EXTE - HAIR EXTENSIONS

EXTE - HAIR EXTENSIONS
(Ekusute)

Japan/2007

Genre: Horror/ Comedy/ Drama


Synopsis:
Customs agents discover a huge amount of human hair along with the bald corpse of a young girl. This arouses the curiosity of Yamazaki, a mortuary employee with a hair fetish, particularly since the girl's hair continues to grow. Now a mad hair-peddler with an endless stock of locks, Yamazaki sells her ever-growing hair to salons to be used for extensions. Meanwhile, Yuko, an up-and-coming hair stylist, is entrusted with the care of her timid and frightened niece, Mami, whose body bares the signs of abuse. It's not long before death surrounds them and their extension-wearing clientele. The hair, it seems, has a life of its own, with lethal, vengeful intentions. And Yuko and Mami must untangle the mystery before more deaths occur.


OH NOES! It's the hair again!
Okay, as we all know, the Asian people seem to have a great fascination when it comes to hair. Hair is something that belongs to Asian Horror movies like ...mustard belongs to liverwurst.
AND: I can't stand any more hair movies.

That was my point of view when I started watching EXTE.
But after a few minutes I was like: Hey...me likes!


The movie was pretty good, a nice combo between Horror, Comedy and Drama. Well, it actually IS one of those "innocent girl...blabla...killed...blah blah...revenge" movies, but you'll forget about the fact that you can't see those movies anymore because EXTE is...different. Different in a pretty good way.
Some scenes are hilarious, and the end scene is worth suffering through the crappy parts!

So next time you wonde rif you should watch the crappy remake of Ju-On (OKAY, it wasn't THAT crappy AND it had Ted Raimi) or maybe a Japanese original - Watch EXTE.



OMG!! IT'S GO GO YUBARI FROM KILL BILL!!! XD

THE WIG

THE WIG
(Gabal)

Korea/2005

Genre: Horror

Synopsis:
A young woman is discharged from hospital after being treated for a cancer is seems unlikely she will survive. Having endured the devastating effects of her treatment, the woman is left without hair and her sister buyers her a wig, as way of clinging on to the little dignity she has left. However, it's not long before her sister begins to suspect that the wig has a sinister power that is rapidly taking control of her ailing sibling...

Now this was one hariy movie.
I this case, hairy means: Oh my god was that bad.
The movie started off pretty interesting, but lost substance pretty quickly and ended rather unsurprisingly.
The end was even worth a laugh, even though I'm pretty sure the writer didn't intend to make this funny. Yeah. Should have been scary and dramatic, huh? In addition to that, the ending was WAY too long and didn't make as much sense as it should have made. Not even the good acting was able to make up for this...
The beginning - okay, the first 10 minutes- WERE interesting, but then Mr.Hyun-jung Do decited to stop thinking and just get out every cliche of a horror movie he could come up with. It
even has a "cat-jumps-out-of-closet" scene! SCARY!!!
I mean - have you seen the SIMPSONS Treehouse of Horror Episode where Homer is posessed by his toupee? Same story. Only better. Ha.

But I know:
Some call it plagiarism, others call it research....
I call it boring.
End of review.