Virtual Pheromone

I have watched a fair share of movies in my day, building off a solid foundation of TNT classics and AMC dramas with movies found beyond the limits of cable television. I have read about them too, but I have never written a review for a movie. Low-and-behold, our fearless leader Ant wants us to write reviews of the movies we have watched for the benefit of our beloved audience. Well, as a proud employee of this fine little establishment, I am posting my first ever movie review; I’ve made it easier on myself by choosing a movie which is just as frightening and funny as writing this review is to me.
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The Host (Gwoemul)
Directed by Joon-ho Bong
Starring Kang-ho Song, Ah-sung Ko and Du-na Bae
2006

South Korean blockbuster The Host is all about relationship politics, breaking-up and staying together, how it happens and why. Egos do battle, casualties litter the landscape, and the president of this state-of-disaster resembles a giant deformed tadpole that wants to devour you and those you love. Every layer of this film is soaked in satire, from America’s policy of international meddling down to the challenges faced by the Park family. Barely able to function from one day to the next, they must strive together to rescue their youngest member who, loved by all, is now lost inside a giant sewer system with all the flushed away goldfish and one man-eating monster. Your gut will be caught in a tug of war, the line taught in suspense, lurching between laughter and horror, and in the end left fully satisfied; though I wouldn’t go swimming until twenty minutes have elapsed, and not in any body of water in which mutants may be breeding. You bathtub is the safest bet.