An unhinged ride through the sensual pleasures of movies: naked bodies, booming music, bright colors, crazy twists and zippy action sequences...
— Noel Murray, A.V. Club
Trippy, horny and apocalpytically funny. A gonzo teen fantasy.
— Aaron Hillis, The Village Voice
AN EROTIC BLAST OF SINFUL FLESH, FUN AND FANTASY THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO STOP.
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Presented by IFC Films | United States | Jan 28th, 2011 | 86 MINS | UR
The latest film from iconoclastic independent filmmaker Gregg Araki, 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, KABOOM tells the story of Smith (Thomas Dekker), an ambisexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern California seaside town. KABOOM shares key touchstones of Araki’s early films, including scatological and absurd Valley-inflected dialogue, elements of campy gore and Araki’s troupe of arrestingly sexy guys and girls. With his sophisticated synthesis of various experiments in tone and cinematography, Araki has reached a new level of artistic maturity.
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Awards
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Official Selection
Sundance Film Festival 2011
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Official Selection - Out of Competition
Cannes Film Festival
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