New Stomp Tokyo review - The Host

Got back from Vegas and immediately turned 'round to hop a plane for Silicon Valley. Haven't seen much of it as I've been sitting Elizabeth while my wife attends the AGU conference in San Francisco, but I did manage to finish and post that review of The Host I promised.

Korea has never had much luck with giant monster movies. First there was Yongary, the bargain-basement Godzilla knock-off from the deep. Then came Wangmagwi, the monster so mysterious that only a handful of Korean movie buffs have laid eyes upon him. Then the awful A*P*E, a cousin to Kong only in that a gorilla suit was employed during filming. Pulgasari was next, the misbegotten minotaur created at the whim of Kim Jong-Il (no kidding!) and finally things came full circle with Yonggary (aka Reptilian), a late-nineties remake of Yongary that managed to be even less pleasing than the original.

Despite this tortured history, I was still looking forward to seeing Korea’s latest kaiju offering: The Host.

Read the Stomp Tokyo review of The Host now.