FLOODING

It’s always great, after sitting through hours of no-budget trash, to be rewarded by a film of real merit…especially after you’ve spent part of that time viewing something like FLOODING!

5150 ELM’S WAY

After PONTYPOOL this was the finest Canadian horror film of 2009, a consistently surprising, shocking and suspenseful chiller that plays like a particularly demented variant on THE STEPFATHER

TIME

The 13th film by South Korea’s demented Kim Ki-duk is this typically crazed riff on plastic surgery and schizophrenia

TIDELAND

A Terry Gilliam feature that showcases this vital talent at his free-wheeling best

THE THRILL KILLERS

In tribute to the late trash auteur Ray Dennis Steckler, here’s a review of one of his few authentically good films

DREAD

There are some good things in this gorier-than-average Clive Barker adaptation, but it’s a confused and mediocre movie overall

RUBY

One of the last notable films made by the late Curtis Harrington, RUBY is an eccentric EXORCIST wannabe starring Piper Laurie