The Host R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 24, 2007
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kang-ho Song | |
Performer: | Byun Hee-bong, Bae Hae-il, Bae Doo-na & Ko A-sung | |
Directed by | Bong Joon-ho | |
Music by | Byeongwoo Lee | |
Screenwriting by | Hah Joon-won & Baek Chul-hyun | |
Produced by | Choi Yong-bae | |
Director of Photography: | Kim Hyung-goo |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
The best monster of the 21st century. [Full review in Spanish]
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Cinemanía (Spain)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A smartly made, highly entertaining ride, laced with a strange poignancy that makes it an all-around wonderful movie experience.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A horror thriller, a political satire, a dysfunctional family comedy, and a touching melodrama, Bong Joon-ho's The Host is also one helluva monster movie.
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Chicago Sun-Times
[A] surprisingly stirring drama about family honor and loyalties....THE HOST evolves into that rare horror film that's also inconsolably poignant.
Box Office
A delicious, often darkly funny combination of monster movie and dysfunctional family drama...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/4 --
Rarely plays out the way you expect. Director Bong is careful to deliver the promised scares, but he is also willing to overlook plot formulas to explore his own interests.
Miami Herald
3 stars out of 5 -- [A] darkly comic, bittersweet, tragic monster movie about a family's attempts to rescue a little girl from a mutant creature...
Total Film
Product Description:
Bong Joon-ho's THE HOST is a giddy revelation--an inspired and unexpectedly moving contribution to the monster movie genre. Several years ago, a crooked government official from the United States ordered the dumping of toxic substances into Seoul's Han River. Years later, the hapless Gang-du (Song Kang-ho) is working at his father's food stand along the river, caring for his bright daughter Hyun-seo (Ko A-sung). But one day, a monstrous creature emerges from the water and embarks on a murderous rampage throughout the community, swallowing Hyun-seo whole. Gang-du's bullish younger brother Park Nam-il (Park Hae-il) and sister Nam-joo (Bae Doo-na) condemn him for being such a failure, while their father angrily chastises them for being so cruel. But when Gang-du receives a cell phone call from Hyun-seo, the family must band together to reclaim her. Unfortunately, at this stage, the government has announced that the monster is the host of a dangerous virus, and anyone who has come into contact with it--namely Gang-du--must be isolated. As the monster continues to wreak havoc on Seoul, Gang-du, his father, and his siblings must learn to work together to bring Hyun-seo home. Bong Joon-ho's third film, after BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE and MEMORIES OF MURDER, firmly establishes his status as one of the world's most gifted storytellers. Not simply a monster movie spectacle--though it is certainly that and then some--THE HOST also works as a poignant family drama and a biting critique of America's invasion of Iraq.
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- Sales Rank: 49,260
- UPC: 876964000918
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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