Kaboom

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Myself

This plays out like a slightly more intentionally comical episode of Dante's Cove. If you've never heard of that reference, chances are you wouldn't be interested anyway. But it's like someone tried to smooch together a very sexually charged teen coming of age comedy and a lovecraftian end of the world cult mystery and once they figured out how to get them to work together didn't bother to finish either of them.

But it's kinda funny the way it ends. I dunno, I think i'm still trying to process this.

The only Gregg Araki film I've seen before is Mysterious Skin and that is at the complete opposite end of the spectrum from this film. That was a deadly serious character double hander but this movie has more funky transitions than an Amanda Bynes film. It's a much more pop aesthetic and has gloriously bright saturated colours.

The supernatural mystery dream stuff never works as well as the teen character relationship stuff. It's a really odd mix and hard to tell how straight a face they are telling the story with. Judging by the end, they seem in on the joke, I just don't think I found it that funny.