South Korean movie The Host broke box office records at home on its release in 2006. Now available on DVD in the West, it starts off as an entertaining romp featuring a giant mutated creature terrorising Seoul, before taking a number of surprising turns and becoming something far more moving.
The basic storyline is simple. Chemicals dumped in the Han River, which flows through the South Korean capital, create a huge fish-like creature which eventually emerges from the depths and goes on a bloody ...