The Host - first reviews

It's quickly becoming clear that the monster movie to beat this year (or next, depending on when distribution finally happens) is The Host. When you can get this kind of verbage out of Variety (a review from the Cannes festival screening), you know you're on to something good.

Egregiously subverting its own genre while still delivering shocks at a pure genre level, and marbled with straight-faced character humor that constantly throws the viewer off balance, much-hyped big-budgeter about a huge mutant tadpole that emerges from Seoul's Han River is a bold gamble that looks headed to instant cult status.

I can't wait to get my hands on this movie.