2000: The Year in Bedlam
The following marks the inaugural entry in a new and ambitious project: an overview of my favorite films from each year, starting with 2000 and working my way backward
BAD GUY
It’s a rare film that contains something to offend absolutely everybody, but BAD GUY manages it. It’s an unlikely love story many will claim—and have claimed—is misogynistic, and they’re probably right
TIME
The 13th film by South Korea’s demented Kim Ki-duk is this typically crazed riff on plastic surgery and schizophrenia
THE ISLE
A stunning horror film from Korea. Stylish, erotic, and often hellaciously grotesque, it plays like a deranged collaboration between Andrei Tarkovsky and Dario Argento
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