From the director of 2003’s acclaimed Memories of Murder comes this truly audacious monster movie, now the biggest box office hit ever in South Korea. After a toxic dumping into the river Han, a vicious Nessie-type giant mutant tadpole emerges, terrifying Seoul’s residents, and snatching a teenage girl in the process. As her dysfunctional family wages an intense, low-tech battle against the beast to save her, Bong inserts a hefty dose of pointed social and political satire amongst stunning visual effects (courtesy of the teams behind Lord of the Rings and Hellboy) and unusually strong performances. A cult classic in the making, The Host is both frightening and tragic, yet cut with comic absurdity.