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 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,...
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 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.
Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get a new episode every Wednesday. You can subscribe on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Amazon Music, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS.
Episode 235: Bad Hair (2020)
Don’t wig out and prepare for a whiter– *ahem* Wider audience,...
- 6/26/2023
- by Trace Thurman
- bloody-disgusting.com
Plot: Kyra Gardner, the daughter of special effects artist and puppeteer Tony Gardner, takes a journey through the Child’s Play franchise.
Review: Friday the 13th has Crystal Lake Memories (both the book and the movie). The Nightmare on Elm Street series has the documentary Never Sleep Again. But a lot of the big horror franchises are still waiting to receive their definitive documentaries. Last year, I read the book Reign of Chucky, a film-by-film examination of the Child’s Play / Chucky franchise that was packed with interesting information about the making of the movies. But since it was assembled during the production of season 2 of the Chucky TV series, it was missing one major element: authors Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins weren’t able to land interviews with some of the most prominent players in the franchise, like Don Mancini, who has written every entry in the series, or actors Brad Dourif,...
Review: Friday the 13th has Crystal Lake Memories (both the book and the movie). The Nightmare on Elm Street series has the documentary Never Sleep Again. But a lot of the big horror franchises are still waiting to receive their definitive documentaries. Last year, I read the book Reign of Chucky, a film-by-film examination of the Child’s Play / Chucky franchise that was packed with interesting information about the making of the movies. But since it was assembled during the production of season 2 of the Chucky TV series, it was missing one major element: authors Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins weren’t able to land interviews with some of the most prominent players in the franchise, like Don Mancini, who has written every entry in the series, or actors Brad Dourif,...
- 4/4/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
When Issa Rae talks about creating Insecure‘s resident riddler, Thug Yoda, she says the loving father and Blood was inspired by a similar man she once saw at the post office, who was cursing into his phone one minute and doting on his young daughter the next.
Tristen J. Winger, who enjoyed playing the character for five seasons right up to the montage in one of the HBO comedy’s series finale closing scenes, says Thug Yoda’s honesty is what he and fans admired most about him.
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Tristen J. Winger, who enjoyed playing the character for five seasons right up to the montage in one of the HBO comedy’s series finale closing scenes, says Thug Yoda’s honesty is what he and fans admired most about him.
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- 1/1/2022
- by Mekeisha Madden Toby
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Dear White People creator Justin Simien is getting into business with Paramount Television Studios. The multi-hyphenate director, writer and producer has signed a three-year overall deal with the studio. Under the pact, he’ll develop premium television series aimed at various platforms via his Culture Machine production company.
“During Dear White People’s incredible four season run, it’s been an honor to facilitate bold-by-design, inclusive-by-default storytelling that pushes for better, more nuanced representation on screen as well as in the writers room, the director’s chair and across all departments,”said Simien. “Backed by an enthusiastic dream team at Paramount Television Studios, I’m thrilled to have the resources to apply my passion for identifying and developing the stars, storytellers and artists of tomorrow on an exponentially larger scale. As our industry grapples to attract an evolving, increasingly diverse consumer base, Culture Machine is poised and dedicated to meet that demand.
“During Dear White People’s incredible four season run, it’s been an honor to facilitate bold-by-design, inclusive-by-default storytelling that pushes for better, more nuanced representation on screen as well as in the writers room, the director’s chair and across all departments,”said Simien. “Backed by an enthusiastic dream team at Paramount Television Studios, I’m thrilled to have the resources to apply my passion for identifying and developing the stars, storytellers and artists of tomorrow on an exponentially larger scale. As our industry grapples to attract an evolving, increasingly diverse consumer base, Culture Machine is poised and dedicated to meet that demand.
- 8/6/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
From 18th Century New Orleans, where laws were enacted to keep supposedly free Creole women from displaying their natural hair, to 2019, when New York and California led the charge as individual states began to ban race-based hair discrimination, African American women's hair has long been seen as politically contentious. Law is only part of the issue, with a limited ability to influence how things actually play out in competitive workplaces. Following a heroine who is determined to carve out a high profile career and willing to make a few sacrifices if necessary, Bad Hair examines the real world horrors of the prejudice behind all this through the lens of contemporary horror comedy.
Our heroine is Anna (Elle Lorraine), a music programme host who is getting along fine at the studio where she works until her boss is suddenly replaced by a glamorous former supermodel (Vanessa Williams). As a raft of.
Our heroine is Anna (Elle Lorraine), a music programme host who is getting along fine at the studio where she works until her boss is suddenly replaced by a glamorous former supermodel (Vanessa Williams). As a raft of.
- 12/16/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Point Foundation, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) scholarship fund, today announced they will launch the Point Honors Los Angeles virtual event on November 14, 2020.
During the online event, Point will honor two-time Tony Award Winner and Emmy Award Nominee Joe Mantello (The Boys in the Band) with the Point Foundation Legend Award, and award-winning writer/director Justin Simien (Dear White People; Bad Hair) with the organization’s Horizon Award.
“We’re thrilled to honor Joe Mantello and Justin Simien for their contributions to LGBTQ representation on stage, and in film and television,” said Jorge Valencia, Executive Director and CEO of Point Foundation. “We’re also excited to have the iconic En Vogue join us for a special performance. During this most unusual academic year, we want to remind everyone that education is essential. Our scholars need our support more than ever as they deal with...
During the online event, Point will honor two-time Tony Award Winner and Emmy Award Nominee Joe Mantello (The Boys in the Band) with the Point Foundation Legend Award, and award-winning writer/director Justin Simien (Dear White People; Bad Hair) with the organization’s Horizon Award.
“We’re thrilled to honor Joe Mantello and Justin Simien for their contributions to LGBTQ representation on stage, and in film and television,” said Jorge Valencia, Executive Director and CEO of Point Foundation. “We’re also excited to have the iconic En Vogue join us for a special performance. During this most unusual academic year, we want to remind everyone that education is essential. Our scholars need our support more than ever as they deal with...
- 11/13/2020
- Look to the Stars
For much of the world, 2020 has embodied the exact traits of a well-crafted horror movie: twisted, uncompromising, and something nobody really saw coming. If nothing else, the unsettling nature of a year that has been hobbled by both a global pandemic and a divisive election cycle (among other eerie twists) is a reminder that scariness comes in many forms, and the traditional horror formula that many of us celebrate on Halloween is just one piece of the equation. Many of the movies released this year are scary in unexpected ways, either because they tap into timely anxieties or illustrate the precise nature of terror in these uncertain times.
Here are 13 recent disturbing highlights. Don’t watch them alone.
“Antebellum”
Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz’s feature debut may lack subtlety, but often makes up for it with a bone-chilling terror that suggests everything onscreen is very real. The Janelle Monae-starring...
Here are 13 recent disturbing highlights. Don’t watch them alone.
“Antebellum”
Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz’s feature debut may lack subtlety, but often makes up for it with a bone-chilling terror that suggests everything onscreen is very real. The Janelle Monae-starring...
- 10/26/2020
- by Eric Kohn, David Ehrlich, Kate Erbland and Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Writer-director Justin Simien remembers how he was far too young when he saw his first-ever horror movie, “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge.”
It was his aunt who shared her love for movies — not just of horror, but all genres — with a young Simien. He recalls picking up on the movie’s “gay subtext.” “The supposedly, subtextual one…I watched it at a very inappropriate age and had no idea conceptually what was even happening in the movie, but I loved Freddy Krueger,” he tells Variety’s new Awards Circuit Podcast.
Simien, who wrote and directed the “Dear White People” film and series, transitions to horror with Hulu’s “Bad Hair,” which is now streaming on the service. Set in 1989 at the height of the popularity of new jack swing music, the film follows Anna (Elle Lorraine), an assistant who aspires to star in her own show at a music TV station.
It was his aunt who shared her love for movies — not just of horror, but all genres — with a young Simien. He recalls picking up on the movie’s “gay subtext.” “The supposedly, subtextual one…I watched it at a very inappropriate age and had no idea conceptually what was even happening in the movie, but I loved Freddy Krueger,” he tells Variety’s new Awards Circuit Podcast.
Simien, who wrote and directed the “Dear White People” film and series, transitions to horror with Hulu’s “Bad Hair,” which is now streaming on the service. Set in 1989 at the height of the popularity of new jack swing music, the film follows Anna (Elle Lorraine), an assistant who aspires to star in her own show at a music TV station.
- 10/23/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Writer and director Justin Simien said his new horror film, “Bad Hair,” is dedicated to the strength of the Black women in his life.
“‘Bad Hair’ is a very weird love letter to Black women and the unparalleled power they possess to endure and persevere,” Simien said in a pre-recorded intro at the Hulu film’s drive-in premiere on Thursday night at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. “It’s my satirical horror love letter. Is that a thing? I guess we’re making it a thing.”
The movie tells the story of a Black woman (Elle Lorraine) forced to pay for a weave in order to continue her career in television and be taken seriously by her boss. Things turn for the worse when her new hair takes on a life of its own, a superstition she always dismissed when her father said he believed in it.
Though the film is comedic in nature,...
“‘Bad Hair’ is a very weird love letter to Black women and the unparalleled power they possess to endure and persevere,” Simien said in a pre-recorded intro at the Hulu film’s drive-in premiere on Thursday night at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. “It’s my satirical horror love letter. Is that a thing? I guess we’re making it a thing.”
The movie tells the story of a Black woman (Elle Lorraine) forced to pay for a weave in order to continue her career in television and be taken seriously by her boss. Things turn for the worse when her new hair takes on a life of its own, a superstition she always dismissed when her father said he believed in it.
Though the film is comedic in nature,...
- 10/23/2020
- by Eli Countryman
- Variety Film + TV
The specialty streaming space will be On the Rocks this weekend — so to speak. Sofia Coppola’s father-daughter dramedy is set to drop on Apple TV+ on Friday and it seems like light-hearted movie-watching fare from the Oscar-winning filmmaker.
Deadline’s resident critic Pete Hammond seems to sign off on the sentiment that this will bring a little more fun than past Coppola auteur-driven pics like The Beguiled. In his review from when the pic premiered at the New York Film Festival in September, he wrote, “On the Rocks is more than just a riotously funny, wonderfully witty and smart film — it is a much-needed one.” Hammond added, “Coppola’s movie is also a bit of a pre-pandemic valentine to New York City, a reminder of the Big Apple’s pure joy, and even without Bill Murray to light it up that would probably be enough.”
On the Rocks stars Rashida Jones as Laura,...
Deadline’s resident critic Pete Hammond seems to sign off on the sentiment that this will bring a little more fun than past Coppola auteur-driven pics like The Beguiled. In his review from when the pic premiered at the New York Film Festival in September, he wrote, “On the Rocks is more than just a riotously funny, wonderfully witty and smart film — it is a much-needed one.” Hammond added, “Coppola’s movie is also a bit of a pre-pandemic valentine to New York City, a reminder of the Big Apple’s pure joy, and even without Bill Murray to light it up that would probably be enough.”
On the Rocks stars Rashida Jones as Laura,...
- 10/23/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
In the satirical horror film “Bad Hair,” which debuts Oct. 23 on Hulu, Elle Lorraine plays Anna, a young woman who adopts a new look in order to land a hosting gig at a “106 & Park”-like music countdown show. The hairstyle gets Anna the recognition she’s after, but it comes at a price. Though the film, which also stars Kelly Rowland, Vanessa Williams, Blair Underwood, Lena Waithe and Jay Pharoah, is set in the late 1980s, the struggle to make it in Hollywood is everlasting. The film’s credits read: “Introducing Elle Lorraine.” Says the rising star, “When I saw it at Sundance, I literally shrieked in my seat. To see that title card on-screen was like a dream come true. I’ve been imagining it for a very long time.”
Audiences may recognize you from “Insecure.” How does it feel to make your big-screen debut? It’s been pretty magical,...
Audiences may recognize you from “Insecure.” How does it feel to make your big-screen debut? It’s been pretty magical,...
- 10/16/2020
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Justin Simien grew up loving horror movies, largely thanks to his aunt Zora, who, in his words, “probably messed me up quite a bit by letting me watch things like ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ at a shockingly young age.” But he wasn’t a fan of simplistic slasher films; he was drawn to what he calls “social commentary thrillers” like “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Stepford Wives,” which incorporated valuable messages among the scares.
And yet, the director never thought about making a movie in the horror genre. “Honestly, it was just white to me,” he says. Instead, Simien went on to write and direct the acclaimed film “Dear White People” and its spinoff Netflix series. One day, he and his friend and producer Julia Lebedev saw a “bonkers” South Korean movie called “The Wig” about — you guessed it — a possessed hairpiece. The two started joking about what Simien’s...
And yet, the director never thought about making a movie in the horror genre. “Honestly, it was just white to me,” he says. Instead, Simien went on to write and direct the acclaimed film “Dear White People” and its spinoff Netflix series. One day, he and his friend and producer Julia Lebedev saw a “bonkers” South Korean movie called “The Wig” about — you guessed it — a possessed hairpiece. The two started joking about what Simien’s...
- 10/14/2020
- by Jenelle Riley and Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Neon has snatched the domestic theatrical rights to Justin Simien’s new horror film “Bad Hair.”
The Oscar-winning distributor behind “Parasite” will take the film out to drive-in theaters nationwide before it debuts on Hulu on Oct. 23, Variety has learned.
Markets will include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit, Austin, Sacramento and Las Vegas. “Bad Hair” was acquired for millions out of Sundance this year, where it was received as an energetic American take on hair horror and a probe of Black female identity.
Hulu is Neon’s streaming video partner, and the companies have enjoyed fruitful partnerships on titles like “Palm Springs,” the Sundance sale record-breaker from Andy Samberg that premiered this summer.
“Bad Hair” has played the Essence Festival, CurlFest, UrbanWorld — where Simien received the 2020 festival ambassador award — Chicago Film Festival, New York Comic Con, Beyond Fest and One Music Festival. Simien wrote and directed the movie,...
The Oscar-winning distributor behind “Parasite” will take the film out to drive-in theaters nationwide before it debuts on Hulu on Oct. 23, Variety has learned.
Markets will include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit, Austin, Sacramento and Las Vegas. “Bad Hair” was acquired for millions out of Sundance this year, where it was received as an energetic American take on hair horror and a probe of Black female identity.
Hulu is Neon’s streaming video partner, and the companies have enjoyed fruitful partnerships on titles like “Palm Springs,” the Sundance sale record-breaker from Andy Samberg that premiered this summer.
“Bad Hair” has played the Essence Festival, CurlFest, UrbanWorld — where Simien received the 2020 festival ambassador award — Chicago Film Festival, New York Comic Con, Beyond Fest and One Music Festival. Simien wrote and directed the movie,...
- 10/13/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: After a successful West Coast/East Coast partnership over the past three years, Platform PR and Serge PR are becoming one — officially partnering under the Platform banner.
Scott Boute (Serge PR CEO) will join Siri Garber (Platform PR CEO) and Angela Mach (Platform PR Vice President) to head up the West Coast office in Los Angeles, with industry veteran Darren Olcsvary remaining head of New York operations. Jane Negline will continue to run the Australian branch of Platform which includes clients Danielle Cormack (Wentworth), Miranda Tapsell (Top End Wedding), Sam Frost (Home & Away), Nicole da Silva (Wentworth), Belinda Bromilow (Hulu’s The Great), Rodger Corser and Geraldine Hakewill (Wanted).
“I am so thrilled to partner with Serge PR,” said Garber. We have worked together for three years now and felt that this was the perfect time to evolve and move in a new direction. It is exciting...
Scott Boute (Serge PR CEO) will join Siri Garber (Platform PR CEO) and Angela Mach (Platform PR Vice President) to head up the West Coast office in Los Angeles, with industry veteran Darren Olcsvary remaining head of New York operations. Jane Negline will continue to run the Australian branch of Platform which includes clients Danielle Cormack (Wentworth), Miranda Tapsell (Top End Wedding), Sam Frost (Home & Away), Nicole da Silva (Wentworth), Belinda Bromilow (Hulu’s The Great), Rodger Corser and Geraldine Hakewill (Wanted).
“I am so thrilled to partner with Serge PR,” said Garber. We have worked together for three years now and felt that this was the perfect time to evolve and move in a new direction. It is exciting...
- 10/6/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Bad Hair
Hulu’s newest horror-satire film takes the meaning of a bad hair day to a whole new level. It’s 1989, and hair is everything — especially in the entertainment industry, which Elle Lorraine’s character is desperately trying to break into. After a series of false starts and disappointments, Vanessa Williams takes her under her wing and gives her the one thing that she’s been missing that will make all the difference — a new weave. However, there’s something different, and it’s not just Lorraine’s newfound style.
Hulu’s newest horror-satire film takes the meaning of a bad hair day to a whole new level. It’s 1989, and hair is everything — especially in the entertainment industry, which Elle Lorraine’s character is desperately trying to break into. After a series of false starts and disappointments, Vanessa Williams takes her under her wing and gives her the one thing that she’s been missing that will make all the difference — a new weave. However, there’s something different, and it’s not just Lorraine’s newfound style.
- 10/3/2020
- by Natalli Amato
- Rollingstone.com
If you're looking for more hair-centric horror after reading the recent Let's Scare Bryan to Death column on Exte, then you'll want to mark October 23rd on your calendar for the release of Justin Simien’s new movie Bad Hair on Hulu, and following the teaser trailer back in August, the official trailer has now been revealed.
"In this horror satire set in 1989, Bad Hair follows an ambitious young woman (Elle Lorraine) who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career comes at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.
The film stars Elle Lorraine, Vanessa Williams, Lena Waithe, Laverne Cox, Jay Pharoah, Kelly Rowland, Blair Underwood, James Van Der Beek, and Usher Raymond.
Bad Hair is written and directed by Justin Simien. Simien also serves as a producer alongside Julia Lebedev,...
"In this horror satire set in 1989, Bad Hair follows an ambitious young woman (Elle Lorraine) who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career comes at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.
The film stars Elle Lorraine, Vanessa Williams, Lena Waithe, Laverne Cox, Jay Pharoah, Kelly Rowland, Blair Underwood, James Van Der Beek, and Usher Raymond.
Bad Hair is written and directed by Justin Simien. Simien also serves as a producer alongside Julia Lebedev,...
- 10/2/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Hulu has released the first full trailer for Justin Simien’s Sundance horror Bad Hair, which offers a look at racist beauty norms while playing against a chilling rendition to Bell Biv DeVoe’s “Poison.”
In Simien’s followup to Dear White People, the satirical thriller follows an ambitious ’80s music TV staffer named Anna (Elle Lorraine) who gets a fabulous weave in order to succeed in an image-obsessed world of music television. Despite her new and accepted look sparking a flourishing career, Anna soon learns the horrifying cost of her new hair, which takes on a life of its own.
Bad ...
In Simien’s followup to Dear White People, the satirical thriller follows an ambitious ’80s music TV staffer named Anna (Elle Lorraine) who gets a fabulous weave in order to succeed in an image-obsessed world of music television. Despite her new and accepted look sparking a flourishing career, Anna soon learns the horrifying cost of her new hair, which takes on a life of its own.
Bad ...
- 10/2/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Hulu has released the first full trailer for Justin Simien’s Sundance horror Bad Hair, which offers a look at racist beauty norms while playing against a chilling rendition to Bell Biv DeVoe’s “Poison.”
In Simien’s followup to Dear White People, the satirical thriller follows an ambitious ’80s music TV staffer named Anna (Elle Lorraine) who gets a fabulous weave in order to succeed in an image-obsessed world of music television. Despite her new and accepted look sparking a flourishing career, Anna soon learns the horrifying cost of her new hair, which takes on a life of its own.
Bad ...
In Simien’s followup to Dear White People, the satirical thriller follows an ambitious ’80s music TV staffer named Anna (Elle Lorraine) who gets a fabulous weave in order to succeed in an image-obsessed world of music television. Despite her new and accepted look sparking a flourishing career, Anna soon learns the horrifying cost of her new hair, which takes on a life of its own.
Bad ...
- 10/2/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I know Sion Sono has already made a movie about hair extensions that kill but Justin Simien's Bad Hair is such the perfect mix of horror and social commentary that it could well overshadow Sono's crazy cult-classic.
Elle Lorraine ("Insecure") stars as Anna, a young, ambitious woman trying to make it in the cut-throat world of late-80s music television. An executive assistant with big dreams, when her boss tells her that she needs to do something about her hair in order to elevate her career, Anna visits the local hairdresser (Laverne Cox) for some extensions. And then, just as her career starts to take off, Anna becomes convinced that her new hair might just be haunted.
The film also stars Vanessa Williams, Lena Waithe, Jay Pharoa, Kelly Rowland, Blair Underwood, James Van...
Elle Lorraine ("Insecure") stars as Anna, a young, ambitious woman trying to make it in the cut-throat world of late-80s music television. An executive assistant with big dreams, when her boss tells her that she needs to do something about her hair in order to elevate her career, Anna visits the local hairdresser (Laverne Cox) for some extensions. And then, just as her career starts to take off, Anna becomes convinced that her new hair might just be haunted.
The film also stars Vanessa Williams, Lena Waithe, Jay Pharoa, Kelly Rowland, Blair Underwood, James Van...
- 10/2/2020
- QuietEarth.us
Set in 1989, Bad Hair stars Elle Lorraine as Anne, an ambitious young woman who is forced to get a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career comes at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may just have a mind of its own. Feel free to chime in with "Simpsons did it" in the comments. [Seemore] Hulu has…...
- 10/1/2020
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
"In a perfect world, a woman would be able to wear her hair the way she wants to." More October horror! Hulu has debuted the full-length official trailer for the acclaimed, outrageous hair horror film Bad Hair, which originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. This is the second feature film from Dear White People director Justin Simien, and it's launching on Hulu just before Halloween. In 1989 an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of TV. However, her flourishing career may come at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a(n evil) mind of its own. Starring Elle Lorraine as Anna, including Vanessa Williams, Jay Pharoah, Lena Waithe, Blair Underwood, Laverne Cox, Michelle Hurd, Judith Scott, Robin Thede, Kelly Rowland, Ashley Blaine Featherson, with James Van Der Beek and Usher. This is quite...
- 10/1/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Just in time for Halloween month, Hulu has released the first official trailer for its alluring horror satire “Bad Hair,” the second feature film from “Dear White People” creator Justin Simien. Simien’s debut feature was released in 2014, which led to the eponymous hit Netflix series, set to release its fourth and final season later this year. Though the popular show will be bowing out, clearly Simien isn’t slowing down anytime soon. After a successful premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “Bad Hair” will be released on Hulu later this month. From the looks of this trailer, it’s sure to be a hit.
Per Hulu’s official synopsis: “In this horror satire set in 1989, Bad Hair follows an ambitious young woman (Elle Lorraine) who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career comes at a great...
Per Hulu’s official synopsis: “In this horror satire set in 1989, Bad Hair follows an ambitious young woman (Elle Lorraine) who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career comes at a great...
- 10/1/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
At some point in the near-future, we’re due to hit a pandemic-induced entertainment drought, when production shutdowns will slow new releases to a trickle. We’re clearly not there yet, however. Though blockbuster movies keep getting pushed back further and further, streaming services are still moving full steam ahead — this October, you can catch a once-in-a-lifetime concert film, an offbeat horror movie about killer hair, an all-star biopic of a highly political court case, a doc on death (sort of) and a stunning Italian adaptation of a Jack London book.
- 9/28/2020
- by Keith Phipps
- Rollingstone.com
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquires U.K. distribution rights from FilmNation Entertainment for Justin Simien’s “Bad Hair,” which will be released in British movie theaters on Nov. 27.
The film received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year, following in the footsteps of Simien’s directorial debut “Dear White People” in 2014.
A satirical horror movie set in 1989, “Bad Hair” follows an ambitious young woman (Elle Lorraine) who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career comes at great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.
In addition to Elle Lorraine’s breakout leading role, the ensemble cast includes Vanessa Williams (“Soul Food”), Lena Waithe (“Master of None”), Laverne Cox (“Orange Is the New Black”), Jay Pharoah, Kelly Rowland, Blair Underwood (“Set It Off”), James Van Der Beek (“Dawson’s Creek”), Chanté Adams (“The Photograph”) and Usher.
The film received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year, following in the footsteps of Simien’s directorial debut “Dear White People” in 2014.
A satirical horror movie set in 1989, “Bad Hair” follows an ambitious young woman (Elle Lorraine) who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career comes at great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.
In addition to Elle Lorraine’s breakout leading role, the ensemble cast includes Vanessa Williams (“Soul Food”), Lena Waithe (“Master of None”), Laverne Cox (“Orange Is the New Black”), Jay Pharoah, Kelly Rowland, Blair Underwood (“Set It Off”), James Van Der Beek (“Dawson’s Creek”), Chanté Adams (“The Photograph”) and Usher.
- 9/24/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Urbanworld Film Festival will open its 24th edition with David Oyelowo’s directorial debut “The Water Man” on Sept. 23.
Oyelowo stars in the fantasy-adventure film that follows a boy who sets out on a quest to save his ill mother by searching for a mythic figure said to have magical healing powers. A conversation with Oyelowo, Rosario Dawson, Lonnie Chavis and Amiah Miller moderated by Ava DuVernay will immediately follow the screening, as well as a special music performance by Alice Smith. “The Water Man” will premiere on Sept. 19 at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.
“In an unimaginable year of change, we remain inspired by the creativity, culture and community that prevail in this brave new virtual world,” said Gabrielle Glore, festival director and head of programming. “Powerful storytelling is now more important than ever and Urbanworld is proud to be a consistent platform that brings Black, Indigenous and...
Oyelowo stars in the fantasy-adventure film that follows a boy who sets out on a quest to save his ill mother by searching for a mythic figure said to have magical healing powers. A conversation with Oyelowo, Rosario Dawson, Lonnie Chavis and Amiah Miller moderated by Ava DuVernay will immediately follow the screening, as well as a special music performance by Alice Smith. “The Water Man” will premiere on Sept. 19 at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.
“In an unimaginable year of change, we remain inspired by the creativity, culture and community that prevail in this brave new virtual world,” said Gabrielle Glore, festival director and head of programming. “Powerful storytelling is now more important than ever and Urbanworld is proud to be a consistent platform that brings Black, Indigenous and...
- 9/17/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
On Friday, September 4, Multiple Sclerosis (Ms) advocate and Center Without Walls founder, Nancy Davis welcomed guests to the Rose Bowl for a very special reimagined live drive-in Race to Erase Ms Gala.
Marg Helgenberger Attends 27th Race To Erase Ms Drive-In
Credit/Copyright: Rich Fury/Getty Iamges
For the first time ever, in light of the current pandemic, guests were invited to “Drive-In” for an evening of socially distanced music, celebration, and raising funds and awareness for this life-altering disease. The event raised over $1.4 Million to benefit the Race to Erase Ms and its Center Without Walls program, a collaboration of top Ms research centers working together as a team on ground-breaking research with the goal of treating and, ultimately, finding a cure for Ms. The event honored Davis’s son Jason, who passed away earlier this year, with a very special posthumous “Medal of Hope.”
The event opened with...
Marg Helgenberger Attends 27th Race To Erase Ms Drive-In
Credit/Copyright: Rich Fury/Getty Iamges
For the first time ever, in light of the current pandemic, guests were invited to “Drive-In” for an evening of socially distanced music, celebration, and raising funds and awareness for this life-altering disease. The event raised over $1.4 Million to benefit the Race to Erase Ms and its Center Without Walls program, a collaboration of top Ms research centers working together as a team on ground-breaking research with the goal of treating and, ultimately, finding a cure for Ms. The event honored Davis’s son Jason, who passed away earlier this year, with a very special posthumous “Medal of Hope.”
The event opened with...
- 9/10/2020
- Look to the Stars
Following a premiere at this year’s Sundance, Justin Simien’s long-awaited follow-up to Dear White People is arriving this October on Hulu. Bad Hair is a horror satire that centers on a young woman named Anna who gets a weave in order to find success in the world of television. She soon realizes that her weave might have taken on a life of its own. The film boasts a huge cast which includes Vanessa Williams, Lena Waithe, Blair Underwood, Laverne Cox, Jay Pharaoh, Robin Thede, James Van Der Beek, Usher, Kelly Rowland, in addition to Elle Lorraine (Insecure) as Anna.
“In Bad Hair I wanted to use the language of psychological thrillers and classics in the horror genre to interrogate how systems of white supremacy are often disguised as opportunities for Black people,” the director said. “I also wanted to showcase Black women in a genre that typically excludes...
“In Bad Hair I wanted to use the language of psychological thrillers and classics in the horror genre to interrogate how systems of white supremacy are often disguised as opportunities for Black people,” the director said. “I also wanted to showcase Black women in a genre that typically excludes...
- 8/17/2020
- by Stephen Hladik
- The Film Stage
"You're not tender-headed, are you?" Hulu has revealed the first teaser trailer for the acclaimed, outrageous hair horror film Bad Hair, which originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. This is the second feature film from Dear White People director Justin Simien, and it's launching on Hulu just before Halloween later this year. In 1989 an ambitious young woman gets a weave 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(n evil) mind of its own. Starring Elle Lorraine as Anna, with an ensemble cast including Vanessa Williams, Jay Pharoah, Lena Waithe, Blair Underwood, Laverne Cox, Michelle Hurd, Judith Scott, Robin Thede, Ashley Blaine Featherson, Kelly Rowland, with James Van Der Beek and Usher. This is one horrifying teaser, just the right amount of fright and cringe.
- 8/13/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
As if life outside your body wasn’t already scary enough, what if your hair could actually turn on you? That’s the central premise of Justin Simien’s Sundance sensation “Bad Hair,” a throwback horror-satire about a killer weave, and inspired by horror classics of the 1970s and ’80s. Ahead of the film’s Hulu premiere on October 23, the cool and creepy first teaser has arrived. Watch below.
Written and directed by “Dear White People” filmmaker Simien, this 1989-set thriller stars breakout Elle Lorraine as the survivor of a scalp burn from a perm gone wrong. To impress her dreadlocked boss at a music-video TV show, she’s asked to get a weave — but the weave comes with a mind of its own. The movie also stars Vanessa Williams, Lena Waithe, Laverne Cox, Jay Pharoah, Kelly Rowland, Blair Underwood, James Van Der Beek, and Usher Raymond.
“I follow my obsessions down the rabbit hole,...
Written and directed by “Dear White People” filmmaker Simien, this 1989-set thriller stars breakout Elle Lorraine as the survivor of a scalp burn from a perm gone wrong. To impress her dreadlocked boss at a music-video TV show, she’s asked to get a weave — but the weave comes with a mind of its own. The movie also stars Vanessa Williams, Lena Waithe, Laverne Cox, Jay Pharoah, Kelly Rowland, Blair Underwood, James Van Der Beek, and Usher Raymond.
“I follow my obsessions down the rabbit hole,...
- 8/13/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Seven years after bursting into the film scene with “Dear White People,” Justin Simien is mixing his satirical style with horror in “Bad Hair,” his latest film coming to Hulu on October 23.
The film, which got a new trailer on Thursday, stars Elle Lorraine as Anna, a TV station assistant in 1989 who is ordered by her pushy new boss (Vanessa Williams) to ditch her natural hair and get a weave. Anna complies, and when she does, the weave soon forms a life of its own, going on a murderous rampage from atop the woman’s scalp.
Also Read: Justin Simien on the Korean and Japanese Influence of 'Bad Hair' (Video)
Premiering at this year’s Sundance in the Midnight section, “Bad Hair” is Simien’s attempt to blend campy horror with a serious look at how American culture values the aesthetics of Black womanhood while neglecting Black women themselves. In an interview with RogerEbert.
The film, which got a new trailer on Thursday, stars Elle Lorraine as Anna, a TV station assistant in 1989 who is ordered by her pushy new boss (Vanessa Williams) to ditch her natural hair and get a weave. Anna complies, and when she does, the weave soon forms a life of its own, going on a murderous rampage from atop the woman’s scalp.
Also Read: Justin Simien on the Korean and Japanese Influence of 'Bad Hair' (Video)
Premiering at this year’s Sundance in the Midnight section, “Bad Hair” is Simien’s attempt to blend campy horror with a serious look at how American culture values the aesthetics of Black womanhood while neglecting Black women themselves. In an interview with RogerEbert.
- 8/13/2020
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Justin Simien’s Sundance Midnight section opener “Bad Hair” released its first trailer on Thursday, with Hulu also announcing that it will debut on the streaming platform on Oct. 23.
The one-minute teaser introduces an L.A.-based executive assistant, Anna, who gets an intense weave sewn in. She passes out in front of the hairstylist, while the ominous music and dark cinematography hint at the growing suspense.
“Clients wear this stuff as magic,” whispers the hairstylist, Virgie (Laverne Cox), in the trailer. “You know, in some parts in India, women’s hairs are the most prized possession.”
From the “Dear White People” director, the horror satire set in 1989 follows Anna, who fears the worst when her dreadlocked boss is replaced by Zora, a retired supermodel who pressures her to get a weave. Her new hair has a mind of its own and bites back.
Simien intended for his work to...
The one-minute teaser introduces an L.A.-based executive assistant, Anna, who gets an intense weave sewn in. She passes out in front of the hairstylist, while the ominous music and dark cinematography hint at the growing suspense.
“Clients wear this stuff as magic,” whispers the hairstylist, Virgie (Laverne Cox), in the trailer. “You know, in some parts in India, women’s hairs are the most prized possession.”
From the “Dear White People” director, the horror satire set in 1989 follows Anna, who fears the worst when her dreadlocked boss is replaced by Zora, a retired supermodel who pressures her to get a weave. Her new hair has a mind of its own and bites back.
Simien intended for his work to...
- 8/13/2020
- by Janet W. Lee
- Variety Film + TV
If you're looking for more hair-centric horror after reading the latest installment of Let's Scare Bryan to Death (featuring an insightful look into Exte), then you'll want to mark October 23rd on your calendars, because that's when Justin Simien’s new movie Bad Hair will be released on Hulu, as promised in a tense new teaser trailer.
Press Release: Hulu dropped the teaser today for Justin Simien’s second feature film Bad Hair which they will be releasing this October 23rd. In this horror satire set in 1989, Bad Hair follows an ambitious young woman (Elle Lorraine) who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career comes at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.
The film stars Elle Lorraine, Vanessa Williams, Lena Waithe, Laverne Cox, Jay Pharoah, Kelly Rowland, Blair Underwood,...
Press Release: Hulu dropped the teaser today for Justin Simien’s second feature film Bad Hair which they will be releasing this October 23rd. In this horror satire set in 1989, Bad Hair follows an ambitious young woman (Elle Lorraine) who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career comes at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.
The film stars Elle Lorraine, Vanessa Williams, Lena Waithe, Laverne Cox, Jay Pharoah, Kelly Rowland, Blair Underwood,...
- 8/13/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Priya Satiani has become a manager at Management 360, moving from Grandview. She will be bringing all her clients with her. Satiani’s list includes Jonathan Majors, (The Last Black Man In San Francisco), Zazie Beetz (Atlanta), Jesse Williams (The Cabin In The Woods), Taylour Paige (Zola), Chinonye Chukwu (wrote/directed Clemency and Americanah), Ser’Darius Blain, Seychelle Gabriel (The Last Airbender), David Rysdahl (Nine Days), Dina Shihabi (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan), Lamorne Morris (Game Night), Storm Reid (A Wrinkle In Time), Cleopatra Coleman (Now Apocalypse), Eddie Huang (Fresh Off The Boat), Madeleine Madden (Wheel Of Time), Ravi Patel (Pursuit of Happyness), Fernanda Andrade (NeXt), Cornelius Smith Jr (Scandal), Sarah Yarkin, Devere Rogers, Elle Lorraine (Bad Hair), Parveen Kaur (Manifest), Wade Allain Marcus (Insecure), Priyanka Bose (Wheel Of Time) and more.
Said the Management 360 partners: “We at 360 have long admired Priya’s taste, integrity & excellence. We...
Said the Management 360 partners: “We at 360 have long admired Priya’s taste, integrity & excellence. We...
- 6/29/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Hulu unveiled a number of advertising plans at its annual NewFronts presentations and slipped in a few details about forthcoming originals.
The Disney-backed digital platform unveiled more details about its upcoming Steve Martin and Martin Short comedy as well as its next Huluween projects and two new FX on Hulu titles.
In January, Hulu handed the Martin and Short half-hour project, which comes from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman and 20th Century Fox TV, a straight-to-series order. It’s now confirmed that the show is titled Only Murders In The Building.
The series follows three New Yorkers who find they have a mutual interest in solving true crime – but limit their amateur sleuthing to only murders in their building. “I’m so proud to say that this show is already one of the highlights of my career,” said Short. Martin joked, “I’m proud to say it’s a...
The Disney-backed digital platform unveiled more details about its upcoming Steve Martin and Martin Short comedy as well as its next Huluween projects and two new FX on Hulu titles.
In January, Hulu handed the Martin and Short half-hour project, which comes from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman and 20th Century Fox TV, a straight-to-series order. It’s now confirmed that the show is titled Only Murders In The Building.
The series follows three New Yorkers who find they have a mutual interest in solving true crime – but limit their amateur sleuthing to only murders in their building. “I’m so proud to say that this show is already one of the highlights of my career,” said Short. Martin joked, “I’m proud to say it’s a...
- 6/22/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Justin Simien, the filmmaker behind “Bad Hair” and “Dear White People,” has signed with CAA.
“Dear White People,” starring Logan Browning and Brandon Bell, is set at a predominantly white Ivy League college and follows a group of black students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.” The film was a big winner at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, nabbing the U.S. dramatic special jury award for breakthrough talent.
In 2017, it was adapted as a Netflix series. The fourth season of the well-reviewed satire is expected to debut on the streaming service in 2020.
Simien’s most recent directorial effort “Bad Hair,” a satirical psychological thriller, premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was nabbed by Hulu. Starring Elle Lorraine, Lena Waithe, Blair Underwood, and Vanessa Williams, “Bad Hair” follows an ambitious young woman in 1989 who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television.
“Dear White People,” starring Logan Browning and Brandon Bell, is set at a predominantly white Ivy League college and follows a group of black students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.” The film was a big winner at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, nabbing the U.S. dramatic special jury award for breakthrough talent.
In 2017, it was adapted as a Netflix series. The fourth season of the well-reviewed satire is expected to debut on the streaming service in 2020.
Simien’s most recent directorial effort “Bad Hair,” a satirical psychological thriller, premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was nabbed by Hulu. Starring Elle Lorraine, Lena Waithe, Blair Underwood, and Vanessa Williams, “Bad Hair” follows an ambitious young woman in 1989 who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television.
- 4/10/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Director Justin Simien, who first broke out at Sundance with 2014’s “Dear White People,” dropped by TheWrap studio at Sundance to discuss his campy horror film “Bad Hair.”
“So ‘Bad Hair’ is a horror satire camp mashup situation about a killer weave and a girl who gets one in 1989 and the costs and the benefits that happen when such a thing transpires,” said Simien. “The idea really came from a conversation about a sub-genre of horror in Korean and Japanese horror films about hair specifically and I felt like there was an American story there to be told that hadn’t been told and specifically one that kind of interrogates the system that kind of forces black women in particular, but all of black culture, to sort of produce value that they themselves can actually capitalize on.”
“I wanted to do this genre because it just it’s a lot of fun.
“So ‘Bad Hair’ is a horror satire camp mashup situation about a killer weave and a girl who gets one in 1989 and the costs and the benefits that happen when such a thing transpires,” said Simien. “The idea really came from a conversation about a sub-genre of horror in Korean and Japanese horror films about hair specifically and I felt like there was an American story there to be told that hadn’t been told and specifically one that kind of interrogates the system that kind of forces black women in particular, but all of black culture, to sort of produce value that they themselves can actually capitalize on.”
“I wanted to do this genre because it just it’s a lot of fun.
- 2/1/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Hulu is set to acquire Justin Simien’s campy horror film “Bad Hair” out of the Sundance Film Festival, insiders told Variety. The global pact is for $8 million.
The Disney-owned streamer has emerged ahead of numerous bidders, sources said, and has overcome Simien and the filmmaking team’s concerns about debuting with a streamer. There will be some form of theatrical release before the movie heads to the digital platform. Hulu has success with television shows such as “The Handmaid’s Tale,” but it is not well known for backing original features.
It’s the second major deal for Hulu, which blew bidders out of the water with its $17.5 million purchase of “Palm Springs,” a comedy with Andy Samberg that it will release with Neon.
A deal has been rumored for days, but Hulu has repeatedly denied that it was the frontrunner for the film. The pact is closing as Sundance...
The Disney-owned streamer has emerged ahead of numerous bidders, sources said, and has overcome Simien and the filmmaking team’s concerns about debuting with a streamer. There will be some form of theatrical release before the movie heads to the digital platform. Hulu has success with television shows such as “The Handmaid’s Tale,” but it is not well known for backing original features.
It’s the second major deal for Hulu, which blew bidders out of the water with its $17.5 million purchase of “Palm Springs,” a comedy with Andy Samberg that it will release with Neon.
A deal has been rumored for days, but Hulu has repeatedly denied that it was the frontrunner for the film. The pact is closing as Sundance...
- 1/31/2020
- by Matt Donnelly and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Hulu is nearing a deal for worldwide distribution rights for Justin Simien’s “Bad Hair,” an individual with knowledge told TheWrap. No deal has been closed.
The film, written and directed by Simien, premiered in the Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival last Thursday. The cast includes Elle Lorraine, Vanessa Williams, Jay Pharaoh, Lena Waithe, Blair Underwood and Laverne Cox.
“Bad Hair,” set in 1989, follows a young woman who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, the weave starts to take on a mind of its own.
Also Read: 'Bad Hair' Film Review: Justin Simien Puts Thoughtful Twists in a Creepy Horror Movie
Producers are Julia Lebedev, Angel Lopez and Eddie Vaisman. Oren Moverman and Alex G. Scott executive produced.
Hulu has been quite active at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Teaming up with Neon, the distributor picked...
The film, written and directed by Simien, premiered in the Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival last Thursday. The cast includes Elle Lorraine, Vanessa Williams, Jay Pharaoh, Lena Waithe, Blair Underwood and Laverne Cox.
“Bad Hair,” set in 1989, follows a young woman who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, the weave starts to take on a mind of its own.
Also Read: 'Bad Hair' Film Review: Justin Simien Puts Thoughtful Twists in a Creepy Horror Movie
Producers are Julia Lebedev, Angel Lopez and Eddie Vaisman. Oren Moverman and Alex G. Scott executive produced.
Hulu has been quite active at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Teaming up with Neon, the distributor picked...
- 1/31/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Bad Hair, one of the buzz titles at Sundance since it premiered last Thursday at The Ray, is nearing a worldwide rights deal north of $8 million with Hulu, sources said. Pic is a horror satire directed by Dear White People creator Justin Simien, and it has been chased hard by suitors I’ve heard included Lionsgate and Netflix.
It looks like Hulu will make this its second major deal of Sundance, this after the $17.5 (plus 69 cents) for Palm Springs. Hulu made that deal with Neon, and it will have to add a theatrical distributor for Bad Hair because the deal calls for a global theatrical release with a P&a spend.
Simien’s Dear White People has turned into a TV series, and he is shaping up to be a strong multicultural world creator. As for the film’s financier, Sight Unseen, this is the second big deal of the last two festivals,...
It looks like Hulu will make this its second major deal of Sundance, this after the $17.5 (plus 69 cents) for Palm Springs. Hulu made that deal with Neon, and it will have to add a theatrical distributor for Bad Hair because the deal calls for a global theatrical release with a P&a spend.
Simien’s Dear White People has turned into a TV series, and he is shaping up to be a strong multicultural world creator. As for the film’s financier, Sight Unseen, this is the second big deal of the last two festivals,...
- 1/31/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Hulu has acquired worldwide rights to the Justin Simien-directed horror film Bad Hair. A source pegged the deal at $8 million.
The Midnight section title is the follow-up to Simien's feature directorial debut Dear White People, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The movie stars Elle Lorraine (Insecure) as a video jockey in 1989 Los Angeles who is coerced into getting a weave by her new glamorous boss. But the hair turns out to have a mind of its own.
There is no theatrical distributor involved in the deal, so it is unclear if the film will play in theaters or ...
The Midnight section title is the follow-up to Simien's feature directorial debut Dear White People, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The movie stars Elle Lorraine (Insecure) as a video jockey in 1989 Los Angeles who is coerced into getting a weave by her new glamorous boss. But the hair turns out to have a mind of its own.
There is no theatrical distributor involved in the deal, so it is unclear if the film will play in theaters or ...
- 1/31/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Hulu has acquired worldwide rights to the Justin Simien-directed horror film Bad Hair. A source pegged the deal at $8 million.
The Midnight section title is the follow-up to Simien's feature directorial debut Dear White People, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The movie stars Elle Lorraine (Insecure) as a video jockey in 1989 Los Angeles who is coerced into getting a weave by her new glamorous boss. But the hair turns out to have a mind of its own.
There is no theatrical distributor involved in the deal, so it is unclear if the film will play in theaters or ...
The Midnight section title is the follow-up to Simien's feature directorial debut Dear White People, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The movie stars Elle Lorraine (Insecure) as a video jockey in 1989 Los Angeles who is coerced into getting a weave by her new glamorous boss. But the hair turns out to have a mind of its own.
There is no theatrical distributor involved in the deal, so it is unclear if the film will play in theaters or ...
- 1/31/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the six years since first hitting Park City, Justin Simien has had a modest, successful career. His debut feature, Dear White People, swiftly got picked up and hit American theaters in the fall of 2014 to more than quintuple its budget. It was messy, sure, but it had a lot of its mind and energy to spare. In fact, it had so much that it was able to spawn an adaptation in the form of a Netflix series, and as that heads into its fourth and final season, it would appear that Simien is looking ahead while also dipping into the past.
Such brings us to Bad Hair, a horror-comedy that aims to continue his quick dialogue and world-building that blurs the line between the fictional and the all-too-real. Meet Anna (newcomer Elle Lorraine), a young woman making her way in the TV industry. The production design from Scott Kuzio...
Such brings us to Bad Hair, a horror-comedy that aims to continue his quick dialogue and world-building that blurs the line between the fictional and the all-too-real. Meet Anna (newcomer Elle Lorraine), a young woman making her way in the TV industry. The production design from Scott Kuzio...
- 1/26/2020
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
The first major film festival of the year, the Sundance Film Festival is the perfect hub to discover new talents, titles and trends for the next wave of film.
This year is no different. With the upcoming presidential election, several of the major films being showcased at Sundance mix politics with art. There is “Hillary,” the four-hour Hulu documentary following Hillary Clinton’s run to become the first woman to capture a political party’s nomination for president in the last election. Out of the festival’s more than 100 films is also a Gloria Steinem biopic starring Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander, who play Steinem at different ages.
Justin Simien, the creator of “Dear White People,” is also debuting “Bad Hair,” a horror satire about a killer black weave that doubles as an allegory for racial inequality. The film stars Elle Lorraine, Vanessa Williams, Jay Pharoah, Lena Waithe, Blair Underwood and Laverne Cox.
This year is no different. With the upcoming presidential election, several of the major films being showcased at Sundance mix politics with art. There is “Hillary,” the four-hour Hulu documentary following Hillary Clinton’s run to become the first woman to capture a political party’s nomination for president in the last election. Out of the festival’s more than 100 films is also a Gloria Steinem biopic starring Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander, who play Steinem at different ages.
Justin Simien, the creator of “Dear White People,” is also debuting “Bad Hair,” a horror satire about a killer black weave that doubles as an allegory for racial inequality. The film stars Elle Lorraine, Vanessa Williams, Jay Pharoah, Lena Waithe, Blair Underwood and Laverne Cox.
- 1/25/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Step aside zombies and ghosts, haunted hair is going to be all the rage in 2020. And I'm not talking about The Ring. The immensely talented writer / director Justin Simien is back at the Sundance Film Festival with his second feature film (following his directorial debut Dear White People premiering at the festival in 2014). His new film is called Bad Hair, a major horror moment introducing us to a new horror concept - haunted hair weaves. The film goes all out with that haunted hair concept, perhaps indulging a bit too much, but nonetheless this still feels like a landmark film in the horror genre. It definitely will not be for everyone, because not all of us have had to deal with nappy hair, but that's also exactly why this film rules. It's original and creative and clever and specific, and introduces us to Elle Lorraine as Anna and her haunted weaves.
- 1/25/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Writer/director Justin Simien premiered his feature film debut Dear White People at Sundance in 2014, and later went on to adapt that movie into a Netflix streaming series. Now he’s back at the festival with something completely new: an ‘80s-set horror thriller about a killer weave. It’s 1989, and Anna (Elle Lorraine) is a down-on-her-luck […]
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- 1/25/2020
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
“Bad Hair” writer and director Justin Simien always intended for his horror-satire film to spark a conversation about the way society relates to appearance (especially around and among black women), but filming the project has equally affected his cast, who shared their own struggles to gain acceptance professionally and learn how to accept themselves personally.
“Just last week, last Sunday — I’m not even joking… It was the first time I wore my natural hair out. I actually, like, enjoyed my ringlets,” Kelly Rowland revealed during a conversation about the film at Variety’s Sundance studio.
Giving some added props to another star who inspired the move, Rowland explained, “[It was] thanks to, actually, Tracee Ellis Ross. She had this really great product [Ross’ natural hair care line, Pattern] and I tried it and I loved it. And it really set my hair up all pretty. And I was like, ‘I’m going to go outside like this today…...
“Just last week, last Sunday — I’m not even joking… It was the first time I wore my natural hair out. I actually, like, enjoyed my ringlets,” Kelly Rowland revealed during a conversation about the film at Variety’s Sundance studio.
Giving some added props to another star who inspired the move, Rowland explained, “[It was] thanks to, actually, Tracee Ellis Ross. She had this really great product [Ross’ natural hair care line, Pattern] and I tried it and I loved it. And it really set my hair up all pretty. And I was like, ‘I’m going to go outside like this today…...
- 1/25/2020
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
At this year’s Sundance, 118 features will make their debut. Here are five hotly anticipated films that will be in the mix and some of the artisans behind them.
Bad Hair (Midnight)
Costume designer Ceci reconnects with Justin Simien (“Dear White People”) on a satirical horror set in 1989 Los Angeles, where ambitious Anna (Elle Lorraine) hopes to be the next on-air talent for a music video TV show. Her new boss, Zora (Vanessa Williams) wants Anna to change her natural hair, and she acquiesces by getting a weave. One problem: The strands have a mind of their own.
Ceci fully developed the look of each individual role down to the smallest detail. “My intention is that the viewer can readily identify, relate or understand who the characters are and the story being told,” she says. “Before Anna gets her first weave, her wardrobe is reflective of her ethnocentric upbringing coupled with her homespun,...
Bad Hair (Midnight)
Costume designer Ceci reconnects with Justin Simien (“Dear White People”) on a satirical horror set in 1989 Los Angeles, where ambitious Anna (Elle Lorraine) hopes to be the next on-air talent for a music video TV show. Her new boss, Zora (Vanessa Williams) wants Anna to change her natural hair, and she acquiesces by getting a weave. One problem: The strands have a mind of their own.
Ceci fully developed the look of each individual role down to the smallest detail. “My intention is that the viewer can readily identify, relate or understand who the characters are and the story being told,” she says. “Before Anna gets her first weave, her wardrobe is reflective of her ethnocentric upbringing coupled with her homespun,...
- 1/24/2020
- by Daron James
- Variety Film + TV
Plot: A young black woman (Elle Lorraine), trying to make it as a VJ at an urban music video network, caves under pressure and invests in a custom-made weave, only to realize that the hair has a life of its own and demands constant blood sacrifice. Review: Justin Simien broke out at Sundance a few years ago with Dear White People, a solid satire that he not only parlayed into a successful…...
- 1/24/2020
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
The plight of black women and their hair has birthed enough cinematic investigations to yield its own subgenre, from Chris Rock’s astute 2009 documentary “Good Hair” to the 2020 Oscar-nominated animated short “Hair Love.” These endearing cultural explorations are mere preludes to the exuberance of “Bad Hair,” a rambunctious, overindulgent comedy-horror excursion from “Dear White People” director Justin Simien. Equal parts vintage Brian De Palma thriller and race-centric corporate fashion satire in the spirit of “Putney Swope,” .
With 2014’s “Dear White People,” Simien became one of the most exciting writer-director voices in black cinema, merging scathing and satiric observations with genuine insights into contemporary African American frustrations. “Bad Hair” turns the clock back to 1989, elaborating on the thorny issues surrounding black women in popular culture, and may as well be a prequel set in the same snarky universe. However, “Dear White People” managed a tricky balance between snark and genuine social commentary,...
With 2014’s “Dear White People,” Simien became one of the most exciting writer-director voices in black cinema, merging scathing and satiric observations with genuine insights into contemporary African American frustrations. “Bad Hair” turns the clock back to 1989, elaborating on the thorny issues surrounding black women in popular culture, and may as well be a prequel set in the same snarky universe. However, “Dear White People” managed a tricky balance between snark and genuine social commentary,...
- 1/24/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The year is 1989 and New Jack Swing is about to push black culture from the margins to the mainstream. The question for the black employees of Culture, the music TV station at the center of writer-director Justin Simien’s delightfully macabre horror-dramedy “Bad Hair,” is what image do they — and their white executive Grant (James Van Der Beek) — want to promote? Accuses one host, “You want us to appeal to a whiter — er, wider — audience.”
Before you can say Bel Biv Devoe, our heroine Anna (newcomer Elle Lorraine), an assistant who aspires to star in her own show, finds her braided boss pushed out and replaced by sleek ex-supermodel Zora (Vanessa Williams), who scowls at Anna’s short, natural curls and orders her to get a weave. And so ambitious Anna stitches her scalp with a stranger’s long, straight hair which, to her despair, literally slays.
In “Bad Hair,...
Before you can say Bel Biv Devoe, our heroine Anna (newcomer Elle Lorraine), an assistant who aspires to star in her own show, finds her braided boss pushed out and replaced by sleek ex-supermodel Zora (Vanessa Williams), who scowls at Anna’s short, natural curls and orders her to get a weave. And so ambitious Anna stitches her scalp with a stranger’s long, straight hair which, to her despair, literally slays.
In “Bad Hair,...
- 1/24/2020
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
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