Bad Hair
Movie • 2020 • Horror
ReportIn 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 mind of its own.
This movie contains 17 potentially triggering events.
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Open to interpretation, but a woman kills her ex during sex while possessed.
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Not exactly, but the opening scene is a child having a painful and bloody experience with her older cousin attempting to chemically straighten her hair (with good intentions) that is hard to watch.
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Addiction
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amwhite91
The protagonist smokes cigarettes throughout the movie.
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Is there addiction?
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Anonymous
she smokes cigarettes throughout the movie and people say they thought she quit so that could be an addiction
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amwhite91
Not on-screen but, spoiler, spoiler, spoiler: we find out at the end that pig's blood is used as an ingredient in a hair product that the protagonist and other characters have been using.
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Are there snakes?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
The hair can be snake-like, but there are no snakes.
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Assault
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Landlord throws her on the bed clearly attempting to rape, no nudity.
The hair attacks him before anything really happens
The hair attacks him before anything really happens
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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amwhite91
This movie features a LOT of trauma around getting one's hair done. In the beginning, a relaxer is left in too long, leaving the protagonist with a scar into adulthood. There is a very intense and painful scene where the protagonist is getting a weave installed. She is crying and whimpering in pain throughout. Hair cutting and attempted hair cutting happens throughout the film.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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amwhite91
A character is strangled
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Does a head get squashed?
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amwhite91
Someone's head is enveloped and squeezed by a weave.
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Is there a hanging?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
She turns out to survive, but it definitely doesn't look like that when it happens.
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Is someone tortured?
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HorrorFilmJunki
Main character is tortured by her own hair in a way
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Someone is throw out of a window after they are dead.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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amwhite91
Not so much mutilation, but we see a character's hair travel through her eyes.
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Does someone cheat?
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the main girl gets cheated on by a dude who works with her and he cheats on her with the new boss for work benefits, she cries about it.
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Are there jump scares?
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amwhite91
There's at least one, when the protagonist is reaching in the dark for a sticky note. You can tell it's coming, and it isn't so bad of a jumpscare
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Is someone possessed?
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she is possessed by the sew in she gets at the salon and so are a lot of the other girls
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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!!SPOILERS!! no but kind of, near the end when the main character hides in the recording room after she shoots the gun the bosses spits hair onto the glass but there is no graphic noises and it’s super quick and it didn’t trigger me it’s like she just coughs once and hair goes onto the glass
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Is there audio gore?
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amwhite91
You can hear the hair slurping up blood.
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
There is a bloody hair weaving scene.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Judgement call. The women are unhappy with their appearance so they get weaves which change their lives.
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no but someone is choked by their hair in a way that could look like being hanged
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Yes. I'm strobe sensitive and did not enjoy that part (which was in the form of flickering florescent lights), but it only lasts about three minutes. It happens when the main character walks through the door labeled "active construction zone".
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Prejudice
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Anonymous
yes but only used by a black person
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Lena Waithe's character dies. While she is never specifically spelled out to be LGBTQ she is famous for it and her character is in keeping with that.
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Does the black guy die first?
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IgnisActivate
A white character is the first death, however the rest of the deaths are all Black characters.
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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amwhite91
There is a sex scene, but it is not very explicit. Most of it happens while the camera is dark.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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The main character escapes the evil; others don't
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Is there blood/gore?
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amwhite91
Throughout
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Is there gun violence?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
FYI, there is a cigarette lighter that looks like a gun.
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