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“The Host.”

I f there’s one thing to be gleaned from the sensational Korean horror film The Host, it’s that our cinema’s most celebrated auteurs need to make more ...

“The Host” is a loopy, feverishly imaginative genre hybrid about the demons that haunt us from without and within.

Extented Reviews from James Berardinelli. Approved as a critic by Rotten Tomatoes. Fantasy novelist.

A horror thriller, a political satire, a dysfunctional family comedy, and a touching melodrama, Bong Joon-ho's "The Host" is also one helluva monster movie.

On almost every level, there's never quite been a monster movie like "The Host." Subverting its own genre while still delivering shocks and marbled with stra...