2010 · comedy · sci-fi · romance
Kaboom
Directed by Gregg Araki1h 26m2010
Smith, a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women -- and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. Lorelei looks just like his fantasy brunette, while a mysterious red-haired girl being chased by assassins draws him into an international conspiracy. Or is it all just a drug-induced hallucination?
Our read: Kaboom (2010) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal comedy · sci-fi · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- surreal
- intimate
Watching Kaboom tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Kaboom feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want horny queer college chaos colliding with a lurid apocalypse cult.”
Skip it tonight — Graphic sex, nudity, and Araki weirdness will overwhelm not entertain you.
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