Hair Wolf

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Hair Wolf

2018

Directed by Mariama Diallo

A beautiful new film for a beautiful people

The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.

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Paul Thomas
Review by Paul Thomas ★★★½

A horror movie about cultural appropriation, but not without a sense of fun and light heartedness behind it that only sharpens its edges. White women who constantly want to touch black women's hair protrayed as zombies.


This movie asks do you know what's scarier than zombies? People who say "All Lives Matter"

Jordan Brooks
Review by Jordan Brooks Liked 1

Dear Mariana Diallo,

Please please please make more films. 

Love,

A huge fan


Dear People with Money,

Please finance Mariana Diallo’s films. Give her whatever she wants, because she is talented and has what you need. Originality. 

Best,

A good customer

Sally Jane Black
Review by Sally Jane Black

Well that was 12 dense minutes of pointed barbs against appropriation of Black culture/image and a lot of really good horror movie jokes.

Jay D 's Watching
Review by Jay D 's Watching ★★★½ Liked

"De Niro loves us down."

"He...he really does, though."

Funny, incisive, occasionally painful, and definitely au courant.

Denis_Fahey
Review by Denis_Fahey ★★★★ Liked

Wanna know what's scarier than demons? Cultural appropriation.

bou
Review by bou ★

No. no. no.

As soon as I saw the Obama $20 bill I knew this film's politics weren't gonna be good.

Hair wolf is a symptom of this covert and largely unaware return to essentialist black nationalist rhetoric that groups all black identities together without considering other intersections of oppression. This simple minded ideology, which ironically marginalizes several black "others" (queer and non-hetero, poor, houseless, immigrant, non-citizen, non-American, internationalist, non-Christian/Islamic, etc), is regressive and needs to end. obama, beyonce, whoever have completely different material interests than you. This childish idealization of black celebrity culture that projects ourselves onto the images of ruling, black elites needs to stop. The number of black billionaires and entrants into the "black excellence" class, whoever…

Angelica Jade Bastién🪼🌷
Review by Angelica Jade Bastién🪼🌷

Very very very blunt in its messaging. Some striking lighting and costume + hair design. Doesn’t wholly come together even though I appreciate what it’s going for.

r0anea
Review by r0anea ★★★★★ Liked

"All lives matter, Eve"

*tear rolls down cheek*

Bethany
Review by Bethany ★★★★ Liked

LOVE how stylized this is—the hairstyling, makeup, costumes and lighting were all incredible and this really packs a punch for only being 12 minutes long. need more from Mariama Diallo!

Bleeding Skull
Review by Bleeding Skull ★★★★

HAIR WOLF follows Black hair stylists facing the biggest threat Black hair stylists can face: white people. “Your hair is so beautiful . . . can I touch it?” Cue the gasps and the laughter. Writer/director Mariama Diallo mercilessly roasts self-obsessed white women and cultural appropriation. Sure they’re easy targets, but I’m not above it. Nor are you. But the humor goes both ways: when a stylist goes platinum blonde her personality changes to match. Clocking in at a tidy twelve minutes packed with humor, playful tropes, and social commentary, HAIR WOLF is a reminder that there are some horrors in this world that are less gory but more cultural. (Annie Choi)