The Host
The Host (; lit. "Monster") is a 2006 South Korean monster film directed by Bong Joon-ho and starring Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona and Go Ah-sung. The film concerns a monster kidnapping a man's daughter, and his attempts to rescue her. According to the director, his inspiration came from a local article about a deformed fish with an S-shaped spine caught in the Han River.
Plot
In 2000, an American military pathologist orders his Korean assistant to dump 200 bottles of formaldehyde down a drain leading into the Han River. Over the next several years, there are sightings of a strange amphibious creature in the waterway, and the fish in the river die off.
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| author | Bong Joon-ho |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Seoul |
| director | Bong Joon-ho |
| editor | Kim Sun-min |
| genre | horror science fiction |
| keywords | adopt agent yellow alcoholic american military ammunition amphibian amphibious amphibious creature archer archery attack build capture college graduate creature attack dive fish formaldehyde han river homeless man impale impalement inherit inheritance kill lobotomize lobotomy misinformation news broadcast nothing office building old friend pathologist phone call political activist protest quarantine regurgitate regurgitation river sanitary sewer sewer shotgun sighting sleep snack bar trap united states forces korea virus waterway |
| musicBy | Lee Byung-woo |
| producer | Choi Yong-bae |
| productionCompany | Chungeorahm Film Happinet Pictures |
| publisher | Nippon Herald Films Showbox |
| recordedAt | Seoul South Korea |
| theme | gangster japanese japanese horror kaiju korean horror monster movie science fiction horror south korean |