The Host

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Call Number: Blu-ray FLC-KOR Host
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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Traverwood Adult A/V 1-week checkout	Blu-ray FLC-KOR Host	1-week checkout	On Shelf
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Blu-ray Disc.
Special features: Deleted scenes; commentary with director Bong Joon-ho; "Making of The host" with director Bong Joon-ho; storyboards; memories of the sewer; physical special effects; designing the creature; bringing the creature to life; puppet animatronix; animating the creature; cast & crew interviews; actor training; gag reel; Korean theatrical trailer.
Kang-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Hae-il Park, Du-na Bae, Ah-sung Ko, Scott Wilson.
In Seoul, an American army doctor forces his assistant to dump bottle after bottle of formaldehyde into the drain. The drain runs into the Han River, the major river running through the middle of Seoul. His only reason is that the bottles are covered with a layer of dust. Six years later, a food cart operator, Gang-du falls asleep every time his dad, Hie-bong, is away from the stand for more than a few minutes. Soon, his daughter, Hyun-Seo returns from school. Then a monster appears in the river and starts to attack the people lounging at its banks. Gang-du and Hyun-Seo are chased by the beast. Hie-bong tries valiantly to save his daughter, but the beast soon captures her and drags her away. They receive a call from the daughter's cell phone and try to rescue her from the large monster.
DVD, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; PCM 5.1 surround, DTS-HD surround, Dolby Digital, 1080 High Definition.
This Blu-Ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Scary but interesting submitted by leehannah on July 20, 2012, 7:33pm I would definitely say that this is a horror movie. Compared to other scary movies, it wasn't too scary but it still is pretty horrifying if you don't like mutated giant monster fish that eats people. However, I did think that it was really interesting and I don't know if I should recommend it.

Not too scary but still scary submitted by jangmikyoung on July 20, 2012, 7:35pm I saw this movie twice, and it was ok. I thought that the animation was pretty good which made the monster look alive, and real. It was really adventurous, scary, and action-packed. If you don't like blood, people dying, corpses, then DO NOT watch this movie. Otherwise, I would recommend this movie to those of you who do like to watch scary movies.

Family movie, but not for the entire family submitted by pepemama on June 19, 2020, 1:50pm Everyone does not survive. It is unfair, realistic, and reminds us of the time we are living in now. I can see how this director later directed Parasite. Loved it. It's not a horror movie. Repeat. Not a horror movie. You won't be scared. It's a family movie where the family is caught in the middle of a monster/parasite/government control movie.