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A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
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| Homepage | http://www.hostmovie.com/ |
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| Release Date | 2006-07-27 |
| Runtime | 2h 0m |
| Directors | Kim Hyung-koo, Bong Joon-ho, Jung Young-min, Lee Kang-san, Kim Jun-su, Jung Sung-jin |
| Producers | Choi Yong-bae, Junyoung Jang, Cho Neung-yeon, Kim Hyun-woo, Kim Woo-taek, Katharine Kim, Lewis Taewan Kim, Joon H. Choi, Jeong Tae-sung, Miky Lee |
| Writers | Baek Chul-hyun, Bong Joon-ho, Hah Jun-won, Joo Byeol |
This is a monster horror movie that really tries, to the point where they don’t give a clear view of the creature in the previews, presumably not to ruin the initial shock moment for the viewer. It is in Korean with English subtitles, with a few bursts of English with Korean subtitles when the speaker is American.
The movie focuses on one family’s ongoing battle: not merely against the monster but also struggling against the authorities who want to capture them, suspecting they have been infected with a virus by coming in contact with the creature.
The dialogue is pretty ordinary. I seem to recall a few unintentionally funny moments, though I cannot say for sure that it wasn’t due to the translation. I don’t intend to be hyper critical here: I sort of let the movie wash over me to get to the end, and you may or may not need to do the same.
I found I was a little confused as to the final fate of one of the family members at the end. Perhaps I was inattentive and it would have been cleared up if I backed it up and watched again, but unfortunately I wasn’t quite inversted in the movie enough to do that. I put in my time and that was sufficient unto the day.
— Peter McGinn