When Justin Simien’s upcoming horror movie Bad Hair premiered at Sundance 2020, the premise ensured it was a hot-ticket screening: the creator and director of Dear White People had made a movie about evil weaves. In the film, set in 1989, TV executive Anna (Elle Lorraine) hopes to make it big as a VJ, but her new boss (Vanessa Williams) dismisses her natural hairstyle as behind-the-times, so Anna suffers through her first weave, at the hands of style maven Virgie (Orange Is the New Black breakout star Laverne Cox). From there, things go very poorly for Anna and her office.