The Host

Director: Bong Joon Ho

2006 / 120min / 35mm

Part family drama, part monster movie, part social satire, Bong’s big breakout gets going when a beastie bursts out of the polluted waters of Seoul’s Han River and wreaks wanton havoc, kidnapping the daughter of a dull-minded snack bar manager, and creating a crisis among the relations left behind. “A loopy, feverishly imaginative genre hybrid about the demons that haunt us from without and within.”—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times