The Host

This is a GOOD fucking horror film. Here’s where I found it.

Okay, what’s it about? Why should I watch this?

It’s simple, this is the biggest budgeted South Korean film of last year and the director seems to have spent all the money on a creature feature that revitalizes the role of the creature.

Sure there’s the underlying metaphor for viruses as a method of institutional ineptitude in the face of a natural ecological disaster that it created and a dense social subtext about the role of identity connected to cell phones as a filmic nod at man’s fundamental inability to interface with reality sans technology against an urban landscape, but the real reason you should watch this is because the monster doesn’t hide, it runs at crowds, smacks people across the river, and lumbers after the terrorized citizenry in full view for minutes on end.

This is a realistic believable horror that emerges wet and dripping from the waters of the city river determined to eat people, and at the end of the day I don’t care what language a film is in if it can get me to jump at a critter that doesn’t actually exist. I’d prefer to have this subtitled in English though, the dubbing drives me up the wall and does bad things to the suspension of disbelief when their lips don’t line up with the voices that are translating.

Other than that, this film rocks. It’s exciting to see good horror monsters coming from film production in other countries. This South Korean film has changed the rules, and I’m very curious to see what comes from BONG Joon-ho next.

The fact that director BONG Joon-ho’s flick The Host did not get wide theatrical release in this country is a god damned fluke and it won’t be happening again once the dvd sales figures register with the film industry.
Watch this shit:

Here’s an interview with the director.