You know “Gwoemul” as “The Host” but every time I bring it up under its Westernized title people think I’m talking about that Saoirse Ronan alien film that flopped. Gwoemul is my favourite EVER mutant sea creature movie and I’m so glad it never got a remake, unlike the American paddlefish and the Russian sturgeon.
I nearly didn’t go into Film Studies today, due to a) tiredness and b) not bothering to read the timetable properly…but eventually I decided to go. After the lecture they showed a subtitled Korean monster movie, and to my surprise (since I don’t do horror very much) I loved it. The first half is something along the lines of Little Miss Sunshine meets Godzilla and is brilliant; the second half is a bit more patchy (but is sure as hell geniunely scary.)
As bizzare as it sounds for a monster movie, I think I liked it for its sense of realism. The leads look and behave like normal people (and are likeable, too, I geniunely didn’t want any of them to die); the first monster attack is very sudden, in broad daylight, and freaked me out like woah; and the survivors of said attack spend at least ten minutes of the film, and probably a good few days in movie-time, being simply shifted around from place to place by ‘authorities’, before finally making a break for it. Just like it would probably be in real life- no-one would have a sodding clue what to do.
Did I mention it’s very funny in places, too?
So yes. Go track it down! It’s on DVD over here…has it just come out in the US?
