Kaboom

Kaboom (2010) is a surreal comedy-mystery from director Gregg Araki you can watch online on iFILM. A US-French co-production running 86 minutes, it blends genres so freely that calling it any single thing feels wrong — part campus comedy, part paranoid thriller, part science fiction, entirely Araki.

College freshman Smith (Thomas Dekker) spends his days crushing on his brooding surfer roommate Thor, hanging out with wisecracking best friend Stella, and chasing London, a beautiful rebel who keeps showing up in the wrong places. One night, after taking something at a party, he sees a red-haired girl from his dreams get murdered in an alley. Whether it was real, a hallucination, or the opening move in a conspiracy that goes much further than a college campus — that's where the film stops being polite.

Araki built Kaboom as a kind of Gen-Y fever dream: bisexuality treated as fact rather than subplot, a plot that keeps folding in on itself, and a finale that explodes the whole thing. Holly Earl-like lo-fi charm meets genuine strangeness. Watch Kaboom (2010) online on iFILM.