OLDBOY
After twenty years this film remains an astonishing sensory assault
SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE
This isn’t a revenge movie per se, but a dark, brutal exploration of fate and consequence from one of the world’s most interesting filmmakers. That filmmaker is Korea’s Chanwook Park, who’s created a deeply odd, and deeply personal, cinematic universe unique unto itself
THIRST (2009)
South Korea’s Chan-wook Park does a vampire film, and the results are every bit as crazed, shocking and unexpected as you’d expect from the writer-director of OLDBOY and SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE
2005: The Year in Bedlam
The following encompasses my picks for the year’s best and worst horror films released in the US in 2005