10 Seriously Weird Horror Movies That Deserve Your Attention

8. Exte: Hair Extensions

Horror can make any everyday object terrifying. Cars, dolls, tyres, and, most recently, a sofa to name just a few. However, perhaps the most bizarre object to get a horror makeover comes in the form of hair extensions in 2007’s Exte: Hair Extensions (aka Ekusute).

Coming from the mind of writer, director, and poet Sion Sono (creator of J-Horror gem Suicide Club), Exte follows apprentice hairdresser Yoko (Chiaki Kuriyama) as she comes into contact with the lethal locks when they’re sold to her by a trichophile – that’s someone with a hankering for hair – who becomes obsessed with her hair. But when the aforementioned accessories are acquired from the stolen corpse of a dead girl, insanity is soon to follow. Oh, and the hair lets the wearer see the moments of its owner’s death.

Complete with bleeding hair, imaginative, hair-raising deaths, eccentric performances, and a pretty compelling mystery to boot, this is one of the weirdest examples of Japanese cinema out there. This one really grows on you.