Badass Hair

There are some scary truths about weaves and hair extensions, but nothing is scarier than being demonically possessed by them. That’s the major anchor in director Justin Simien’s latest horror comedy, Bad Hair, now streaming on Hulu. The film, set in 1989 is a long-overdue project that is an allegory about how false beauty standards placed on Black women can have a lasting effect.

The campiness of is as delicious as its log line sounds. The film follows an ambitious young Black woman named Anna Bludso (played by Elle Lorraine), who, after