keithomusic Review of Exte: Hair Extensions

Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)

Creepy, but not scary. (major spoilers)

[7/10 · 31 December 2023]

I think we can all agree that this is a weird movie. It's probably the only movie about haunted hair extensions. It starts a bit slow, then the really creepy guy is introduced to us, and he is really creepy, he works in a morgue and has a hair fetish. Which I never knew is a real thing. He also makes human hair extensions and sells them, even has a couple of awards for best extensions. Things start happening when he gives his hair extensions to a couple of local salons. When someone puts the hair extension on weird things happen, hair start growing in places it shouldn't, like eyeballs or your forearms, then it just takes over and kills whoever. There are a couple of subplots, one about a physically abused child and another about the police investigating the strange deaths involving hair and also a missing corpse, guess who stole that. But there is a happy ending. I'm told this is a comedy, but I saw no humour in it, maybe it is a parody of the Asian ghost trope of the woman dressed in white with the long black hair, I see it as a weird creepy movie. I really enjoyed it.