As long-standing fans of horror movies, I was looking forward to the new Korean movie "The Host," which supposedly was a mixture of "Jaws" and "Alien". Although it is a much more modest film than these Hollywood blockbusters, it is just as entertaining. In some ways, it is like a number of the Korean films I have seen over the past five years or so. The main characters are members of a darkly comic, dysfunctional family of the sort found in "The Quiet Family," which after buying a country lodge is disconcerted to discover that guests are invariably moved to commit suicide one after another. The plot consists of them trying to dispose of the bodies in the most creative fashion.
"The Host" also has the same kind of distinctly anti-American seen in "Welcome to Dongmakgol," a flick set during the Korean War that features South Korean soldiers making common cause with their brothers to the North against a rampaging US force. full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/the-host/ -- www.marxmail.org
