Nothing natural about this Black hair riff on J-horror classic Hair Extensions

Dani and Shelli got together to chat about Justin Simien's new satirical horror movie, their own relationships with their hair over the years, and being over...

Yaani King Mondschein, Elle Lorraine, and Lena Waithe in Bad Hair by Justin Simien (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) At nine years old my hair was course, and...

Justin Simien's movie “Bad Hair” is a horror-satire about a killer weave on Hulu with Elle Lorraine, Kelly Rowland and Laverne Cox.

Justin Simien’s Bad Hair begins with a trauma that many Black women can relate to across the globe–their first perm. Eager to look like her dazzling olde...

Especially for women, hair has always been a status symbol. Writer/Director Justin Simien’s follow up feature to Dear White People plays up this notion i...

Young woman wears a deadly ’do in satirical horror film with big laughs and some genuine scares

Whip-smart cultural criticism delivered in an appealing package is what writer-director Justin Simien does best, as he demonstrated in his first feature film...

Having thoroughly skewered contemporary life in his 'Dear White People' franchise, Justin Simien is ready to go back in time.

Justin Simien follows 'Dear White People' with 'Bad Hair,' a satirical thriller about an ambitious late-'80s music TV staffer whose fabulous weave turns nasty.

The "Dear White People" director's ludicrous late-’80s B-movie weaves from camp to oppression, with mixed results.

Bad Hair really needs a loud, live audience, preferably around midnight, to reach its full potential.

Remakes of classic films “Rebecca” and “The Witches” come out this week — how do they compare to the originals? We have some thoughts.

Justin Simien's horror-comedy gets tangled in its own mythmaking, but as an '80s workplace comedy period piece, it's spot-on.

Writer-director Justin Simien’s demented, campy horror film “Bad Hair” is about, of all things, a killer weave.

By playing coy with what the notion of good and bad hair means to its owners, Bad Hair fails at the kind of Black experience-related relevance Jordan Peele w...

A review of two of the first films of Sundance 2020, Bad Hair and Miss Juneteenth.

Writer-director Justin Simien has more experience in satire (“Dear White People”) than horror, and a better handle on lighthearted lectures than laughs. ...

Justin Simien follows up Dear White People with this satirical thriller about bloodthirsty hair

Writer/director Justin Simien returns to Sundane with a new horror comedy that wears its cinematic influences on its sleeve. Read our Bad Hair review.

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 u...

Justin Simien's Bad Hair is full of great ideas and memorable supporting performances, but the end product doesn't really gel together.

Sundance 2020: Elle Lorraine is riveting to watch as she plays an ambitious producer forced to solve the unexplained mysteries of her sentient hair weave

Justin Simien's pointed, fiendishly fun horror flick cackles at the gore when ambitious music host gets a wig that literally slays.

If this movie is the love letter to Black women that its director promises, it’s written with a poison pen.