Host, The (2 Discs)
£17.99
From the director of “Memories of Murder” comes Bong Joon-Ho's THE HOST, fresh from success in Cannes where Variety dubbed it “arguably the hit of the festival”. This fantasy monster movie, which expertly mixes humour and horror, has broken box office records in its native Korea, taking the opening weekend record and the highest single-day admissions ever. THE HOST recently showed in the Director's Fortnight section of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and has been compared in its scare-quotient to both “Jaws” and “Alien”

Gang-du is a dim-witted man working at his father's tiny snack bar near the Han River. One day, Gang-du's one and only daughter Hyun-seo comes back from school irritated. She is angry at her uncle, Nam-il, who visited her school shamelessly drunk. Ignoring her father's excuses for Nam-il, Hyun-seo is soon engrossed in her aunt Nam-joo's archery tournament on TV.

Meanwhile, outside the snack bar, people are fascinated by an unidentified object hanging onto a bridge. In an instant, the object reveals itself as a terrifying creature turning the riverbank into a gruesome sea of blood. Amid the chaos, Hyun-seo is snatched up by the creature right before Gang-du's eyes. These unforeseen circumstances render the government powerless to act. But receiving a call of help from Hyun-seo, the once-ordinary citizen Gang-du and his family are thrust into a battle with the creature to rescue their beloved Hyun-seo.
Special Features
• Making-of with director Bong Joon-Ho
• Monster Gag ReelAudition tapes
• The Characters, Storyboards
• The creature making process: 5 sequences showing the process from animatrix to completion
• Creature stills gallery
• Bong Joon-Ho’s Direction
• The Production Team
• The Staff
• Saying Goodbye to The Host - production team and actors talk about finishing the film Memories of the sewer – talking about the difficulties of shooting inside the sewer
• The film departments - Set design, martial arts, props, agent yellow, bones and bodies, Puppet animatronix
• Designing the creature
• Kevin’s Korean Life – Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Raffertey’s experience of Korea
• Physical Special Effects
• Interview with Assistant Director
• Sound Effects
• Training the actors – archery lessons, gun training etc
• Creature animation – model-making and animation
• Deleted scenes

Reviews
Scary, funny, poignant and political, it's JAWS vis JURASSIC