
Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.... (Full plot summary below)
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Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.
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| New YorkerBruce DionesThe film is so disjointed and chaotic that the usual pleasures of Araki's films-which arise from the freedom that his lost boys enjoy-never take hold. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura Clifford...like Araki's own "Rocky Horror Picture Show" with its fetishized aliens, hetero, homo and three-way sexual couplings and its hero's obsession with an iconically named blond surfer dude. |
| NYC Film CriticEthan AlterA film that speeds through a dizzying array of silly plotlines in its 86 rambunctious minutes. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisKaboom lets Araki play with carnality as opposed to cautioning against it. |
| Slant MagazineFernando F. CroceFinds Gregg Araki seeking a balance between the gleefully anarchic impulses of his early New Queer Cinema efforts and the newfound technical control of Mysterious Skin. |
| Ultra CultureCharlie LyneUnfortunately, as is so often the case, it all went downhill in the last half hour. |
| Film ExperienceNathaniel RogersAraki movies used to feel dangerous. This one feels like underfunded kitsch. |
| Brand XAndy Klein...zips along entertainingly, even when the ending runs off the rails. |
| Time OutBen WaltersIf there's an undercurrent of impending cataclysm in today's culture, 'Kaboom' senses that feeling, seizes it in a surreal clinch and hurtles with it off a cliff. |
| Total FilmNeil SmithIt's good to see the respectability Araki won from 2004's Mysterious Skin hasn't sapped his subversive streak. |