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Kaboom

Release Date 10 Jun 2011 TBA

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Certificate: 15A

Genre: Comedy | Scifi | Fantasy

"Kaboom" is a hyper-stylized "Twin Peaks" for the Coachella Generation, featuring a gorgeous young cast. A wild, witty and sex-drenched horror-comedy thriller, it is the story of Smith, an ambisexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern California seaside town.

Cast:
Juno Temple | Kelly Lynch | Haley Bennett | James Duval | Chris Zylka | Thomas Dekker | Roxane Mesquida | Andy Fischer-Price | Jason Olive | Nicole Laliberte

Writers:
Gregg Araki

Producers:

Directors:
Gregg Araki

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It’s the end of the world as we know it – only 18-year old California stoner dude Smith (Dekker) hasn’t got a clue. But he gets one when, high, he bumps into a woman being stabbed by three guys in animal masks. Naturally, Smith puts it down to an hallucination. But then the men in the animal masks reappear. And Smith stumbles upon the New World Order cult on the net – and spots his dead father as their leader…

THE VERDICT: Having previously given us The Doom Generation (1995), This Is How The World Ends (2000 TV movie) and Mysterious Skin (2004), Gregg Araki has proven himself the bastard son of Michael Bay and Larry Clark. And here, his tastes for teens caught up in a sun-drenched future shock hellhole continues, but the novelty is wearing a little thin. Still, Juno Temple (Atonement, Greenberg) is a revelation, getting all the best lines.

Review by Paul Byrne 

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    mart

    A delirious, demented cross between Donnie Darko and Twin Peaks with an undeniably handsome cast and a good deal of film-making skill. Don't expect it to make a lot of sense but just enjoy the wild trip

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    vu1999uk

    This is a strange film, as I really want to like it but too much of it does not work. There are some great tense scenes, all the actors are good, in particular Haley Bennet who is excellent. But it takes too long to get going, with the main plot only a background to sex scenes for the first hour. It does then get going with some pretty mad stuff at that point, but it is a bit too late. Still some good ideas and crazy stuff is in there. And the ending is certainly memorable.

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