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That’s where the fun is: making new scares out of classic tropes. Horror fans are sick of seeing the same scares again and again, so we tried to make people think they’re going to be cliched and twist them at the last minute. In Host me and Rob bashed out every single scare and death in 20 minutes: we just did a Zoom and were like “OK, Caroline dies like this Haley dies like this Emma dies like this” and then matched up the features on Zoom.

That mask is from Alice Sweet Alice, which is sometimes considered the first slasher movie: the mask’s iconic, so it’s funny that people think we made it up. And I think if you do that, that’s all you need to have a foundation of what to build your film on. That’s what me and Rob (Savage, director and co-writer of Host) do – we’re just massive horror fans, we just consume so it all day every day, on VHS and every format. For all new horror film-makers, you don’t need film school: you need a library of horror movies. If you know horror and you consume it all the time you know the beats, so when it comes to making it you have a rich tapestry of knowledge. I think the first horror film I watched was probably Evil Dead 2, and that was the point where I thought “horror’s definitely for me – this is my genre”. So from a young age I started getting into horror films and literature, consuming every bit of horror media I could: magazines, short stories, even poetry. I grew up with that in mind, knowing it wasn’t real but also thinking “if I’m going to have to deal with monsters I’d better learn about them”. She said she saw a werewolf in London once: nothing to do with the movie. It all started from the fact that growing up my mum told me that monsters were real: she’s from the Philippines, and they have a rich mythology of monsters and ghosts and how they affect everyday life. With a boutique Blu-ray release out now from Second Sight Films co-writer Jed Shepherd sits down to discuss his Top 10 Scariest Scenes in horror, including one iconic moment from his own breakout hit… Host has been heralded the most frightening film of recent years. See it before the Americans remake it.“For all new horror film-makers, you don’t need film school: you need a library of horror movies” It goes on general release next Thursday. The Host has just screened at the Adelaide International Film Festival, and its author Bong Joon-Ho was there to present it. And like much of South Korea today, a lot hangs on mobile phones. But there's a political parable at work here, and also compassion. The sometimes abrasive, sometimes ludicrous comic touches are very Korean, and very Bong Joon-Ho. Young Hyun-Seo is as touching as a small girl can be, faced with responsibility and terror. There is both courage and stupidity in the Park family as they face the monster. With help from the Weta workshop in New Zealand, from Sydney animatronics expert John Cox, and from digital artists in Korea and San Francisco, Joon-Ho has given us a monster which is startlingly credible.īut he gives us much more. And the Park family must do what it has to get out of quarantine and find Hyun-Seo, whom the monster has stashed, with other victims, deep in one of the sewers under a bridge running into the Han. They want to try a new biological weapon, Agent Yellow. They quarantine all the members of the crowd which first sighted the monster. The authorities, prompted by the American military, decide the creature is harbouring a deadly virus. But when the chips are down, they also co-operate.

And they are indeed under pressure when a giant creature leaps from the Han river one day and seizes Hyun-Seo. Like most families under pressure, they fight. 'I spent my student years democratizing my country,' says Nam-Il at one stage. And there's a brother, Nam-Il, an unemployed university graduate. He has a daugher, Hyun-Seo, a sprightly ten-year-old schoolgirl, and he also has a sister, Nam Joo, a champion archer with a fatal weakness: she always takes too long to fire.

Dad has the crumpled, work-worn face of a farmer or a fisherman. The father runs a noodle and snack stall in a park alongside the Han River, with his somewhat dopey everyman son, Gang-Du. The Park family in The Host are a mixed bunch. Joon-Ho is not into glamorous heroes and heroines. They also had political awareness, and an interest in portraying Koreans warts and all. It's from Bong Joon-Ho, who began his feature film career with a comedy, Barking Dogs Don't Bite, and moved on to a murder mystery, Memories of Murder.īoth these films had a kind of rambunctious wit and scepticism of authority.

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Now to The Host, an energetic and entertaining monster movie from South Korea.

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