The Host

When a young girl is snatched away from her father by a horrifying giant monster that emerges from the River Han to wreak havoc on Seoul, her entire family sets out to locate the beast and bring their little girl back home to safety in South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's big-budget creature ...more

To craft an effective horror comedy is a difficult enough task in its own right; add some heartfelt family drama, poetic political commentary, and a giant formaldehyde monster into the mix, and you've got a serious challenge on your hands. While all signs indicate that a big-budget genre-bender such as Bong Joon-ho's The Host should well buckle under the weight of its own ambition, the filmmaker who explored Korea's first-ever serial-killer case in the stunning Memories of Murder creates a ...more