Filmmaker Greg Araki has gotten over this youthful angst and now knows how to have a rockin' good time, even a Bacchanalian fest. His film technique has matured as well. His cardboard sets and colored lights seem more playful and intentional than reflecting an inability to disguise a low budget. Kaboom follows Smith (Thomas Dekkler) , a college freshman who is not metrosexual, ambisexual or confused. He lusts after men, but has lots of satisfying, if not equally, sex with women. Let's just call him BI, and sexually untroubled. There are lots of nubile nudes, both girls and boys, rolling around together, and for many viewers, that would be enough. But strange things start happening on this academically undemanding campus, including encounters with witchcraft, prescient dreams, murder, cults, psychedelic fugues, paranoia and possibly a threat to life on earth -- all in good fun.
Kaboom
Director/Writer: Greg Araki
Cast: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Juno Temple, Chris Zylka, James Duval, Andy Fischer-Price, Nicole LaLiberte
Time: 86 min.
Rated:
Opening on February 19 at a the Bridge Theatre in San Francisco
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