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.