Ah-sung Ko, Hae-il Park, Du-na Bae
A creature emerges from the Han River’s shores for a feeding frenzy upon onlookers. When a young girl is snatched in the melee, her family set off to recover her from the monster that the government ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 24, 2007
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Stats: 10,222 reviews
Flixster Reviews (10,222)
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September 30, 2009Excellent monster movie! Much better than Cloverfield or any other Hollywood blockbuster come to think of it. Great acting, direction, character attention, SFX and a brilliantly written with an unpredictable story, make this a joy to watch. If Godzilla was a metaphor for the atom...( read more)
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September 26, 2009Scream for me Seoul! Gwoemul (or The Host) sees South Korea put into a state of hysteria normally reserved for 1950s b-movies. This delightful creature feature is an interesting Asian take on the monster movies of old, with a lot less stagey shtick and a lot more in the way of co...( read more)
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August 15, 2009Fans of Cloverfield will love this Korean offering. Both have similar premise but The Host is much more humorous and, consequently, much less pretentious.
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July 5, 2009Monster movies fucking rule as do Korean movies so it's no surprise that this film absolutely rocks. After building up the film too much for myself it was great but a bit unsatisfying. Every watch since has been absolutely supreme. The desaturation is stunning and is what I'm all...( read more)
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March 28, 2009Quite pleasant even though not too original. Above all it is very well done, even the special effects recreating the monster are pretty good.
The rest of the movie, the whole anarchy-ecology message is dull. -
November 5, 2009It's really cool too see a movie come out from a genre that was big decades ago and has seemed to fade away in the past couple decades. Now with this film, the monster movie genre is back. Cloverfield was also a monster movie and it even came out around the same time as the host,...( read more)
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October 17, 2009Joon-ho Bong finds a steady balance of drama and humor.
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October 16, 2009Amazing movie. Fast-action, gripping... a much better version of The Cloverfield.
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October 12, 2009One of the best recent international horror movies, but is it really horror or dark black comedy?
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Critic Reviews
April 1, 2007
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
March 16, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Individual stories bog down the film's pace, but The Host recovers quickly to redefine horror for the new millennium. This you have to see. full review
March 12, 2007
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
A perfect mixture of the silly and the grave. full review
March 10, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim
A creature feature of a different stripe. An oddly funny, scary, politically potent tale. full review
March 9, 2007
Claudia Puig, USA Today
What a pleasure to watch an ambitious horror film that not only frightens but also surprises and engages us completely with its artful shifting of tones. full review
March 9, 2007
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
It's Godzilla with a severe case of Murphy's Law, and it is never less than bizarrely delightful. full review
March 9, 2007
Kurt Loder, MTV
In the tradition of its underfunded forebears, "The Host" does have its flat moments, most of them huddled together in the middle of the movie; but it also has true genre fizz and conviction, and some... full review
March 8, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Host works on so many levels simultaneously that it's like getting a film series for the price of one. You must, must, must see this movie. full review
March 5, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
This is a portrait of a country's deepest anxieties, which just happen to be distilled into a mandibled squidlike reptile. It has the tang of social realism. full review
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September 23, 2008Just have seen it on telly. I must totally agree this must be the one of the thousand failures of monster movies, that this one could be shining out and finally have become a MONSTROUS :-) good movie.
Especially the graphics, i turned out to think it should be some squid with no ''monstrous'' looks, but the action and graphics smoothed nicely across my eyes.
Certainly a must for the monster movie fans out there, and lil of drama. :-) -
July 9, 2008awesomme movie!
'the must add to list' film!
bravo korean movies!
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February 4, 2008I seen it a couple of nights ago.
I didn't find it scary, but the one part that scared me is when his cell phone rang in the hospital, the house phone rang at the exact same time. I also found it funny when they were mourning over hyun-seo and they were fighting and all on the floor being extremely histaric and people were taking pictures of them -
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July 29, 2007i liked this movie a lot. i must admit i'm a big fan of asian films and this is one of my new favorites. i hope it's not remade into some piece 0f crap "starring paris hilton"...lol.
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April 11, 2007It's worth seeing on the big screen, especially when the theatre is mostly full, for the greatest effect.
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