Gwoemul (The Host)

Our movie pick of the week is The Host, or Gwoemul in it's original Korean. It's a 2006 horror film from South Korea. This is another one of those films that's getting an American remake. Join the cool kid club by watching the original first, and then obnoxiously telling everyone that the original was better when the new one comes out. This is also the highest grossing movie to ever come out of South Korea.

Imdb has a couple of summaries this time around, I'll just give you one of them here.

The film revolves around Park Hee-bong, a man in his late 60s. Park runs a small snack bar on the banks of the Han River and lives with his two sons, one daughter, and one granddaughter. The Parks seem to lead a quite ordinary and peaceful life, but maybe a bit poorer than the average Seoulite. Hee-bong's elder son Gang-du is an immature and incompetent man in his 40s, whose wife left home long ago. Nam-il is the youngest son, an unemployed grumbler, and daughter Nam-joo is an archery medalist and member of the national team. One day, an unidentified monster suddenly appears from the depths of the Han River and spreads panic and death, and Gang-du's daughter Hyun-seo is carried off by the monster and disappears. All the family members are in a great agony because they lost someone very dear to them. But when they find out she is still alive, they resolve to save her.

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Don't forget, Friday night we'll be doing a synchronized viewing. Discuss the movie on twitter with the #WCMC hashtag. Let's start it this week a little later at 8pm PST.