Hair High (2004)

Hair High: Directed by Bill Plympton. With Eric Gilliland, Sarah Silverman, Dermot Mulroney, Beverly D’Angelo. A gothic ’50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly bad, as two young, murdered teens return to their prom to get revenge.

“I viewed HIGH HAIR today in Los Angeles — perhaps three years after it was originally screened. Comments on IMDb said it was a retro 50u0026#39;s style high school story line which drew my attention.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI am a child of such an era having graduated in 1959 (at the cusp of the next decade of the 50u0026#39;s) from high school.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI entered the theater with an invited friend. I was a bit anxious whether my experience would be the same as another personu0026#39;s opinion as we left the screening and talked. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWe both had the same movie experience: It took about 20 minutes to get into it and at one moment in time, there was a hook that carried the film into its conclusion and enjoyment. I suppose this is a cult film, but it works well with those who were in high school in the era of the film despite the fact that this was not my own experience.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMy enjoyment was the fusion of Japanese anime into contemporary American animation as a borrowed skill with a true technique honed by Bill Plimpton.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHe pulled it off without a finger print of evidence that would tie him to such a cinematic crime of imitating Japanese Anime and not his own invention.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt worked. Just fine. Pure fusion.”