Exte (2007)

Original title

エクステ

Directed by

Sion Sono

Genre

horror film, comedy horror

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

R

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 123 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A trichophile man steals the corpse of a girl whose hair keeps growing. He sells the hair as extensions to salons, and the hair drives users insane or kills them. An aspiring hairdresser becomes his target.

grotesqueabsurdistsillydarkly comicfast-pacedover-the-topcampyunsettling

What happens

Exte (エクステ, Ekusute) is a 2007 Japanese supernatural horror film written and directed by Sion Sono, and stars Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, and Megumi Satō. The title is a Japanese slang shortening Romanization of the English term "extension" from "hair extension". The plot involves an aspiring hairdresser (Kuriyama) who becomes the infatuation of a trichophile man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the stolen corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow beautiful and voluminous black hair that comes alive, driving those who use the extensions insane or killing them. The movie was released in the U.S. as Exte: Hair Extensions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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