets his hand possessed and hilarity ensues. It’s a whole trip and a half lol 😂
Dead Meat did a killcount as well
I love idle hands bahaha
Isn’t that an old movie? I saw it years ago it was good
@@waonae4955 yeah I just saw it this morning!
@@traceylomax2156 yeah it came out in 1999
The real horror was the start when her hair was permed, and then again when the weave was being done.... i watched those scenes through gritted teeth and narrow eyes.
I thought that the film was fun with an underlying issue's of black women having to have flowing hair to be accepted, as well as the notion of sewing other people's hair into your head.
I thought the film was good. I don't think every black film has to be serious and have meaning, be historical or be overly comedic.
I enjoyed it.
Okay I just have to say THANK YOU for being like the only TH-camr who actually gave me a trigger warning. I have PTSD from a sexual assault and I know it’s more common for people to say it now but it’s still really common for me to be watching a movie review and suddenly be triggered bc the creator flashes a scene with no context for emphasis or to make a point
I also have ptsd and have been sexually assaulted. I see you! ❤️🥰
“Tryna flip ya cap open- whatchu thinking 😂😭” this sent me but ngl that scene made my head hurt and felt flashbacks
When she said that thing of "beign the person I was supposed to be" girl I stopped laughing because it hit close home. My sisters always had this beautiful dark big wavy hair while I had this big afro like curls that I never knew how to take care of, and when I had my first ever relaxer I just felt like I was "finally beautiful" my sister even said to me "wow, we actually look like sisters now". Now my hair is back to normal but I'm in constant debate on getting it permanently straighten because somehow it had become part of me trying to embrace who I am appart from my family
being part of a family is great. However, discovering and finding your own identity outside of your family is essential to your growth. You gotta find yourself outside of your family, and that includes hair.
💗💗 Your Natural Hair is Beautiful 💗💗
@Abidjanaise I think they mean getting a perm? edit: to the op I’m sure your hair is beautiful and it makes you unique. If you feel comfortable enough, you should try and embrace it but that’s 100% up to you
@Abidjanaise With a relaxer, yeah. But you'd have to keep applying it to the new growth every couple of months to keep your entire hair uniformly straight.
If you want to relax it, keep doin it if you personally like it (just be careful of how you do it. I'm sure you know already). And if you want to try your natural hair, know it can be a bit of work, but if you wanna embrace it, go ahead! Just do you!
I think this might be one of those movies where like... If you get it, you get it. There's something in there for anyone who's had a black woman's hair experience in a Eurocentric society, but if you haven't, this movie probably seems like stupid trash. But like... People disliking movies made for black audiences is not new at all, I'm not surprised to see this labelled as a bad movie by most.
I feel like you just hit the nail on the head! Cause this is how I feel too
100%
I said in another comment section that I feel like white filmmakers get budgets thrown at them to experiment and make any kind of movie they want, good or shitty, and no one bats an eyelash but black filmmakers have to work twice as hard for a budget and their films get judged 5 times as harshly.
The concept of critiquing the black hair experience isn't new, but I think the way they did it is unique and I appreciate it and genuinely enjoyed it.
Exactly. This movie is great but I see why people don't like it. It's because they don't get it. I think it's refreshing to see a black dark comedy. As a black horror movie fan our representation is always killed out of a horror movie in the first 10 mins and I think the reason for that is Hollywood sells black people on corny comedy movies not horror or anything psychological.
Anna’s last name is “bloodsew”(not sure how it’s spelled tbh) 👀. And I’m not sure if it was purposeful, but they made her uncle a dark skinned black man that loves telling black women to learn about their African roots all the while having a racially ambiguous wife with straightened hair.
Bledsoe maybe? Like the actress?
I think the “weave monsters” are dead because they were already dead. Think about it. Zora was killed and is only walking around bc of the hair. Perhaps the other women died off camera in their own side stories...
Yeah exactly! That's what I was thinking!
I can see how the water effected the weave, I immediately thought of The Wizard of Oz. How the water melted the Bad Witch 🧙♀️or How water would puff up natural hair and make it “untamed” and the spirit of those Witches needed to tame the host to take over later on. I can go on, on so many things Bad Hair messages can be.
This is the longest Bad Movies and a Beat to date and I didn’t realize how long it was until I was exiting the video 😂
This is gonna be appreciated by next generations.
Oml as a white girl, I’ve never gotten weave, but I grew up in a school that was 90% black, and my best friend was black, and I was over at her house one time when she was getting a sew in, and omg that looks painful already and seeing that movie I was like holy god that’s scary...
I only call this movie "Killer Hair" and I want to know what happened to Kelly Rowland at the end. A lot of people show up in this movie and there's no conclusion for them. Except for the people who died. But, the plantation people took care of all those bodies...I think the bodies at the end in the truck could have been the accumulation of hair murder. They also could have been new people that they had in the truck to feed the hair during transport...I don't know 🤷🏾♀️
I think this movie is very Little Shop of Horrors: "Feed Me Seymour"
I wanted to know what happened to Kelly so badly. I think they used the bodies as fertilizer for the hair trees.
Good point! --> "They also could have been new people that they had in the truck to feed the hair during transport"
i think it was implied that she survived and got more popular in music because of her new weave and light eyes which is the story of many real life artists.
I'm offended pink lotion smelt so bomb, I won't listen to this black blasphemy 🖐🏾
RIGHT! 😂
Me too!!
But it was always so cold to me😂
They smell nostalgic at this point to me lmao. I used to be indifferent to the smell, but now it smells like my childhood
right i love pink lotion😭😭
So glad you gave this movie a second (and third 🥴) chance. I really enjoyed it and loved seeing all of the old school Black Hollywood Royalty👌🏽
Omg yes!!! Especially mr blair underwood🤤🤤🤤
@@cleomumford1741 Chile that man will always be sexy 😩
Yess!! I will say I did not expect to see Usher in there tho 💀
@@prettyyvee IKR 😩
I really liked it and I think people forget that most "horror" films aren't very good anyway. There's different genres and this one was definitely giving off the campy genre- which is what it was going for and achieved, imo. I also thought that the commentary was done in a mostly thoughtful way too.
Every time she said "yes it looks dated, because it's supposed to" all I can hear is "we're on a cow farm, theresgonnabecowsoutside" LMAO
I didn’t think it was particularly bad, I found relatable in a lot of ways
I actually think the symbolism and commentary on assimilation and gentrification is well done. I think the killer weave takes away from the overall message but I could also see it being symbolism in itself to show how the need for a weave to get further in life and be viewed as respectful in a white western world becomes consuming and detrimental to the wearer and others around them. A very interesting take on the issue and I def agree it isn't a bad movie!
The way you defend this movie is exactly how I imaged people defend ”Hear me out” movies during the pitch meeting
I loved the movie. I tried to assimilate by relaxing my hair. Most of the women in my family have straightened their hair by chemical or heated methods. I was pressured to do so too. I wished I hadn't because the chemicals made my hair fall out in spots. I've returned to a more natural look however I still miss my straight hair. Straight hair is so much fun to play with and style. Braided hair is fun also.
Hair acceptance in the workplace has been so difficult for African-Americans men and women. Women are often expected to adopt a pleasing look that is often a safe Caucasian look. One thing that bothered me about the family is they too are guilty of assimilating their hair.
Girl, you are not alone in the THIRST for Mr. Blair Underwood. It's real.
Also "I know it's profound and all, but my dude, I'm gonna need you to blink" had me dead.
Thank you for this video and the laughs!
Kendall all the way through the review:
Now hear me out, it is not that bad.