Kaboom

CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010 / WINNER QUEER PALM AWARD
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2011

KABOOM is a thriller/comedy telling the story of Smith, an ambi-sexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic seaside Southern California town.

Smith’s everyday life in the dorms - 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.

Tripping on some hallucinogenic cookies he ate at a party, Smith is convinced he’s witnessed the gruesome murder of an enigmatic Red-Haired Girl who has been haunting his dreams. What he discovers as he tries to find out the truth leads him deeper and deeper into a mystery that will forever change not only the course of his young life but the destiny of the entire world.

“Kaboom is both crazily disjunctive and smooth, jumping from polymorphous sex comedy to murder mystery to paranoid apocalyptic science-fiction freakout." (A. O. Scott, New York Times)