Sector 7

Something awaits 8,000 feet under the sea off the southern tip of Jeju Island.
 

An offshore drilling rig named the Eclipse is a mega structure stationed at Sector 7, an oil mining area in the vast open sea located off the southern tip of Jeju Island. After a prolonged period of excavation failure, the headquarter gives the order to close down the facility and withdraw all its crews.

Captain Jeong-man is sent to oversee the crews withdrawal from the Eclipse. However, Hae-jun, the equipment manager (played by Ha Ji-won), is strongly opposed to the headquarters order, as she is adamant that oil will be discovered in Sector 7 soon. Motivated by Hae-juns conviction of achieving success in the end, the Captain supports conducting one last drilling exercise.

While Hae-jun and the crew are fully engaged in their final attempt, they lose communication with headquarters, and the crew is overwhelmed by the disconcerting feeling that something is out there.

As bodies begin vanishing one by one, the few survivors need to act fast and fight for their lives in a non-stop battle against a mutant monster from the sea. The monster is originally a small plankton like creatures live deep in the ocean bed. Scientists discovered that they could be the source of renewable energy as when they are set on fire, they keep burning for 30 hours although they have such small body mass. An experiment is soon carried out to inject growth hormone to grow this tiny creature into a big monster all in the name of generating more power from its body. 

Survival looks unlikely, but Hae-jun and the crew are determined to take any chance to get out of Sector 7 alive. 

The movie started off focusing on the team's effort to find oil in the middle of the ocean. The indication of a monster is slowly build up as the film progresses. Overall, stunning visual effects with great acting and action from the lead actress Ha Ji-Won.

The team members of the Eclipse in Sector 7.

Ha Ji-Won in pain after an accident in the oil rig.

Ha Ji-Won faces off with monster.

The Host

The Host is a 2006 South Korean film about a mutated monster kidnapping a man's daughter, and his several attempts to rescue her. The story started off with a South Korean technician taking orders from a US scientist to pour all of the Formaldehyde in the lab into the drain which will be connected directly to the Han River, the main river of Seoul. 

The inspiration of the story came from a local article about a deformed fish with an S-shaped spine caught in Han River. Obviously the chemical poured into the river has at least caused one fish to be mutated into a giant river monster that preys on human flesh.

It was a fine sunny afternoon when people are having picnic by the majestic Han River. It was then that some people spotted a weird creature hanging upside down from the underside of the bridge not unlike a giant bat. The fun afternoon soon turned into a horrific fleeing frenzy when people tried to run away from this disgusting creature that they haven't seen in their lives.

This movie has many ingredients that will make you love it. It has a little about family love, science fiction, comedy, action and horror. Besides its sci-fi nature, this film is also about how family members are brought together from their hectic city lifestyles at a time of adversities. 

It shows how ordinary people could do extraordinary things when forced to the extreme. The film will capture your imagination and it is action packed throughout with some funny scenes inserted in between to lighten up your tense emotion. Overall, a fun monster movie that manages to turn an otherwise mundane city life into a sci-fi extraordinary encounter.

 

The movie is about ordinary folks forced to be monster hunters in order to save their loved ones.

The ugly mutated giant catfish lookalike on killing spree, devouring everyone in his path.

The giant monster terrorizing people of Seoul in a public park next to the Han River.