By Daniel Rutledge
Greg Araki’s latest film is a sexed up doomsday affair absolutely drenched in bold, bright and beautiful colours.
On a visual level, every scene is amazing, with exceptional work done in the wardrobe department, set design and what looks like contrast raising digital alteration.
Kaboom is a frequently very funny tale of how a gay university student who has lots of sex (usually with women) has his life turned upside down by an animal mask wearing cult.
I liked how it starts out all dreamy and psychedelic and remains so for most of it’s running time with little horror moments. The intensity builds very slowly but then skyrockets toward the end before the hilariously craptastic finale.
It’s only then that I realised just how silly and pointless most of what I’d seen leading up to it was.
Also, I have to say that the digibeta projection really hurt this screening too. For such a visual film so bursting with colours in almost every frame, it was unfortunate to see it in this degraded form and not a glorious big print.
Two and a half stars.
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Note: This film is playing as part of the World Cinema
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