"If there's one thing to be gleaned from the sensational Korean horror film The Host, it's that our cinema's most celebrated auteurs need to make more marauding-giant-monster movies. The genre is so fabulously elastic! The Host packs a lot into its two tumultuous hours: lyrically disgusting special effects, hair raising chases, outlandish political satire, and best of all, a dysfunctional-family psychodrama—an odyssey that's like a grisly reworking of Little Miss Sunshine. The movie is built like a formula B-grade creature feature, yet the looney-tunes passions of its characters seem to melt and warp that structure before our eyes....This is a portrait of a country's deepest anxieties, which just happen to be distilled into a mandibled squidlike reptile." (David Edelstein, New York Magazine) More at thehostfilm.com
2007, color, 1 hour 59 minutes, South Korea